Take the mystery out of the Freemasons Fascinated by Freemasons? Freemasons For Dummies is the internationally bestselling introduction to the Masons, the oldest and largest ""secret society"" in the world. This balanced, eye-opening guide demystifies Freemasonry, explaining eve…
"Freemasonry For Beginners explores the objectives and teaching methods of Freemasonry and describes its influence on society in the past, present, and future. It recounts the origins of the movement in Scotland and its spread to North America and the rest of the world. Not leas…
This book argues that Chinese voluntary organizations continue to play a significant role in both the established and new Chinese communities in the Diaspora.
Thomas Dunckerley is a late eighteenth-century icon of British Freemasonry; his story is a fascinating morality tale of self-invention and self-deception. Climbing to the highest echelons of the order, and long-accepted as something of a hero, the reality of Dunckerley's life is…
Thomas Dunckerley is a late eighteenth-century icon of British Freemasonry. In one of the first books to provide a scholarly study of English Freemasonry, Sommers uses Dunckerley?s case to examine the changeable nature of personal identity in the eighteenth century and the evolv…
Dispelling myth and reevaluating European and American history, The Temple and the Lodge is an illuminating investigation into the evolution of Freemasonry. Coauthors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh recount the events that led to the strange and sudd…
This is the Mason's response to the misinformation about their brotherhood that exists today.
By the end of the twentieth century, Freemasonry had acquired an unsavoury reputation as a secretive network of wealthy men looking out for each other's interests. The popular view is of an organisation that, if not actually corrupt, is certainly viewed with deep mistrust by the…
The world of Freemasonry exerts a powerful influence on the modern imagination. In an age when perceived notions of history are being increasingly questioned and re-examined it is perhaps inevitable that secretive societies such as the Freemasons find themselves at the center of…
A compelling argument that connects the lost treasure of the Knights Templar to the mysterious money pit on Oak Island, Nova Scotia, that has baffled treasure hunters for two centuries Fascinating occult detective work linking the Cathars, the Scottish Masons, and Renne-le-Chate…