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A Dictionary of Freemasonry

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Getting accurate, correct, and truthful Masonic information can sometimes feel harder then pulling teeth. Freemasonry is a subject that alot of people don't know about and fewer truly understand, which makes gleaning useful information difficult. Even talking to some Masons might leave you with more questions then answers after your done.

However Roberet MacOy's work in "A Dictionary of Freemasonry" provides light to anyone seeking Masonic history and information. MacOy's work is part history, part encylopedia, and part dictionary. It starts with a brief history of Freemasonry and lists the terminology in two different volumes using an A-Z dictionary format. It explains the people, places, terms, and symbols that you would ever want to know about and much more.

Every lodge should have a few copies of this work on hand and anyone with an interest in Freemasonry must have one on their bookshelf too. If you doing Masonic research, its priceless, but if just want to learn about Masonry, its informative and easy to follow and provides more information then you can well, shake a stick at, a big stick too.

Having to study about Freemasonry, being interested in all the things it represented, a dictionary was absolutely a good suggestion.
Honestly, I couldn't imagine I would have found so many interesting things in this Dictionary, divided in two parts and full of illustrations.
While working on my book (which only incidentally is about Freemasonry), this Dictionary helped me in more than one occasion.
Very well explained and extremely useful, it is a good companion of another book, Edward Waite's "A New Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry".
If you want to know more, all you have to do is knock on a Temple's door.

i wanted to read this book to see the information contained with in.
overall interesting book for a traveling man.

all aspects of transaction were satisfactory.

Being relatively new to Freemasonry, I was looking for a book to fill the gaps in my knowledge. I found it!

I am amazed at how much this book continues to reveal to me. It's the sort of book that you can pick up every day and learn something new. Alternatively, it can be used as a reference. Yes - it is aged, but still relevant and interesting in my view.

It was written in the nineteenth century and contains the history of the craft, a cyclopaedia of Freemasonry and a dictionary of symbolic Masonry. This book is an incredible source of information and reveals the depth and breadth of this ancient craft.

Some of the words are quaint but it is easy to follow and understand. I recommend it to all Freemasons.

This book, first published many years ago, is a must for any student of Freemasonry and the meanings of its many symbols and ceremonies, according to interpretations of the early years of the last century.

sorry took so long i am new with useing this . shiping was fast and product was great.