The Ceremony of Initiation: Analysis & Commentary
Foundations of Freemasonry Series
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W. L. Wilmshurst
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This manual of instruction is for the benefit of Masons who have recently taken their First Degree, and for that of other brethren wishful to understand the purpose and the meaning of the initiation ceremony and to draw aside the veil of allegory and symbolism in which the initiation ceremony is clothed, and to reveal its spirit and subsurface significance.
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