New: Together With a Historic Sketch of the So-Called Revival of Freemasonry in 1717, and Other Interesting and Instructive Matter; Edition of the ... Rite of Freemasonry (Classic Reprint)

In presenting this NEW EDITION OP A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE OF FREEMASONRY to his Brethren of the Craft, a few prefatory remarks the Author deems to be necessary at this time. The first edition prepared by him was under the auspices of the Grand Consistory of theS tate of California in the month of July, 1885, at which time he was its Deputy and Grand Lecturer as also theD eputy of 111. Bro. Charles F. Brown, 33 ,one of the Active I nspectors-G eneral for thisS tate. Some fifteen hundred copies were then printed and distributed gratuitously among theB rethren of the A. A. S. Eite in particular, and theB lue Lodges throughout theS tate of California in general, the Grand Consistory afterwards paying for the printing and the postage cost of distribution, but no compensation was made to the writer for the compiling of the work, which had been prepared after a great deal of time expended in reading and condensing of the history of the Rite for the object had in view. Being printed only in pamphlet form, the most of the first edition was soon lost and destroyed. Many of theB rethren having manifested their desire to have the same reproduced, the writer had already undertaken the task and it was well under way, when he was written to by the agent of publishers in theE ast, and solicited to prepare a portion of a new and large Masonic work of a more general and comprehensive character, which will soon make its appearance. In that work, will appear an abridged portion of this, and of the first edition issued in July 1885, which the writer has supplied to those publishers for that work, but not exclusively, he retaining the original production prepared by him in 1885, as also the present work enlarged and expanded with notes and additional matter, which the limited space allotted-in the forthcoming publication by theE astern publishers
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