A Brief History of the Freemasons; The True Story of the World’s Most Powerful Secret Society (2008) 9781845296780
In the popular imagination the Freemasons are often regarded as a sinister secret society practising arcane rituals: Jas
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English Pages 351 Year 2008
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- Jasper Ridley
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- Esoteric, Mystery
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Table of contents :
Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
Chapter 1. The Masons.
Chapter 2. The Heretics.
Chapter 3. The Seventeenth Century.
Chapter 4. Grand Lodge.
Chapter 5. The Pope’s Bull.
Chapter 6. Germany and France.
Chapter 7. English Grand Lodge: ‘Wilkes and Liberty!’.
Chapter 8. Troubles and Scandals.
Chapter 9. The American Revolution.
Chapter 10. The Magic Flute.
Chapter 11. The French Revolution.
Chapter 12. Loyalist and Revolutionary Freemasons.
Chapter 13. Napoleon.
Chapter 14. The Restoration.
Chapter 15. The Case of William Morgan.
Chapter 16. The Lautaro Lodge.
Chapter 17. The Nineteenth Century.
Chapter 18. The New Assault on Freemasonry.
Chapter 19. Freemasonry in the World.
Chapter 20. Modern Freemasonry in Britain.
Chapter 21. Are the Freemasons a Menace?
Notes and References.
Bibliography.
