The Aldersgate Royal Arch Ritual as taught in the Aldersgate Royal Arch Chapter of Improvement. This new Edition of the Aldersgate Ritual has been produced following the decision of the Committee of the Chapter of Improvement to make the ritual easier to follow by showing the Traditional Exaltation ceremony and the Permitted Alternative Version completely separately.

The most detailed and authoritive text on the true meaning of the Taylors Masonic rituals! The principal contents of this book are the Official Taylors Lectures on the Three Degrees of Craft Freemasonry. These lectures deal with the description of the ritual of those Degrees along with their moral and symbolic significance and are of a formal nature, arranged as catechisms - that is by question and answer form. The text can be studied at home or can be preformed by two or more brethren in open lodge. Much evidence suggests that many sections of these lectures are as old as the degrees themselves. This book adds much to ones enjoyment and understanding of Freemasonry.

1867 a complete monitor with full instructions in the degrees of Mark Master, Past Master, Most Excellent Master, and Royal Arch. Together with the Order of High Priesthood. Historical Introduction, explanatory notes, ceremonies, installation. Masonry.

The Royal Arch of Enoch documents a previously undiscovered historical anomaly: how a high degree Masonic ritual incorporated elements of the lost Book of Enoch prior to the books official discovery in the West in 1773.

This book contains the official ritual of the order of the knights of Malta Ritual.

Letters, documents, ritual texts, and lectures from the Cognitive-Ritual Section of the Esoteric School: 1904-1919 + Documents of a new beginning after the First World War: 1921-1924 (CW 265) To ground his project of founding the new mysteries of Anthroposophy in spiritual history, Rudolf Steiner always sought to unite with and transform where possible the older initiatory streams such as Freemasonry and Rosicrucianism. In November 1905, both Steiner, who was General Secretary of the German Section of the Theosophical Society and Arch Warden of its Esoteric Section, and Marie von Sivers were invited to "join," in a purely formal way, the Order of Ancient Freemasons of the Memphis and Misraim Rite, allowing him to form his own Mystic Temple, Mystica Aeterna, in Berlin. On this basis, Steiner created--freely and out of his own spiritual experience and inspiration--the Cognitive-Ritual Section, or Misraim Service, of the Esoteric Section. "Everything was done as it must be when spiritual reality is to be investigated directly and experienced in full consciousness." Though outwardly similar to existing Masonic rituals, forms, and legends, the spiritual content Steiner gave was new and vital. Especially important was the ritual work, reverently undertaken with a deep sense of responsibility and of the sacramental nature of all human activity. This astonishing volume of rich, primary materials contains letters, documents, ritual texts, meditations, and lectures pertaining to Steiner's teaching of the Misraim Service. Ritual symbols (such as the mallet, the triangle, the right angle, the compass, the rule, the Rose Cross, and the pillars of Jachin and Boaz), as well as the Temple Legend of Hiram Abiff and Solomon and the story of Cain and Abel, all find their place here. The ritual texts are given in full, with illustrations and descriptions of making the ritual objects. There are numerous fictional and superficial books available on Freemasonry, but this unusual volume reveals the deep, esoteric nature of true Masonic rituals and practices and how they form some of the roots of Anthroposophy. C O N T E N T S Introduction by Christopher Bamford Preface to the German Edition by Hella Wiesberger Introduction to the German Edition by Hella Wiesberger 1. The Introduction of the Misraim Service into the Esoteric School 2. The Contents of the Cognitive-Ritual Section - Preparation for Admittance - Ritual Texts - Notes and Parts of Ritual Texts - Explanation of the Ritual Texts - Sketches and Explanations of Ritual Objects - Explanation of the Temple Legend 3. Documents of a New Beginning after the First World War Freemasonry and Ritual Work contains an introduction, a brief chronology of Rudolf Steiner's life, and an index. It is the first complete English translation of « Zur Geschichte und aus den Inhalten der erkenntniskultischen Abteilung der Esoterischen Schule 1904-1914 » (GA 265).

"The purpose of this work is not so much to gratify the curiosity of the uninitiated as to furnish a guide for the neophytes of the Order, by means of which their progress from grade to grade may be facilitated. Every statement in the book is authentic, as every proficient Mason will admit to himself, if not to be public, as he turns over its pages. The non-Masonic reader, as he peruses them, will perhaps be puzzled to imagine why matters of so little real importance to society at large should have been so industriously concealed for centuries, and still more surprised that society should have been so extremely inquisitive about them."-From the Preface.

The Perfect Ceremonies are the lineal ancestors of the official Emulation ritual and lectures.