Here is Manly P. Hall's classic work on history's most secretive
brotherhood- reset and collected with two additional celebrated Hall
volumes on occult Masonry.
Freemasonry is the subject of perennial fascination-recently the cover
story of a national newsmagazine, the premise of the movie National
Treasure, and the anticipated basis of a forthcoming novel by Dan
Brown. The twentieth century's great scholar of occult and esoteric
ideas, Manly P. Hall was a Mason himself and nurtured a lifelong
interest in the secret fraternal order, making it the focus of one of
his earliest and best-loved books, The Lost Keys of Freemasonry. In
this celebrated work, he examines the ethical training required of a
Freemason, and the character traits a Mason must build within himself.
Hall's 1923 volume is now reset and made available exclusively in this
new edition, along with the author's two further classics on Masonry:
- Freemasonry of the Ancient Egyptians (1937), which explores the
roots of Freemasonry in the initiatory temple rites of Pharaonic Egypt;
and
- Masonic Orders of Fraternity (1950), a fascinating work of short
history that chronicles the reemergence of Freemasonry in Europe in the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It surveys the lives of Masonry's
modern architects and the secretive organizations that immediately
preceded the brotherhood.
This three-in-one volume features the original illustrations of each
book, for a total of nearly thirty images, including recreations of
scenes and rites from Masonry's unusual history. It also includes a new
index encompassing all three titles.
