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 Symbolical Masonry, by H.L. Haywood, [1923], at sacred-texts.com SYMBOLICAL MASONRY An Interpretation of the Three Degrees By H. L. HAYWOOD EDITOR OF The Builder NEW YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY [1923]Scanned, proofed and formatted at sacred-texts.com, July 2009 by John Bruno Hare.This text is in the public domain in the US because its copyright was not renewedin a timely fashion.WITH LOVE AND AFFECTION TO MY WIFEEDITH AGNES HAYWOOD Symbolical Masonry, by H.L. Haywood, [1923], at sacred-texts.comTHE M.S.A. NATIONAL MASONIC LIBRARYTHE M. S. A. NATIONAL MASONIC LIBRARY presents, in a series of volumes of uniformbinding and competent craftsmanship, the best results of Masonic research bymasters of the Craft in America and abroad. The LIBRARY will cover every aspect ofFreemasonry, its ritual, its symbolism, its philosophy, its past history andpresent activities and development. Representing all recognized schools of Masonicthought, it will bring the best literature of the Craft within reach of lodges andmembers.Symbolical Masonry
 
by H. L. HAYWOODThe Great Teachings of Masonryby H. L. HAYWOODThe Beginnings of Freemasonry in Americaby MELVIN M. JOHNSONSpeculative Masonryby A. S. MACBRIDEThe Buildersby JOSEPH FORT NEWTONThe Men's Houseby JOSEPH FORT NEWTONThe Philosophy of Masonryby ROSCOE POUNDSymbolism of the Three Degreesby OLIVER DAY STREETWASHINGTON, D. C.: THE MASONIC SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES Symbolical Masonry, by H.L. Haywood, [1923], at sacred-texts.com[p. vii] PREFACEShortly after taking my degrees in Masonry I asked my friend, Brother Newton R.Parvin, Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Iowa, for a book to explain theritual in which I had just participated, so much of which had escaped or confusedme like a foreign language. He told me there was no such book in existence andsaid it was the most badly needed volume in the whole field of Freemasonry. Later,I chanced to report this remark to a group of friends at Waterloo, Iowa,consisting of Alfred E. Longley, Raymond Folk, Louis Fowler, and P. J. Martin, thelast mentioned of whom, now deceased, was one time Grand Master of Masons in thatstate, whereupon these gentlemen challenged me to write such a book myself, andoffered to co-operate in publishing and marketing it after my MS. might becompleted. The upshot of it all was that after engaging a young man to assist mein the work I spent the larger part of one year in the Iowa Masonic Library atCedar Rapids, Iowa, a magnificent collection of Masonic literature founded byTheodore Sutton Parvin and maintained by the Grand Lodge of Iowa. I owe very muchto the unfailing kindness of Brother Newton R. Parvin and to his Deputy, BrotherC. C. Hunt, and wish at this time, and publicly, to extend to them my most sincerethanks. Also I wish to extend my thanks to Brother John H. Cowles, Sovereign GrandCommander of the Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction, for his permission to readAlbert Pike's unpublished manuscript on the ritual of the Three Degrees,[p. viii]which is preserved in the vaults of the House of the Temple, Washington, D. C.,and which, according to Pike's own written directions, can never be published.
 
While prosecuting those necessary researches--an arduous task since I was new inthe field and found no previous books to guide me in my particular undertaking--Ibecame Associate Editor of The Builder, the journal of the National MasonicResearch Society, and later, Editor of its Study Club Department. Because of thisconnection it fell out that instead of publishing my MS. in book form I publishedit in The Builder, or at least all of it except the first few sections, and insuch shape as could be used by Study Clubs as well as by individual students.Owing to the delay thus occasioned the book is just now appearing. It has been sowidely used by Study Clubs, and is still so much in demand by them, that I haveplaced in an appendix a list of questions for discussion, and I have also includedsuch bibliographies as experience has shown to be useful for their purpose.I may say that since its appearance as a serial in The Builder I have entirelyrevised and in many cases rewritten the whole. The Introduction, except for two orthree paragraphs, is entirely new, and so are the first four or five chapters. Onechapter has been omitted.The work undertaken originally as an apprentice task proved so attractive to methat I was at last drawn to surrender all my other duties in order to devotemyself entirely to Masonic research and the cause of Masonic education, and havefound my own particular and quite congenial niche with the National MasonicResearch Society, of which I now have the honour to be Editor-in-Chief.There is no need to tell the veteran Masonic scholar who may chance to perusethese pages that the book[p. ix]was not designed for his uses, but rather for the host of beginners in the field,whose first intellectual interest in the Craft is usually aroused by theircuriosity as to what the work "is all about." I have tried to tell the beginnerswhat it is all about, as clearly as possible, within the limits of space and ofthe obligations to secrecy, and as far as the results of modern Masonicscholarship have allowed.H. L. HAYWOOD.Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Symbolical Masonry, by H.L. Haywood, [1923], at sacred-texts.com[p. x] [p. xi] CONTENTS PAGE 
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