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First published in book form London, 1833. Many reprints.

This electronic edition issued by Celephaïs Press, some-

where beyond the Tanarian Hills, and manifested

in the waking world in Leeds, Yorkshire,

England, A.L. 6005.

This work is in the public domain.

Release 1.01 : 28.05.2005

MANUAL OF

FREEMASONRY

RICHARD CARLILE

Celephaïs Press

Ulthar - Sarkomand - Inquanok – Leeds

2005

EDITORIAL NOTE

This electronic edition of Carlile’s Manual of Freemasonry is based on a

facsimile of an unspecified printing, issued by Kessinger Publishing in Kila,

Montana. A few manifest typographical errors have been corrected. The

publisher’s introduction from that edition is omitted for copyright reasons.

Layout and style from the print edition has been retained, although no

attempt has been made to match the typeface.

Carlile’s exposure was originally printed by instalments in a radical

magazine called The Republican in 1825. An earlier book version was

issued in 1831. Over the course of successive publications, Carlile’s com-

mentaries were revised significantly. Carlile, with a background in working-

class activism and radical publishing, which included several years of

imprisonment for issuing “blasphemous” writings (specifically Thomas

Paine’s Age of Reason ), initially attacked Freemasonry from a materialist

and anti-religious point of view, dismissing the pretensions of the fraternity

to fantastical antiquity and denouncing its social influence as pernicious.

In subsequent editions of the exposure, as Carlile shifted his views on the

subject under various influences, his commentaries were rewritten, firstly

reflecting the idea that Freemasonry derived from ancient solar cults (this

idea perhaps derived from Thomas Paine’s Essay on Free Masonry , but it

reflects a more general intellectual fashion of the period to explain all

manner of religions in terms of solar myths, as reflected in the works of

Jacob Bryant, Godfrey Higgins, and others) and interpreting its teachings

in terms of astronomical mythology (apparently under the influence of

Robert Taylor, a former Anglican clergyman, nicknamed ‘The Devil’s

Chaplain,’ with whom Carlile associated after his release from prison in

1825), and finally emphasising the moral teachings of the craft. (Carlile

later fell out with Taylor and deleted a reference to him in his “introd-

uctory Key-stone to the Royal Arch”; in the earlier version, Carlile tells us

that he claimed to Godfrey Higgins that he and Taylor were the third and

fourth Freemasons in England.)

References for the above :

Andrew Prescott, “The Devil’s Freemason: Richard Carlile and his Manual of

Freemasonry ”; web-published, 2001. Online at http://internet.lodge.org.uk/

“Publisher’s introduction” to an edition of Manual of Freemasonry issued by

Kessinger Publishing, Kila, MT, USA; n.d. but 1990s.

CONTENTS

PART I

Introduction: The Key-Stone of the Royal Arch . . . . . . .

iii

First Degree, or Entered Apprentice. . . . . . . . . . .

SecondDegree,orFellowCraft . . . . . . . . . . . .

ThirdDegree,orMasterMason . . . . . . . . . . . .

PART II

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

TheTauandtheCross . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Ceremony of Installation for the Chair, or Past Master . . . . .

104

ADescriptionofRoyalArchMasonry . . . . . . . . . .

109

Masonic Orders of Chivalry: the Knights Templar . . . . . .

137

PART III

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

160

A Table of some of the Names of the Sacred Scriptures . . . . .

164

MarkMan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

190

MarkMaster. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

195

TheArchitect’sDegreeinMasonry. . . . . . . . . . .

199

GrandArchitect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

205

ScotchMasterorSuperintendent . . . . . . . . . . .

212

SecretMaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

218

PerfectMaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

224

IntimateSecretary,orEnglishMaster . . . . . . . . . .

234

Intendant of the Buildings, or MasterinIsrael . . . . . . .

240

PastMaster(briefdescription) . . . . . . . . . . . .

247

ExcellentMasons(briefdescription) . . . . . . . . . .

250

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