THE SECRET TRADITION IN FREEMASONRY by A. E. Waite (Leather Bound 1st Edition Hardcover)

Description

1911 first edition, privately bound in leather, ribbed spine, and gilt foil stamping. Interior is in very good condition with light toning and shelfwear else fine.

A perfect edition to any esoteric library and a must have for the Masonic scholar!

Published by Rebmon (London) 1911

FIRST EDITION. 2 Vols. Quarto. pp. xxxv, 417; vii, 447. leather bound white calf, gilt masonic square and compass, ribbed spine. Illustrated with 28 plates, including photographic portrait of the author frontispiece and small black and white vignette head and tail pieces.

Contains chapters of the influence on Freemasonry of Magic, Kabbalah, Alchemy and Rosicrucianism among other ideas.

Creative and Emblematic Freemasonry; Craft Degrees and Their Connections; Second Holy House; New Alliance in Freemasonry; Quest in Christian Ritual; Masonic Orders of Chivalry Apart from Templar Grades; Templar Grades of Freemasonry; Of Alchemy in Masonry; Of Magical and Kabbalistical Degrees; The Growth of Masonic Tradition; Freemasonry and the French Revolution; Mysteries on their Mystical Side.