Original by Albert Mackey

PREFACES

To the revised edition by Robert Clegg

Comprising the whole range of the Arts, Sciences, and Literature of the Masonic Institution

By ALBERT G. MACKEY 33°

ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE, SUPREME COUNCIL, SOUTHERN JURISDICTION, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. AUTHOR OF THE HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY, LEXICON OF FREEMASONRY, TEXTBOOK OF MASONIC JURISPRUDENCE, SYMBOLISM OF FREEMASONRY, etc... etc...

REVISED AND ENLARGED BY ROBERT I. CLEGG 33°

ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE, SUPREME COUNCIL, NORTHERN MASONIC JURISDICTION, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, THE MASONIC HISTORY COMPANY, ACTIVE AND HONORARY MEMBER OF MASONIC BODIES CONFERRING ALL REGULAR DEGREES IN THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE, CORRE- SPONDING MEMBER OF MASONIC RESEARCH ASSOCIATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES, ENGLAND, IRELAND, FRANCE, GERMANY, SWITZERLAND AND BELGIUM, AND OFFICIAL REVISOR OF VARIOUS AUTHORIZED STAND- ARD WORKS ON THE HISTORY, JURISPRUDENCE AND SYMBOLISM, OF THE MASONIC INSTITUTION.

This elaborate revision has had the active direction and able co-operation of many Masonic scholars of the world including

WILLIAM J. HUGHAN 32°
ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED RITE, SUPREME COUNCIL OF ENGLAND. PAST GRAND DEACON (ENGLAND), PAST GRAND WARDEN (EGYPT), PAST GRAND WARDEN (IOWA), PAST ASSISTANT GRAND SOJOURNER (ENGLAND), FOUNDER MEMBER QUATUOR CORONATI LODGE (LONDON), AUTHOR OF ENGLISH MASONIC RITE, OLD CHARGES, ETC.

EDWARD L. HAWKINS 30°
ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED RITE, SUPREME COUNCIL OF ENGLAND. PROVINCIAL SENIOR GRAND WARDEN (SUSSEX), PAST PROVINCIAL SENIOR GRAND WARDEN (OXFORDSHIRE), MEMBER QUATUOR CORONATI LODGE (LONDON), AUTHOR OF THE CONCISE CYCLOPEDIA OF FREEMASONRY.

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