1891/491

Mahhabone: or, The Grand Lodge Door Open’d. Wherein is discovered The Whole Secrets of Free-Masonry, Both Ancient and Modern. 1766

Date:- 1766 -

UGLE Classification:- A 795 MAH - Anti-Masonry & Vindications: So-called `Exposures'

WMLMT Classification:- Ritual

Order:- Craft (& Freemasonry General)

Details

Containing an exact account of all the ceremonies and mysteries belonging to Masonry, from an Entered Apprentice to a Pass’d Master, without any omission of the smallest particular, as authorized and delivered in all good Lodges. Illustrated with proper remarks necessary to explain the whole to the meanest capacity, whether a Brother or not. To which is added the true method of a Free Mason finding out a Brother in public company, with what Degree he belongs to, without being discovered by any but the said Brother. Also a specimen of the secr~t way of writing in Masonry with an explanation of the characters; and several other curious particulars never before made public. Embellished with a beautiful copperplate frontispiece, representing the drawing of the floor of a Lodge, with references explaining the whole, to which is annexed a collection of Mason’s songs, with Solomon—a grand oratorio. Also a compleat list of all the English regular Lodges in the world according to their seniority, with the dates of each constitution and day of meeting. The whole being entirely authentic, and the grandest performance of the kind that has yet appeared in print. The second edition with additions. By J . . . . G . . . . ,a regular Brother of Freemasonry, having mounted the steps of one, two, or three.

A difficult book to get, and though a first edition was doubtless issued in 1766, I have not yet seen a copy. To my mind this work is the most interesting of the singular set 1760—6, because “made up” so much from different parts of its predecessors.

London: Printed for Johnson and Davenport, in Pater-noster Row, and sold by J. Gore in Liverpool. 1766. [Price two shillings.]

Properties

pp. v. 110. 7¾”x4¾”.