The Symbolism of Freemasonry

The Meaning of the Masonic Emblems

Albert G. Mackey

• Publisher: Aeneas Press
• eBook ISBN:
  9785486311345
• Year: 2026

What the square, the compass and the apron are held to mean, set out by the man who wrote the standard American lexicon of the craft. Mackey was a physician who gave up medicine for masonic scholarship and remains the authority most often cited by the lodges themselves. This edition is bound with a gallery of 60 plates of painting, among them works by Panini, Turner and Franciabigio, and includes five illustrations restored and coloured for this edition.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• The Symbolism of Freemasonry
• To General John C. Fremont.
• Preface.
• I. Preliminary.
• II. The Noachidae
• III. The Primitive Freemasonry of Antiquity
• IV. The Spurious Freemasonry of Antiquity
• V. The Ancient Mysteries
• VI. The Dionysiac Artificers
• VII. The Union of Speculative and Operative Masonry at the Temple of Solomon
• VIII. The Travelling Freemasons of the Middle Ages
• IX. Disseverance of the Operative Element
• X. The System of Symbolic Instuction
• XI. The Speculative Science and the Operative Art
• XII. The Symbolism of Solomon’s Temple
• XIII. The Form of the Lodge
• XIV. The Officers of a Lodge
• XV. The Point Within a Circle
• XVI. The Covering of the Lodge
• XVII. Ritualistic Symbolism
• XVIII. The Rite of Discalceation
• XIX. The Rite of Investiture
• XX. The Symbolism of the Gloves
• XXI. The Rite of Circumambulation
• XXII. The Rite of Entrusting, and the Symbolism of Light
• XXIII. Symbolism of the Corner-Stone
• XXIV. The Ineffable Name
• XXV. The Legends of Freemasonry
• XXVI. The Legend of the Winding Stairs
• XXVII. The Legend of the Third Degree
• XXVIII. The Sprig of Acacia
• XXIX. The Symbolism of Labor
• XXX. The Stone of Foundation
• XXXI. The Lost Word
• Synoptical Index.
• About the Author