Bristol Masonic Ritual: A Guide to the Oldest and Most Unusual Craft Working in England - Softcover

9781564599841: Bristol Masonic Ritual: A Guide to the Oldest and Most Unusual Craft Working in England

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ISBN 10: 1564599841 ISBN 13: 9781564599841

Publisher: Kessinger Publishing Co, 1996

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Bristol Masonry is unlike anything seen elsewhere in England. In the first degree alone one witnesses unusual ceremonies and hears statements which will surprise even the well-read Mason. Have you ever heard the Nile, the Ganges, the Euphrates, [and the] Mississippi mentioned in an Entered Apprentice degree? How about the immeasurable wilds of the scattered Indian tribes across the mighty Atlantic...the wandering Arabs, roaming tartars, or far distant Chinese? Have you ever seen the circle of swords, the cup of affliction or the writing test given to an Entered Apprentice? It is all here, and much more. As one of the most unusual rituals in the English language, Masons travel from all over the world to witness these fascinating ceremonies. Boasting what is probably the oldest Craft working in England, Bristol ritual retains aspects which are similar to the unpublished Irish workings, but also resembles Continental Masonry in some regards.

Official or no, most English and Scottish rituals are available through booksellers, but copies of the Bristol ritual difficult to come by, as the ritual has previously only been circulated in manuscript and typescript, and are frequently sold by used book dealers for as high as GBP60 per section. By this is meant that the ritual manuscript is divided into sections containing the parts of individual officers, few Brethren having a complete copy of the text. This book collates, for the first time, the entire ritual.

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