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A Quick Guide to Freemasonry

By David Harrison

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  • DESCRIPTION

    A Quick Guide to Freemasonry is perfect for both new and established members or indeed anyone wanting to know about Freemasonry. New members are full of questions and are sometimes afraid to ask established members, thus turning to the Internet to be confronted by an array of websites; some filled with misinformation. This handbook gives the answers to many of those questions, and would be perfect for Mentors in Lodges on both sides of the Atlantic. 

    Written in a simple question-and-answer format, the book provides a brief history of Freemasonry, along with a quick guide to many of the Masonic rituals, Masonic dress and various practices; also covering the roles of the Officers, the Festive Board, toasting and the use of symbols within Masonry. Containing the basic FAQs and the more deeper considerations, this is a perfect guide for those who wish to know more about the world of Freemasonry.

    Dr. David Harrison is a UK based Masonic historian and author of the critically acclaimed The Genesis of Freemasonry, The Transformation of Freemasonry and The Liverpool Masonic Rebellion and the Wigan Grand Lodge.
    He is a regular contributor to Masonic magazines around the world, including Freemasonry Today, MQ Magazine, the Square, Knight Templar Magazine, Philalethes and The Ashlar

    Paperback, illustrated, 96 pages

    184x120mm

  • THE AUTHOR
    David Harrison
    David Harrison

    Dr David Harrison is a UK based Masonic historian who has so far written twelve books on the history of English Freemasonry and has published many papers and articles on the subject to various journals and magazines, such as the AQC, Philalethes Journal, the UK based Freemasonry Today, MQ Magazine, The Square, the US based Knight Templar Magazine and the Masonic Journal. Harrison has also appeared frequently on TV and radio discussing his work. Having gained his PhD from the University of Liverpool in 2008, which focused on the development of English Freemasonry, the thesis was subsequently published in March 2009 entitled The Genesis of Freemasonry by Lewis Masonic. The work became a best seller and is now on its third imprint. 

    Harrison’s other works include The Transformation of Freemasonry published in 2010, the Liverpool Masonic Rebellion and the Wigan Grand Lodge published in 2012, A Quick Guide to Freemasonry, which was published by Lewis Masonic in 2013, an examination of the York Grand Lodge published in 2014, Freemasonry and Fraternal Societies published in 2015, The City of York: A Masonic Guide published in 2016, and a biography of 19th century Liverpool philanthropist Christopher Rawdon which was published in the same year. A compilation of his best articles on the history of Freemasonry was published in 2019 entitled A Journey through Freemasonry.

    In 2017, Harrison’s The Lost Rites and Rituals of Freemasonry was published by Lewis Masonic, which became the first in the Lost Rites series. This was followed by Rediscovered Rituals of English Freemasonry, published in May 2020, and the next in the series entitled The Rite of Seven Degrees is to be published in 2021. Harrison has lectured history at the University of Liverpool and Hope University, Liverpool, and regularly gives talks on many aspects of Masonic history to lodges and conferences all over the world. He was the keynote speaker for the Philalethes Society at the Mid-west conference in Winnipeg, Canada in 2013 and gave the annual presentation to Ars Macionica at the Regular Grand Lodge of Belgium in 2017. Harrison is a Past Master of the Lodge of Lights No. 148 in the West Lancashire Province under the United Grand Lodge of England, and he is also a Fellow of the Philalethes in the US.

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