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The Masters Voice

The Letters & Rituals of Martinès de Pasqually 1767–1774

Published by Lewis Masonic

This critically important volume contains the first-ever English translations of over 30 private letters, correspondences and lectures by the eighteenth-century French Masonic mystic Martinés de Pasqually.

Complete with a foreword by eminent Masonic scholar Marsha Keith Schuchard, as well as commentary and introductory material, this new collection reveals the inner workings and history of the Order of the Élus Coën. These fascinating primary sources will forever change the English-speaking world's historical understanding of this seminal figure in eighteenth-century Masonic history.

Rubriicated Edition / Standard Black and White Edition

Rubricated Edition Title Page / Colophon

Typeset and Layout Design with Rubricated Text Throughout

Rubricated Sigil / Circle

Re-Illustration of Sigil from Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des Manuscrits. FM4 Baylot (15)

Re-Illustration of Sigil for Baron de Tschoudy – Don Martinès Pasqualis, Le Rapport Zambault (1766)

Trade Edition Title Page / Colophon

Trade Edition Dust Jacket Design

The Green Book
of the Élu Cöens

Published by Lewis Masonic

The Green Book of the Élus Coëns is the most fascinating insight yet into the secrets and mysteries of the Eighteenth Century's most Esoteric of Masonic Societies - The Order of Knight-Mason Elect-Cohens of the Universe. This pioneering English translation of the Coën Grimoire known as the Manuscript d'Alger (c.1772) details the inner workings and highest degrees of Europe's first-ever fully formed Magical Order.

Deluxe Colour Edition / Standard Black and White Edition

Custom Design Canon

Typeset and Layout Design with Rubricated Text Throughout

Color Corrected and Restored Manuscript Images

Gold Stamped Cloth Cover / Rurbricated Title Page Design

Deluxe Edition Dust Jacket Design

Emblem Design and Geometric Constriction

Albert Pike's Magnum Opus

Published by the Scottish Rite Research Society

First-ever authorized reprint of Albert Pike’s first draft of the complete Scottish Rite rituals, from 4° Secret Master, through 32° Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret. This valuable work allows us to trace the development of Scottish Rite ritual and philosophy. The lectures, which follow each degree, became the foundation for Pike’s “Morals and Dogma.” This book influenced the development of the Scottish Rite’s rituals in almost every country of the world.

Gold Stamped Binding Design

Rubricated Title Page Design

Gold Stamped Back Cover Emblem of Perez Snell's Ritual of the 14° ( c.a. 1827 )
Re-illustrated with Rectified Geometry and Corrected Hebrew / Greek spellings

Original Emblem from Manuscript / Geometric Construction Used for Re-illustration

Emblem Designs for Lodge of Perfection (4°–14°) and Chapter of Rose Croix (15°–18°)

Emblem Designs for Council of Kadosh (19°–30°) and Consistory (31°–32°)

Cerneauism and American Freemasonry

Published by the Scottish Rite Research Society

The insightful articles in this book focus on a type of Freemasonry that has long been a subject of controversy. Known as “Cerneauism,” it refers to Scottish Rite bodies which derived authority from Joseph Cerneau (1763–1840/45)

Gold Stamped Binding Design

Rubricated Title Page Design

Re-Illustration from Original Seals

Original Seals

Geometric Constructions Used for Re-illustration

The Most Holy Trinosophia

Published by Rose Circle Books

Composed in French during the late eighteenth-century, The Most Holy Trinosophia (or The Most Holy Threefold Wisdom) is an occult masterpiece and one of the most challenging of all esoteric manuscripts. The handwritten manuscript is divided into twelve sections, each adorned with beautiful watercolour illustrations, reproduced here in full colour.

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Manuscript Restoration Examples

Manuscript Restoration - Poor Resolution Image Enlargement

Manuscript Restoration - Detail Recovery, Color Fidelity, Paper Texture Removal

A Templar Monitor

Published by Rose Circle Books for the Knights Templar Eye Foundation

In the late 1880s, Sir Knight George Cooper Connor of Tennessee made a florid, handwritten transcript of the rituals of the Masonic Knights Templar Orders of the Red Cross, Malta and the Temple for use in the Grand Commandery of Tennessee. His manuscript later became a basis for the development of the adopted Templar Orders we know today.

Binding Design

Rubricated Title Page Design

Color Corrected and Restored Manuscript Image / Typeset Transcription

Re-illustration / Color Corrected and Restored Manuscript Image

Maltese Cross Design for Cover / Geometric Construction

Re-illustration of Jewels Based on Manuscript Versions

Reprints of Old Rituals

Published by the Scottish Rite Research Society

In 1879 the Supreme Council printed a collection of six old rituals, of significant historical importance.This extremely interesting work includes a complete facsimile reprint of the complete collection:

The Wigan Ritual of the Early Grand Encampment - Grade, Mark Mason, Passed Master, and Royal Arch, Rite Ancien Maçonnerie d`York - Knights Templar, former English Ritual - Grand Maitre Ecossais or Scottish Elder Master and Knight of St. Andrew - Old Ceremony of Royal Arch Exaltation.