The Master Mason’s Handbook by J. S. M Ward

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The Master Mason’s Handbook is a book by John Sebastian Marlowe Ward, first published in 1923. A compact, practical guide, it takes the reader through the Third Degree of Craft Freemasonry — setting out the ceremonies, passwords and signs, the symbolic journey of the candidate, and the lessons the degree is intended to teach. Ward writes in a clear, didactic style aimed at the working Mason who wishes to understand not only the sequence of ritual actions but the moral and spiritual meanings behind them. Short and focused, the handbook emphasises the tracing-board, the symbolism of the raising, and the Christian-tinged moral reflections common to early twentieth-century English Masonic writing. It belongs to a small series of concise handbooks by the same author that were intended as practical instruction for lodge members; despite its age, the book still finds readers today among students of ritual, symbolism and Masonic history.

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