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VERY RARE, ORIGINAL FIRST EDITION PRINTING.. "LIGHT ON MASONRY" .. BY ELDER DAVID BERNARD, OF WARSAW, GENESEE COUNTY, NY...PUBLISHED IN UTICA, NEW YORK, WILLIAM WILLIAMS PRINTER...1829 ... Notably this is a very scarce early nineteenth century volume on the Masons and Free Masonry. I could not find another copy in any of the book search engines or international data bases with this date. The Complete Title page of this "bible" on Masonry reads Light On Masonry: A Collection Of All The Most Important Documents On The Subject Of Speculative Free Masonry: Embracing The Reports of the Western Committees in Relation to The Abduction of William Morgan, Proceedings of Conventions, Orations, Essays, &c.&c. With All The Degrees of The Order Conferred In A Master's Lodge, as Written by Captain William Morgan: All The Degrees Conferred In The Royal Arch Chapter And Grand Encampment Of Knights Templars, With The Appendant Orders, As Published By The Convention of Seceding Masons held at Le Roy, July 4 and 5, 1828. Also A Revelation of All The Degrees Conferred In The Lodge Of Perfection and Fifteen Degrees of a Still Higher Order, with Seven French Degrees: Making Forty-Eight Degrees of Free Masonry, With Notes and Critical Remarks. By Elder David Bernard, of Warsaw, Genesee Co. N.Y. Once an Intimate Secretary in the Lodge of Perfection; and Secretary of The Convention of Seceding Masons, held at Le Roy, July 4 and 5, 1828."
Antique leather bound book contains two plates / engravings; both in the front of this work. The first one, the plate of Morgan, (from an original picture of A. Cooley's) is spotted with black ink that has leaked in from the previous early blank page w it appears someone tried to ink out their name, and has a tiny hole at the top; (please see scans), the other is complete with minor foxing and depicts "The Masonic Assassination of Akirop. By Joabert." Akirop is laying on the ground and he has been beheaded. "This scarce volume is the single most important expose of Freemasonry ever published on American soil. Long out of print and difficult to obtain it was a product of the "Morgan Episode" and has since become on of the most sought after books by all students of Masonic ritual. Once dubbed "the Bible of the anti-Masons." Henry W. Coil wrote in his Masonic Encyclopedia that this book gives the Scottish Rite rituals as they were worked before Albert Pike revised them, and indeed, some of its rituals are extremely similar to those in the 1783 Francken Manuscript." The "Morgan Episode"; the key episode was the mysterious disappearance, in 1826, of William Morgan (c. 1775-c. 1826), a Freemason of Batavia, New York, who had become dissatisfied with his Order and claimed he was going to publish secrets about the local lodge. When his purpose became known to the lodge, Morgan was subjected to frequent annoyances, and finally in September 1826 he was seized and surreptitiously taken to Fort Niagara, after which he disappeared. Though his ultimate fate was never known, it was generally believed at the time that he had been murdered. Ritualistic contents include; Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft, Master Mason, Mark Master, Past Master, Most Excellent Master, Royal Arch, Knight of the Red Cross, Knight Templar and Kt. Of Malta, Knight of the Christian Mark and Guard of the Conclave, Knight of the Holy Sepulchre, The Holy and Thrice Illustrious Order of The Cross, Secret Master, Perfect Master, Intimate Secretary, Provost and Judge, Intendant of the buildings, or Master in Israel, Elected Knight of Nine, Elected Grand Master, or Illustrious Elected of Fifteen, Illustrious Knight or Sublime Knight Elected, Grand Master Architect, Knight of the Ninth Arch, Prince of Jerusalem, Knight of the East and West, Grand Elect Perfect and Sublime Mason, Knight of the Eagle and Sovereign Prince of Rose Croix de Heroden, Grand Pontiff, Venerable Grand Master of All Symbolic Lodges, Sov. Prince of Masonry, Chief of the Tabernacle, etc. etc. A very hard-to-find book and exceptionally difficult to find in such good and co... 
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