Amicable Lodge Research Committee
Amicable Lodge's Colloquium program involves presentations and discussion on the philosophy, symbolism, and history of Freemasonry, as well as the spiritual and esoteric influences on the development and content of our rituals. For now, six of our twelve regular communications, this year, will feature lectures by various knowledgeable Brothers. We will also provide the self-guided reading course below for all who are interested. All members are strongly encouraged to participate.
Amicable Lodge Research and Education Committee Recommended Reading
History, Speculative History, and Reference:
The Genesis of Freemasonry by David Harrison
Coil’s Masonic Encyclopedia by Henry Wilson Coil
Out of the Shadows: the Emergence of Prince Hall Freemasonry in America by Alton G. Roundtree and Paul M. Bessel
Freemasonry in the Thirteen Colonies by J. Hugo Tatsch
Masonic Membership of the Founding Fathers by Ronald F. Heaton
Paul Revere and Freemasonry by Edith J. Steblecki
History of Freemasonry & Concordant Orders by Henry Leonard Stillson and William James Hughan
The Secret Architecture of Our Nation’s Capital by David Ovason
Tribe by Sebastian Junger
Medieval Historical Figures in Freemasonry by Van Gordon
The Secret History of Freemasonry by Naudon
The Golden Builders: Alchemists, Rosicrucians, First Freemasons by Tobial Churton
Revolutionary Brotherhood by Steven Bullock
The Life of Pythagoras by Iamblichus
From Sphynx to Christ: An Occult History by Edouard Schure
A History of the Supreme Council, 33°, NMJ, USA by Newbury & William
Born in Blood – The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry by John J. Robinson
The Builders by Joeseph Ford Newton
Jurisprudence, Etiquette, Administration:
Freemasonry & it’s Etiquette by Campbell-Everdeen
Duties & Responsibilities of Lodge Officers Grand Lodge of MA
Anderson’s Constitutions of 1723 by Dr. John Anderson
The Master's Book by Carl H. Claudy
Masonic Lodge Methods by L. B. Blakemore
Masonic Ritual Memory Techniques by Ralph Omholt
Ritual and Symbolism:
The Craft and its Symbols by Allen E. Roberts
Esoterika by Albert Pike
The Book of the Words and their Hidden Masonic Meaning by Albert Pike
Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung
Freemasonry: Its Hidden Meaning by George Harold Steinmetz
Esoteric Masonry, or the Storehouse Unlocked by Phylotus
The Masonic Initiation by Wilmshurst
Commentary:
The Lost Keys of Freemasonry by Manly P. Hall
The Way of the Craftsman by Kirk Macnulty
Whither are We Traveling? by Dwight Smith
The Builders by Joseph Fort Newton
Dogma and Ritual by Albert Pike
Who’s Afraid of Freemasons? by Piatagorsky
The Brotherhood by Stephen Knight (anti-masonry)
The Theocratic Philosophy of Freemasonry by George Oliver
The Temple of Man by R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz
The Magic Flute Unveiled by Chailley
Scottish Rite Ritual Monitor & Guide (SMJ) by Arturo DeHoyos
Observing the Craft by Andrew Hammer
Esoteric Religion and Ancient Mysteries:
The Emerald Tablets of Thoth, the Atlantean by Doreal
The Kyballion by Three Initiates
The Essential Kabbalah: The Heart of Jewish Mysticism by Daniel Matt
The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly Palmer Hall
Secret of the Golden Flower translated by Richard Wilhelm
Psychology and Alchemy by Carl Jung
Symbolism of the God’s of the Egyptians and the Light They Throw on Freemasonry by T.M. Stewart
Freemasonry and the Bible by H.L. Haywood
The Secret in the Bible by Tony Bushby
An Introduction to Yoga by Annie Bessant
The Mystical Kaballah by Dion Fortune
Esoteric Orders and Their Work by Dion Fortune
The Consciousness of the Atom by Alice A. Bailey
Abdallah or the Four Leaved Shamrock by Laboulaye
Pythagoras and the Delphic Mysteries by Edouard Schure
Hermetic Philosophy and Alchemy by Mary Anne Atwood
Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul by Titus Burckhardt
The True and Invisible Rosicrucian Order by Paul Foster Case
Thinking and Destiny by Harold Percival
The Rosicrucians, Their Rites and Mysteries by Hargrave Jennings
The Book of Revelation by Rudolf Steiner
An Outline of Occult Science by Rudolf Steiner
Novels, etc:
Focault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili by Colona
New Atlantis by Francis Bacon
The Tempest by William Shakespeare