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Daniel Parker's MASONIC TABLET: A History, Decryption, and Facsimile of America's First Cipher Ritual

Daniel Parker's MASONIC TABLET: A History, Decryption, and Facsimile of America's First Cipher Ritual

De Hoyos, Arturo

Hardcover

Secret Societies

Publisher Price: $65.00

ISBN10: 1637235313
ISBN13: 9781637235317
Publisher: Westphalia Press
Published: Mar 7 2025
Pages: 458
Weight: 1.71
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Prior to the early nineteenth century American Masonic lodges didn't have standard forms of initiation rituals. Although they were generally similar, there were occasionally tremendous variations. This began to change with the publication of Thomas Smith Webb's Freemason's Monitor (1797), the first American Masonic guidebook. It offered standardized language to teach some of the fraternity's lessons. The secret initiation ceremonies, however, were taught mouth to ear by Webb (for a fee) to his student lecturers, who in turn taught their own students (also for a fee). Webb's ritual was transcribed in private books, in a one-to-three lettered cipher code. In 1822 the Rev. Daniel Parker printed his own clever cipher ritual, which by-passed the need for private tutors, as a supplement to Webb's Masonic monitor. His Masonic Tablet offered the earliest full description of American Craft and York Rite rituals.

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