Reading List for the Inquiring Mason 1
S. A. Feite
searching outside the bounds of mainstream Masonry. This is not to endorse
that I believe every word in each one of these books, but each contains
something worthwhile, some more than others, some less.
Those which are starred (***) are 'must reads'.
Steve Feite
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"Show me the stone which the builders have rejected. That one is the I
AM there. Lift up the stone, and you will find me there."
--The Gospel of Thomas v.66
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An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian
Symbolical Philosophy: Being an Interpretation of the Secret Teachings
concealed within the Rituals, Allegories and Mysteries of All Ages by Manly
P. Hall, Illus. by J. Augustus Knapp***
The Temple and the Lodge by Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln***
Sacred Geometry by Robert Lawlor***
Morals & Dogma by Albert Pike (more reference material than a 'good read')
Arcane Schools by John Yarker (complete text is available in electronic
form)
Meditation and the Bible /and/ Meditation and Kaballah by Aryeh Kaplan***
Adam and the Kabbalistic Tree by Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi
777 and other Qabalistic Writings of Aleister Crowley
The Greek Qabalah by Kieren Barry
The Tree of Life by Israel Regardie (don't read this one until you have a
firm understanding of the Qabala)
The Mystical Qabalah by Dion Fortune***
Fulcanelli: Master Alchemist, Le Mystere des Cathedrales trans. from the
French by Mary Sworder
Parsival by Wolfram von Eschenbach***
The Geometry of Art and Life by Matila Ghyka
Iamblichus on the Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans and Assyrians trans.
from the Greek by Thomas Taylor***
The Theoretic Arithmetic of the Pythagoreans by Thomas Taylor
The Nag Hammadi Library James M Robinson, General Editor***
Adam and Eve and the Serpent by Elaine Pagels***
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels***
A Note on Genesis by Alan Bennett
The Templar Revelation: Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ by
Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince***
Born In Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry by John J. Robinson***
Dungeon, Fire and Sword by John J. Robinson
The Knights Templar by John J. Robinson
The Hidden Life in Freemasonry by C.W. Leadbeater
Of the Grail and the Templars and a True Discovery of America: The Sword and
the Grail by Andrew Sinclair (Sinclair is a lineal descendant of the
Scottish Royal family who were the guardians of Freemasonry)***
The New View Over Atlantis by John Michell***
The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh***
In Search of the Holy Grail and the Precious Blood by Ean and Deike Begg
The Atlas of the Crusades Edited by Jonathon Riley-Smith*** (expensive)
The Middle Pillar by Israel Regardie***
The Widows Son by Robert Anton Wilson (good historic fiction)
Stalking the Wild Pendulum: On the Mechanics of Consciousness by Itzhak
Bentov***
The Holy Grail by Norma Lorre Goodrich
The Cult of the Black Virgin by Ian Begg***
The Golden Dawn by Israel Regardie***
The Robe and the Ring by Melita Denning and Osbourne Phillips*** (I have a
scanned portion of one of the best articles in this on Alchemy)
Kabbalah: Tradition of Hidden Knowledge by Z'ev Ben Shimon Halevi
(beautifully illustrated)
Freemasonry: A Journey through Ritual and Symbol by W. Kirk MacNulty
(beautifully illustrated)
Åke Eldberg
may be of interest to Masons, it should be pointed out that
some of them are highly questionable from a historic and
scientific point of view.
Åke Eldberg
MM