This month we feature ten of our recommended Masonic authors ranging from the early 1900s to the modern day, and we offer our ‘Square choice’ of their books.
You can never have too many books, especially when it comes to e-books – so delve in and find old favourites and new.
Carl H. Claudy
Carl Claudy (1879-1957) was a prolific author of Masonic books, plays, and short talks. He was executive secretary of the Masonic Service Association from 1929 until his death in 1957. He authored over 350 of their Short Talk Bulletins.
The Square’s choice:
Introduction to Freemasonry—Vol. I Entered Apprentice
Introduction to Freemasonry—Vol. II Fellowcraft
Introduction to Freemasonry—Vol. III Master Mason
Carl Claudy’s books can be found here: Amazon
Christopher Hodapp
Author of the best-selling ‘Freemasons For Dummies’, his blog of the same name is the world’s most widely read source of national and international news about the Masonic fraternity.
The Square’s choice:
Solomon’s Builders: Freemasons Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C.
Deciphering the Lost Symbol: Freemasons, Myths and the Mysteries of Washington, D.C.
Conspiracy Theories and Secret Societies For Dummies
(co-authored with Alice Von Kannon)
Chris Hodapp’s books available here: Amazon
Manly P. Hall
Manly P. Hall (1901-1990) founded the Philosophical Research Society in 1934. He delivered over 8000 lectures in the United States and abroad, authored over 150 books and essays, and wrote countless magazine articles. He is perhaps best known for his 1928 classic, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, an encyclopaedia of the world’s wisdom traditions and symbolic disciplines.
The Square’s choice:
The Secret Teachings of All Ages
Rosicrucian and Masonic Origins: Foundations of Freemasonry Series
Freemasons and Rosicrucians – the Enlightened
Manly P. Hall’s books available here: Amazon
Angel Millar
Angel Millar is a writer focusing on religion and spirituality, especially related to the history of Freemasonry, Western esotericism, and martial arts. Born and raised in England, he later moved to Canada and the U.S.A., where he often gives public and private talks on the esoteric and self-development.
The Square’s choice:
The Three Stages of Initiatic Spirituality: Craftsman, Warrior, Magician
The Crescent and the Compass: Islam, Freemasonry, Esotericism and Revolution in the Modern Age
Angel Millar’s books available here: Amazon
Tobias Churton
Tobias Churton is a British scholar of Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, Gnosticism, and other esoteric movements. He is lecturer at Exeter University, and author of The Magus of Freemasonry, and numerous other works.
The Square’s choice:
The Golden Builders: Alchemists, Rosicrucians, First Freemasons
Tobias Churton’s books available here: Amazon
Harry Carr
Biography and image credit: https://www.freemasonry.bcy.ca/biography/carr_h/carr_h.html
Harry Carr (1900-1983) was elected a member of Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076 in 1953. Carr was an honorary member of fourteen lodges in the USA, ten in England and one each in Canada, France, New Zealand and Scotland. In 1982 he was awarded the Grand Master’s Order of Service to Freemasonry, largely because of his many contributions to masonic literature, both as author and editor. His research papers and presentations were hailed worldwide.
The Square’s choice:
Harry Carr’s World of Freemasonry
Harry Carr’s books available here: Amazon
David Harrison
Dr David Harrison is a UK based Masonic historian who has so far written twelve books on the history of Freemasonry and has contributed academic papers and articles on the subject to various journals and magazines which deal with the topic of Freemasonry around the world.
The Square’s choice:
The Lost Rites and Rituals of Freemasonry
David Harrison’s books are available here: Amazon
W. Kirk MacNulty
W. Kirk MacNulty was born in California in 1932. His interest and involvement in Freemasonry spans more than fifty-five years. Kirk’s literary efforts have earned outstanding recognition. In 2008, he was received as a member of London’s prestigious Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076, the world’s premier lodge of research. In 2016, he was recognized as a Fellow of the Philalethes Society for his many contributions to the literature of Freemasonry.
The Square’s choice:
Freemasonry: Symbols, Secrets, Significance
Freemasonry: A Journey Through Ritual and Symbol (Art & Imagination)
Kirk MacNulty’s books are available here: Amazon
Robert Lomas
Robert Lomas (1947–) is a well-known Author, Speaker, Physicist, Retired Fellow of the University of Bradford.
In 1986, Robert became a Freemason and quickly established himself as a popular lecturer on Masonic history before co-authoring the international best-sellers The Hiram Key, The Second Messiah, Uriel’s Machine and The Book of Hiram. Since 2000 he has been writing on his own and has a string of best-sellers including Turning the Hiram Key, Freemasonry and the Birth of Modern Science, and The Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century. He also writes text books including Mastering Your Business Dissertation and specialist Masonic books such as The Secret Science of Masonic Initiation. His latest book, for Coronet, is The Lost Key.
The Square’s choice:
The Secret Science of Masonic Initiation
Freemasonry and the Birth of Modern Science
W.L. Wilmshurst: the Ceremony of Initiation Revisited By Robert Lomas
The Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century
The Lost Key: The Supranatural Secrets of the Freemasons
Robert Lomas’s books are available here: Amazon
Margaret Jacob
Image credit: UCLA
Professor Margaret Jacob (1943 –) is an American Historian of Science and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She has presented her research papers on Freemasonry across the world and her books are considered to be some of the finest treatises on Masonry in the time of the Enlightenment.
The Origins of Freemasonry: Facts and Fictions
The Radical Enlightenment – Pantheists, Freemasons and Republicans
Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe (Society)
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