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(More customer reviews)"Tracing Boards of the Three Degrees in Craft Freemasonry Explained" is a wonderful and affordable collection of Masonic Artwork in book form that will be a treasure to add to your library. The Tracing Boards (and there are many, most of them in full color) are presented by Brother Julian Rees along with his helpful Masonic commentaries reflecting the insight he has gained after many years of faithful service to the Craft. The tracing boards cover all three degrees of the Craft and are beautiful to look at and contemplate upon.
This book will appeal to the aesthetic nature of all Freemasons. For Masonic Scholars, there is a Table of Contents, List of Illustrations, Further Reading List, and Index. Brother Rees is a well-traveled (highly knowledgeable) British Master Mason.
For example, commenting on the first-degree tracing board, he states: In all regular, well-formed, constituted Lodges, there is a point within a circle round which the Brethren cannot err; this circle is bounded between north and south by two grand parallel lines, one representing Moses, and the other King Solomon... "Now we may recall what we had to say about the mosaic pavement, namely that in one sense it refers us to Moses, the law-giver. Moses received from G-d the ten commandments, the divine law. King Solomon it was who then dispensed the divine law to humankind, so these two parallel lines represent the receiving and the giving of G-d's law to man. In the USA, the ritual pre-dates the union of the two Grand Lodges in England, and there these two parallel lines represent the two Saints John, one of them Saint John the Baptist, the patron saint of Freemasonry, whose feast falls on midsummer day, the 21st of June, and the other Saint John the Evangelist, whose feast falls on midwinter day, the 21st of December".
Enuff said. Brothers, buy this book today. you won't be disappointed. It has my highest recommendation!
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Although all Freemasons will be familiar with the Tracing Boards - painted or printed boards developed in the early years of Freemasonry which are used in Lodges to illustrate Masonic symbols during lectures - little has been published on them. Haunch's book, "Tracing Boards: Their Development and their Designers", has been in print for over 40 years but is primarily an historical treatise. The Tracing Boards are an essential part of the three Craft Degrees in the way they illustrate the allegories and symbols used. There is no publication which adequately explains the Tracing Boards, their use and the meaning of their symbolism, and this book fills that gap in the market. The first part of the book will give a history of the development and use of Tracing Boards; the book then concentrates on explaining the role of the Tracing Boards in the First, Second and Third Degrees, and the specific symbolism of the Board used for each. Detailed descriptions of the Boards are given, particularly those used in the three degrees by the Emulation Lodge of Improvement, known as the Harris Boards, which contain the elements of most of the Tracing Boards used in lodges throughout Britain. The book will be A4-sized and attractively illustrated to show the variety of historical and colorful Tracing Boards throughout the UK.
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