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(More customer reviews)While this book purports to be PA's ritual it certainly is not the current ritual. Some of the words are similar, but it is in no way the current ritual of PA. Either we have changed very drastically in the past hundred and thirty years, or they used a similar jurisdiction's ritual and called it PA's. Personally, I am leaning in that direction having seen a large number of state's rituals. It seems much closer to New Hampshire's than anything else.
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Concerning the Pennsylvania ritual, Albert G. Mackey wrote, "The method of Entering, Passing, and raising candidates in the Lodges of Pennsylvania differs so materially from that practiced in the other States of the Union, that it cannot be considered as a part of the American Rite as first taught by Webb, but rather as an independent, Pennsylvania modification of the York Rite of England.Indeed, the Pennsylvania system of work much more resembles the English than the American.Its ritual is simple and didactic, like the former, and is almost entirely without the impressive dramatization of the latter."This fascinating book contains the complete ritual of the degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft, and Master Mason, deciphered from a work dated 1880.Although modern Masonic historians claim that the current Pennsylvania ritual is the "Antients' work," it differs significantly from the ritual used 100 years ago, as revealed herein.For the first time ever, this old ritual makes available the most unusual ritual ever used in American Masonry.If you have never seen the Pennsylvania ritual, this book will give you insight concerning the nature of the Pennsylvania workings, as the editor compares the old and new rituals.Pennsylvania Masons will be amazed at the changes which have been made in their ritual in the last 100 years.
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