On Holy Ground

On Holy Ground: A History of The Honorable Order of American Co-Masonry by Karen Kidd, a 2011 paperback from The Masonic Publishing Company, is part of the collection at the Reading Room.

Karen Kidd On Holy Ground from The Masonic Publishing Company

“The Compelling Story of Co-Masonry in North America

On Holy Ground: History of the Honorable Order of American Co-Masonry, the American Federation of Human Rights removes the veil from a great silence in the history of Freemasonry: the story of Co-Masonry in North America. The first book of its kind in Co-Masonry, On Holy Ground traces that history from the founding of the first Co-Masonic Lodge on the continent in 1903 to the completion of the Grand Temple in 2009. Well documented, with hundreds of footnotes and images, many in color and most never before published, On Holy Ground is the truth about this saga finally told.” — back cover

 

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Consider also:

  1. “By the assistance of these lesser lights within us, a man is enabled to perceive what is, again symbolically, called the ‘form of the Lodge,’ i.e. the way in which his own human nature has been composed and constituted, the length, breadth, height and depth of his own being.”
  2. “For it is impossible to-day, as it was impossible in ancient times, for a man to reach the heights of moral perfection and spiritual consciousness which were then, and are now, the goal and aim of all the schools of the Mysteries and all the secret orders, without purification and trial. Complete stainlessness of body, utter purity of mind, are absolute essentials to the attainment of things of great and final moment.”
  3. “Now the man who so develops himself, speedily becomes more conscious of the difficulties of his task, more sensitive to the obstacles the life of the outer world places in the way of the spiritual life. But he is taught to persist with fortitude and with prudence, to develop the highest within him with ‘fervency and zeal.'”
  4. The Tracing Board of Walter Leslie Wilmshurst
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