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From Pat Deveney's database:
Freemason, The. A journal of Masonic news and lodge activities published with the sanction of the Grand Master of the |
| Cornell University; Wilmington Library; University of Massachusetts, Amherst; BNF; Texas A&M University, etc. | |
| Freemason V1-2 1869 | |
| Freemason V3 1870 | |
| Freemason V4 1871 | |
| Freemason V5 1872 | |
| Freemason V6 1873 | |
| Freemason V7 1874 | |
| Freemason V8 1875 | |
| Freemason V9 1876 | |
| Freemason V10 1877 | |
| Freemason V11 1878 | |
| Freemason V12 1879 | |
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The Freemason is a mainstream English Craft newspaper, and its content is exactly what that implies: Grand Lodge news, lodge and provincial reports, installations, obligations and 'ancient landmarks,' and the charitable benevolence that occupies so much of organized Freemasonry. A naive term count makes it look like an occult journal because 'masonic' and 'initiate' recur more than a thousand times, but those are the ordinary furniture of a fraternal trade paper, not marks of esotericism. Its scattered 'Rosicrucian' references belong to the high-degree architecture — the Rose Croix and SRIA — rather than to the Christian-Rosenkreutz mystical current. It reads as an insider house-organ speaking for the institution of Freemasonry, and it maps cleanly and solely to that topic. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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| Freemasonry and Masonic Orders |
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