MASONIC MANUAL

A pocket Companion for the Initiated:

CONTAINING THE

RITUALS OF FREEMASONRY

EMBRACED IN THE DEGREES OF THE

LODGE CHAPTER AND ENCAMPMENT;

EMBELLISHED WITH

Upwards of Three Hundred Engravings.

TOGETHER WITH

FORMS OF MASONIC DOCUMENTS, NOTES, SONGS, DATES, ETC.

Compiled and arranged

BY ROBERT MACOY

PAST MASTER, PAST GRAND SECRETARY, PAST GRAND COMMANDER,
GRAND RECORDER, ETC.

REVISED EDITION, 1867.

NEW YORK:

C L A R K & M A Y N A R D,

5 Barclay, St.

(Page 5 and 6)

C O N T E N T S.
I.	Preface	2
II.	Introduction	7
	Charge at Opening	9
	Charge at Closing	10
	Ancient Charges	13
III.	Entered Apprentice	17
IV.	Fellow Craft	40
V.	Master Mason	67
VI.	Mark Master	85
VII.	Present or Past Master	97
	Form of Petition for a new Lodge	98
	Ceremony of Constitution	100
	Ceremony of Consecration	106
	Ceremony of Installation	109
	Ceremony of Laying Foundation Stones	122
	Ceremony of Dedication of Masonic Halls	126
	Ceremony at Funerals	132
VIII.	Most Excellent Master	141
IX.	Royal Arch	155
X.	Royal Master	181
XI.	Select Master	184
	Installation Ceremonies	190
XII.	Order of Priesthood	199
	Installation Ceremonies	204
XIII.	Knights of the Red Cross	235
XIV.	Knights Templars	252
XV.	Knights of Malta	266
	Installation Ceremonies	273
XVI.	Masonic Odes	292
XVII.	Masonic Calendar	300
XVIII.	Forms of Masonic Documents, Jewels	301

Monitors are those manuals published for the convenience of Lodges, and containing the Charges, General Regulations, emblems, and account of the public ceremonies of the Order, are called Monitors. The amount of ritualistic information contained in these works has gradually increased: thus the monitorial instructions in Preston's Illustrations, the earliest Monitor in the English language, are far more scanty than those contained in Monitors of the present day. As a general rule, it may be said that American works of this class give more instruction than English ones, but that the French and German manuals are more communicative than either. Of the English and American manuals published for monitorial instruction, the first was by Preston, in 1772. This has been succeeded by the works of the following authors: Webb, 1797; Dalcho, 1807; Cole, 1817; Hardie, 1818; Cross, 1819; Tannehill, 1824; Parmele, 1825; Charles W. Moore, 1846; Cornelius Moore, 1846; Dove, 1847; Davis, 1849; Stewart, 1851; Mackey, 1852; Macoy, 1853; Sickles, 1866.

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The above pictured monitor contained the Blue Lodge as well as the York Rite Degrees and the Mason who owned it used the business card of a woman who cleaned and replaced Ostrich Feathers on Chapeaus as his page marker.