|
Compiled by R.’.W.’. Gary L. Heinmiller
Director, OMDHS
12 June 2007
New
uploads to the OMDHS pages:
·
Craft Masonry in Onondaga County 1799-1826 (75 pages)
·
Ensign Robert Wilson at Yorktown (see also Links to the books of
Benson J. Lossing below)
·
Freemasons in the Ancestry of L. Frank Baum (Author of The
Wizard of Oz)
·
Illustrious Bro. Orrin Welch and Commodores Perry (a small, but
interesting connection, plus a biography of this early Masonic
luminary of Onondaga County).
http://www.cornerstonepublishers.com/tns.html
The Temple That Never
Sleeps:
Freemasons and
E-Masonry Toward a New Paradigm
by Josh Heller and
Gerald Reilly
Softcover $16.95
Also
available at
www.amazon.com (books)
The two authors, American and UK Masons, present a radical view of
Freemasonry for both today and tomorrow. In addition to their ideas
are those of numerous Internet Masons (E-Masons) from around the
world who, . . . have provided stunning personal insight into the
viability of the Craft in the Internet Age.
This book will challenge your understanding of Freemasonry today
and how it might transform for future generations.
Google Books
– Search Engine
http://books.google.com/
See, for example:
http://books.google.com/books?q=%22freemasonry%22&btnG=Search+Books
which gives 3820 hits for “Freemasonry” .
. . some (1379) with full text, some with limited text available.
For the search term “Freemasons” there are
3600 hits.
One such book available from Google Books,
which may be downloaded is:
The New Free-mason's
Monitor, Or,
Masonic Guide: Or, Masonic Guide. For the Direction of Members
... By
James Hardie, 1818
http://books.google.com/books?vid=0Pp5Ow_HHy0hU8YVZjC&id=NiwiAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=Masonic&as_brr=1#PPR1,M1
Novus Ordo
Saeculorum (NOS) –
Internet Forum, a bit strange but lively discussion
http://www.novusordosaeculorum.com/
PhoenixMasonry
http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/
There active website continues to uploaded
new listings, which are clearly identified on their Home Page.
One recently uploaded is the complete
text, in four volumes, of Denslow’s “10,000 Famous Freemasons.”
Editing Copy & Paste
or Downloads
Regarding the above noted book, if
downloaded these four volumes consist of 2,366 pages of text! There
are ways to download such information so that it is considerably
more user friendly, for example in the present case:
1. Click on Volume I and you will arrive
at the URL
http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/10,000_famous_freemasons/Volume_1_A_to_D.htm
2. On the explorer toolbar, go to ‘Edit’
and click on ‘Select All.’ All of the text & graphics will
turn Blue.
3. On your keyboard, depress the Control
Key and then the “C” (CTRL C) simultaneously. This will
Copy the text selected.
4. Open a New Blank Document in MS Word
and depress the Control Key and then the “V” key (CTRL V)
simultaneously. This will Paste the selected text into the
New Blank Document. If you look at the resultant Paste, you will
have about 565 pages of text and graphics.
5. For your new loooonnnng MS Word
document, go to Edit and select the ‘Select All’ option. All
of your text will reverse image to white text on a black ground.
6. While all of document is thus reversed,
select ‘Arial’ for your Font, and then 8 points
for the Font Size.
7. At this point your new document will be
considerably shorter, but the paragraph spacing will have a
lot of extra spacing. To adjust this, go to ‘Format’ and
click on ‘Paragraph.’ Under spacing, set ‘Before’ and
‘After’ to zero (0) and Line Spacing to ‘Single.’
8. If there are pictures or graphics
in the document, they too may be edited for size, placement and
‘cropping’.
a. To edit a picture or graphic, click on
it and you will see a box form around it with little boxes in the
corners and on the middle of the top, bottom and sides. If you place
your mouse over, for instance, the lower right corner of the moused
picture of graphic, a double arrow will appear.
b. You may then depress the left mouse key
and drag the cursor in toward the center of the picture or
outward, and the size of it will get smaller or larger accordingly.
Also, while the picture is ‘moused’ you may change the position
of it on the page by Aligning it Left, Center or Right, from
the toolbar.
c. If you wish to do more advance editing
of the picture, click on it and go to Format and click on
Picture. If you have not clicked on the picture, the Picture
option will not function under the Format tab. When the Picture
window opens you will see a heading which reads, ‘Crop From’.
If there are portions of the picture you would like to eliminate or
edit, you may Crop your picture from the Top, Bottom, Left or
Right to suit your needs or tastes, getting rid of extraneous
material, ragged borders, &c.
d. If you wish to Imbed or Mortise you
picture into the text of you document, you may, from the same
Format/Picture window, to the ‘Layout’ tab. You must have
‘moused’ your picture for this to function. Under Layout, you will
see ‘Wrapping Style;’ I normally click on ‘Square,’ around which you
will see a blue square appear when you click on it . . . then I
click on the Advanced button. From there click on the Text
Wrapping tab. At the bottom of the new window you will see ‘Distance
from Text.’ If you wish to mortise your picture on the left side
of your page, set the left distance at zero (0) and the right
distance at 0.1”. You may then click on your picture and Drag it to
wherever you wish it to appear along the left margin of your page.
Conversely, If you set the left
distance at 0.1” and the right distance at zero (0), you may
click on the picture and Drag it to wherever you wish along the
right margin of your page.
There are many other options and distances
that you may use, but the above ones will get you started. When put
into text, all of these editing procedures may appear daunting, but
once learned they may be quickly and affectively.
If you are going to upload your text or
pictures to the internet, you may wish to place the pictures in
Tables, which a matter for discussion apart from the present
one.
This will reduce the 565 pages to about
179 pages with a few minor adjustments to the headings and graphic,
so that the first page, with the resized and mortised picture of the
cover, will look something like:
10,000 Famous
Freemasons
by William R. Denslow
Volume I - A- D
Foreword by Harry S. Truman, PGM, Past
Master, Missouri Lodge of Research
Published by Macoy Publishing & Masonic
Supply Co., Inc., Richmond, Virginia
Copyright, I957, William R. Denslow
http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/10,000_famous_freemasons/Volume_1_A_to_D.htm
Reduced
70%, from 565 to 179 pages.
All
four volumes reduced from 2366 pages to 738 pages total.
There are many other ways to experiment
with various settings, but the ones given above outline the basics
from which you may vary as you see fit. With very little practice
you will be able to quickly format documents in many different ways.
The Books of
Benson J. Lossing
These books, while perhaps not considered ‘Masonic’ are well written
for reference purposes
and contained a very large number of excellent engravings.
From a research standpoint, there are a considerable number of
Freemasons represented within the pages of these books,
such as
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~wcarr1/Lossing1/Chap44.html
where there may be found an account, with
links, of the
SURRENDER OF BRITISH STANDARDS AT YORKTOWN
and a very fine engraving of the same.
These standards were surrendered to Bro. Robert Wilson, first
Secretary of Military Lodge No. 93, Manlius, New York.
A more complete account of this may be found on the OMDHS website
at:
http://omdhs.syracusemasons.com/History/Wilson%20Robert.pdf
Lossing - Field Book of the Revolution,
Volume I
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~wcarr1/Lossing1/Contents.html
Lossing - Field Book of the Revolution,
Volume II
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~wcarr1/Lossing1/Contents2.html
Lossing - Field Book of the War of 1812
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~wcarr1/Lossing2/Contents.html
Lossing – The Hudson from the
Wilderness to the Sea
http://threerivershms.com/hudson.htm
---------------
The Life of Brother
Joseph Brandt
by Colonel William
L. Stone. Volumes I and II
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1843.
LIFE OF JOSEPH BRANT AND BORDER WARS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION,
VOL. I (1843)
LIFE OF JOSEPH BRANT AND BORDER WARS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION,
VOL. II (1851)
also by Colonel William L. Stone
The Life and Times of Brother Sir
William Johnson
LIFE AND TIMES OF SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON, BART., VOL. I (1865)
LIFE AND TIMES OF SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON, BART., VOL. II (1865)
REMINISCENCES OF SARATOGA AND BALLSTON (1880)
THE ORDERLY BOOK OF SIR JOHN JOHNSON DURING THE ORISKANY CAMPAIGN
1776-1777 (1882)
Masonic Library & Museum Association - MLMA
An International
Organization of Librarians, Archivists, Curators, & Directors
http://www.mlmassn.org/e-book_library.htm
E-Book Library
(In alphabetical order by Title)
 10,000
Famous Freemasons by William R. Denslow -
Volume 1 "A-D";
Volume 2 "E-J";
Volume 3 "K-P";
Volume 4 "Q-Z"
The Arcane Schools -
Part 1 -
Part 2 -
Part 3 -
Part 4 -
Part 5 -
Part 6 -
Part 7
The Book of Enoch
The Book of the Ancient & Accepted
Scottish Rite by Charles T. McClenechan
Born
in Blood; The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry by John J. Robinson
Brothers and Builders by Joseph Fort
Newton
The Builder by Joseph Fort Newton
The Builder Magazine 1915 - 1930
Carr's
World of Freemasonry - Six Hundred Years of Craft Ritual
Clausen's
Commentaries on Morals and Dogma
A
Commentary on the Freemasonic Ritual by Dr. E. H. Cartwright
A Complete History of
the Ancient & Primitive Rite by R. G. Mc Bean
The Constitutions of Freemasons by James Anderson - 1734 Edition
The Constitutions of
the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts by C.W. Moore
Conversations
on Freemasonry by Henry Wilson Coil, Sr.
The Craftsman, and Freemason's Guide by
Cornelius Moore
The Creation by Albert
Pike
Digest - Index of Morals and Dogma by T.W.
Hugo, G.C.C.H.
"Encyclopedia of Freemasonry" by Albert G.
Mackey, M.D.
The
Enigma of Freemasonry by Ralph W. Olmholt, PM
English Speculative
Freemasonry by T. Stewart
The
Freemason at Work by Harry Carr
Freemasons'
Book of the Royal Arch by Bernard E. Jones
Freemasonry
in the Holy Land by Rob Morris
1801 Edition of Webb's Freemason's Monitor
1867 Macoy's Masonic Manual
The Freemason's
Treasury, 52 Short Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Symbolic
Masonry by George Oliver
General
History of the Order of the Eastern Star by Willis D. Engle
The Genius of Masonry
or A Defence of the Order by S. L. Knapp
The
Genesis of Freemasonry by Douglas Knoop
Gould's
History of Freemasonry Throughout the World -
Volume I -
Volume II -
Volume III -
Volume IV -
Volume V -
Volume VI
The Historical
Landmarks and other Evidences of Freemasonry, Explained
History
of the Ancient and Honorable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons
by Henry Stillman and William Hughan 1906
Volume 1;
Volume 2
History
of Freemasonry by Albert G. Mackey, M.D. 33rd Degree -
Volume 1;
Volume 2;
Volume 3;
Volume 4;
Volume 5;
Volume 6;
Volume 7
The History of Freemasonry by J.W.S.
Mitchell
History of Freemasonry
by George Oliver
The History of
Freemasonry and the Grand lodge of Scotland by W. A. Laurie
The History of the Dionysian Artificers by
Hippolyto Joseph Da Costa, Esq.
The
History of the Imperial Council, Ancient Arabic Order, Nobles of the
Mystic Shrine for North America
History
of the Supreme Council 33rd Degree 1861-1891 by James D. Carter
The
History of the Knights Templar by Charles G. Addison
Ihling
Brothers & Everand Masonic Outfitters Catalog No. 58
The
Illustrated History of Freemasonry by Moses W. Redding
Illustrations of Masonry by William
Preston
Introduction
to the Entered Apprentice Degree by Carl H. Claudy
Introduction
to the Fellowcraft Degree by Carl H. Claudy
Introduction
to the Master Mason Degree by Carl H. Claudy
Is It True What They Say About
Freemasonry? The Methods of Anti-Masons
Its About Time - Moving Masonry into the 21st Century
The Kabbakah Unveiled by S. L. MacGregor Mathers
King James Bible
"King Solomon's Temple" by Jerome Bernard
Frisbee
The Knights of Malta 1523-1798 by R. Cohen
The Kybalion by Three Initiates
Laudable
Pursuit: A 21st Century Response to Dwight Smith
Laudable
Pursuit: The Audio Video version of the book
The
Light of Egypt, Volume II by Thomas H. Burgoyne
Lightfoot's
Manual of the Lodge by Jewel P. Lightfoot, P.G.M.
The Lights and Shadows of Freemasonry by
Robert Morris
The Lost Keys of Freemasonry by Manly P.
Hall
Masonic Initiation by W. L. Wilmshurst
The Masonic Ladder by John Sherer
The Masonic Manual by Robert Macoy,
revised 1867 Edition
The Masonic Manual
The Masonic Research E-Library by Ralph W.
Omholt
Masonic Trials and
Michigan Digest by Henry M. Look
Masonry
Defined by Albert Mackey 33rd Degree - Revised by E. R. Johnston
Masonry
Dissected by Samuel Pritchard (AKA: Pritchard's Exposure)
The
Master's Handbook by Carl H. Claudy
The Meaning of Masonry by Albert Pike
The Meaning of Masonry by W. L. Wilmshurst
Morals and Dogma by Albert Pike
Mormonism and Masonry by S. H. Goodwin
The Mysteries of
Freemasonry by J. Fellows
The Mysteries of Free Masonry, by Captain
William Morgan
Opinions on Speculative Freemasonry
Parade
to Glory
By Fred Van
Deventer
Paranada: Beyond Beyond--Beyond the
Geometry of the Gods; Deciphering Delphi: Breaking the Pythagorean
Code
A
Pilgrim's Path by John J. Robinson
The Pocket History of Freemasonry by Fred
l. Pick
The
Collected "Prestonian Lectures"
Volume 1 1925-1960;
Volume 2 1961-1974;
Volume 3 1975-1987
The Principles of Masonic Law by Albert G.
Mackey, M.D.
Reading Guide to the
Scottish Rite Works of Albert Pike
The Revelations of a
Square by George Oliver
Richardson’s Monitor of Freemasonry
The Right Angle by H.P. Blavatsky
Rosicrucian and Masonic Origins by Manly
P. Hall
Roynayne's
Handbook of Freemasonry - A Complete Manual
Secret Societies of the Middle Ages by
Thomas Keightley
The Secret Teachings of All Ages - Manly
P. Hall
Sickle's
Monitor of Freemasonry
The
Spirit of Masonry by William Hutchinson
The Symbolism of Freemasonry by Albert G.
Mackey, M.D.
Symbolism of the Three Degrees by Oliver
Day Street
Tales of Masonic Life
The Theocratic Philosophy of Freemasonry
by George Oliver
The Virginia Text Book by John Dove
Washington and his Masonic Compeers by
Sidney Hayden
Webb's Freemason's Monitor, 1865 Edition,
by Thomas Smith Webb
A
Well-Spent Life; A Brotherly Testimonial to the Masonic Career of
Robert Morris
Within the Temple of Isis by Belle M.
Wagner
World
Peace Through Brotherhood by Frederic L. Milliken
The Writings of George
Washington by G. Washington
Quatuor Coronati Research
Lodge No. 2076
The Premier Research Lodge. Membership
information or . . . now have their Transactions available on .pdf
CDs.
http://www.quatuorcoronati.com/
Currently available on CD-ROM in searchable PDF format:
Volumes
Available: AQCs 1-40, 42, 44-46, 48, 49, 51, 53, 55, 56,
58-117
Now
Available: Quatuor Coronatorum Antigrapha (QCA) Vols 10, 11,
12
Each CD
comes with a current Adobe Reader installation folder, rules for the
Norman B. Spencer Prize Essay, a letter from the Editor and a Style
Guide for submissions to AQC. The Index CD contains a
combined Index from AQC 1 to 109 and individual indexes for 110 to
117 in searchable PDF format. It also contains an Article Register
of all papers in AQC together with authors' names, dates and
the relevant volume & page numbers.
Rosslyn Templars
Masonic
Articles – An interesting assortment of articles. Be sure to surf
the rest of the website for more interesting items.
http://www.rosslyntemplars.org.uk/masonic_articles.htm
About the Society
Since 1991, the Scottish Rite Research Society (SRRS) has become one
of the most dynamic forces in Masonic research today, pursuing a
publication program emphasizing quality—both in content and physical
form. While it has its administrative offices at the House of the
Temple in Washington, D.C., it is open to all. We encourage anyone
interested in deepening his or her understanding of Freemasonry to
become a member and make the SRRS your research society.
http://www.scottishrite.org/what/educ/srrs.html
Heredom is the flagship publication of the
Scottish Rite Research Society and has been sent annually to members
since 1992. It is a collection of the finest essays on contemporary
and historical Freemasonry emphasizing the Scottish Rite.
http://www.scottishrite.org/web/heredom.htm
------------
If you have a favorite link to a Masonic
URL, related information, or wish to contribute a paper or thought
to the pages of OMDHS,
drop an email to
boazz@twcny.rr.com
------------
Again, enough of
What’s New
for the moment . . . places to go and things to do, but check back
for additions in the near future.
Fraternally yours
OMDHS
|
