New and Improved Edition.

A

LEXICON

or

FREEMASONRY:

CONTAINING

A DEFINITION OF ALL ITS COMMUNICABLE TERMS,
NOTICES OF ITS HISTORY, TRADITIONS,
AND ANTIQUITIES,

AND AN ACCOUNT OF ALL THE RITES AND MYSTERIES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD.

BY

ALBERT G. MACKEY, M.D.

AUTHOR OF THE "MYSTIC TIE,"

Grand Secretary and Grand Lecturer of the Grand Lodge of South Carolina; Secretary General of the Supreme Council, Thirty-third Degree, for the Southern Jurisdiction of the

United States; G..H..P.. of the Grand Chapter of South Carolina, etc.

Φθέγξομαι οἷς θέμις ἐστὶ, θύρας δ' ἐπίθεσθε βεβήλοις.-ΟΡΦ.

"I will reveal to those to whom it is lawful,
But close the door against the uninitiated."
ORPHIC HYMN.

FIFTH EDITION, ENLARGED AND IMPROVED BY THE AUTHOR.

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