A Lewis

The Ancient Scottish Ritual A Lewis

The Ancient Scottish Ritual is the most thorough and rare historic Masonic ritual possibly ever put into print. Parts of the rhetoric are completely unique and clearly come from a period long before the English Union of the Ancient and Modern Grand Lodges of 1813, and even older that the 1760's style found recorded in the famous Masonic exposures such as 'The Three Knocks.'From personal visits to some of the more remote and ancient Lodges found in Scotland, various elements of this rhetoric can be found, which appears to validate its age and authenticity. Equally, in comparing this presentation to other old workings, such as the Dunkerley and Bristol Workings this does appear to offer more than the occasional insight into various parts of Masonic development. Including an pre-Preston style of Tracing Board lectures (not that an Entered Apprentice version doesn't exist). In addition, there is an early version of the Exaltation presentation, and a rare extraction of the old explanation of emblems and a Master Mason jewel, qualities no longer found in English Freemasonry.