Excerpt from The Masonic Ladder: Or the Nine Steps to Ancient Freemasonry
In presenting a new volume to the Masonic Fraternity, and soliciting their patronage for it, it is incumbent on the compiler to show wherein it differs from, and claims superiority over, other publications already in the market.
The great number of Masons do not sufficiently discriminate between the doctrines, covenants and aims of the different degrees. The Three, Seven, or Nine Degrees, conferred in the various Masonic bodies, are apt to be jumbled up in the minds of their recipients, as though they were only so many sections of the same Degree. The more striking parts of the ceremony are remembered, while the instructions, which give the rational explanations of the emblems, are forgotten. Something, then, is needed which the brother can take home with him and read, to refresh his mind upon what is, in reality, the only practical part of the Masonic institution.
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