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General Ahiman Rezon, by Daniel Sickels, [1868], at sacred-texts.com


THE

GENERAL AHIMAN REZON

AND

FREEMASON'S GUIDE:

CONTAINING
MONITORIAL INSTRUCTIONS
IN THE DEGREES OF
ENTERED APPRENTICE, FELLOW-CRAFT AND MASTER MASON,
WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES, EMENDATIONS AND LECTURES.
TOGETHER WITH THE
CEREMONIES OF CONSECRATION AND DEDICATION OF NEW LODGES,
INSTALLATION OF GRAND AND SUBORDINATE OFFICERS, LAYING
FOUNDATION STONES, DEDICATION OF MASONIC HALLS,
GRAND VISITATIONS, BURIAL SERVICES, REGULATIONS
FOR PROCESSIONS, MASONIC CALENDAR, ETC.
TO WHICH ARE ADDED A RITUAL FOR A

LODGE OF SORROW,

AND THE CEREMONIES OF

CONSECRATING MASONIC CEMETERIES.

ALSO, AN APPENDIX, WITH THE

forms of Masonic Documents, Masonic Trials, etc.

BY DANIEL SICKELS, 33°.,

AUTHOR OF "THE FREEMASON'S MONITOR," SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE SUPREME
COUNCIL, NORTHERN JURISDICTION, ETC.

NEW YORK:

MASONIC PUBLISHING AND MANUFACTURING CO.,

482 BROOME STREET.

[1868]

Scanned, proofed and formatted at sacred-texts.com, May 2007, by John Bruno Hare. This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was published prior to 1923.

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"I should say much more if I were not afraid of being heard by those who are uninitiated; because men are apt to deride what they do not understand; and the ignorant, not being aware of the weakness of their minds, condemn what they ought most to Venerate."—CYRIL, OF ALEXANDRIA.

ENTERED according to act of Congress, in the year 1865, by

THE MASONIC PUBLISHING AND MANUFACTURING CO.,

la the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern

District of New York.

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Portrait of Daniel Sickels
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Portrait of Daniel Sickels

TO

JOHN W. SIMONS,

PAST GRAND MASTER OF MASONS AND KNIGHTS TEMPLAR OF NEW YORK;
GRAND TREASURER OF THE GRAND ENCAMPMENT OF THE UNITED STATES;
GRAND TREASURER OF THE GRAND LODGE OF NEW YORK;
SOVEREIGN GRAND INSPECTOR GENERAL, ETC., ETC.,

THIS BOOK IS RESPECTFULLY

Dedicated

AS AN APPRECIATION OF HIS INDEFATIGABLE LABORS IN
THE CAUSE OF THE
SCIENCE OF FREEMASONRY,
AND AS A
SLIGHT TESTIMONIAL OF THE ESTEEM AND FRIENDSHIP ENTERTAINED
FOR HIM BY THE

                                        AUTHOR.


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