Freemasonry -- Its Origins, Its Myths, and Its Rituals
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The Iconography of Freemasonry
The rituals of freemasonry are not necessarily the things that matter most to all masons. But these rituals are experienced together with informal socialization. There is a sort of ark, you could say, to the ritual which is highly formalized but involves tension and often fear. And that tension is then broken by the an adjourning the ritual and going to drinking, particularly. Most masonic literature that was published, and possibly the majority of all mason literature that's ever been published, is song lyrics. You know, a lot of these songs are sillya.
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