Title | : | Glimpses of Masonic History |
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Author | : | Charles Webster Leadbeater |
Release | : | 2025-03-30 |
Kind | : | ebook |
Genre | : | Social Science, Books, Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, History, Ancient History, Health, Mind & Body, Spirituality |
Size | : | 1112632 |
Charles Webster Leadbeater was influential early in the development of mixed gender Freemasonry and at the peak of the Theosophical influence. Annie Besant was also a Theosophist and she also introduced Theosophical elements into her Freemasonry, but Leadbeater (together with Wedgewood) went way over Besant in that regard. Leadbeater wrote a lot, but it seems that his bibliography contains just two books about Freemasonry, both published in 1926. The first is called "Glimpses of Masonic History" (later: Ancient Mystic Rites). The second "The Hidden Life in Freemasonry". Combining seership with science, in "Glimpses of Masonic History" Leadbeater presents an absorbing, in-depth, study of the mystery schools of Egypt, Greece, Judea, the Knights Templar of the Middle Ages, and the emergence of Co-Masonry in the twentieth century. |