Preface
Introduction

I Masonic Symbolism
The Sun. the Lost Word and the Blazing Star. Two Sets of Pillars, and the Ark of the Covenant

II The Blue Lodge and the High Degrees
The Hiramic Legend. The Mark Master Mason. Virtual Past Master. Most Excellent Master, and the Holy Royal Arch

III Esoteric Masonry
The Ancient Mysteries, the Abrahamic Faiths, Astrology, Masonic Ritual Iconography, and Joachim von Fiore

IV Enoch and the Lost Prophet
Enoch, his Books, and Masonic Rites

V The Roots of Masonic Philosophy
The Hermetic Tradition. Renaissance Baroque Imagery. Ars Notoria (the Art of Memory). Newtonianism, the Jesuits, and the Masonic Egyptology of Martin Clare

VI 1717 and the Impact of Ritual
Christ Church, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Deism. Pythagoras. Zoroaster. Melchizedek. King David, and Scotland

VII Meet Andrew Michael “The Chevalier” Ramsay
The Development of the Rite of Perfectionand the Scottish Rite

VIII DeWitt Clinton and the Empire State
The Royal Arch Grand High Priest, the Knights Templar, the Order of Cincinnati, the Erie Canal. Minerva, and Illuminism

IX The Clinton - Webb Ritual Synthesis and Salem Town
The Cultivation of the York or American Rite and Masonic Millennialism

X The United States of Freemasonry
The First Masonic Republic and John James Beckley

XI Seals, Mottos, Colleges and Universities, the Masonic Apron, and Three of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Masonic Symbolism takes Concrete Form in the United States

XII The Hudson Valley and the Vistas of Baltimore, Maryland and St. Louis, Missouri
Masonic Design and Architecture in the New World

XIII Masonic Law and Semiotics
Simon Greenleaf. Charles Sanders Peirce, and Emanuel Swedenborg

XIV The District of Columbia - The City of the Sun
The Masonic Utopian Template

XV So Dark the Con of Man: Masonic and Enochic Symbolism in Cinema
Being There. National Treasures, the Dan Brown Universe, Excalibur, and The Ninth Gate

Conclusion
Plates (Images) not included in Chapter Text
Bibliography
Footnotes
Index