Grand Lodge Ceremonies - Masonic Installation, Dedication, and Funeral Ceremonies for Lodge Officers: King Solomon's Passport — Trestleboard, #5

The ceremonies outside the ordinary stated meeting — laid out for use, not for display.

Installation of Blue Lodge officers. Charges to the Grand Lodge officers. Consecration, dedication, and constitution of a new lodge. Dedication of Masonic halls. Dedication of a monument. Laying a foundation stone. Grand Visitations. A Lodge of Sorrow. The Masonic funeral service. Masonic landmarks. The Tyler's oath. Eleven ceremonies that come up rarely for any single lodge — annually at most, once-in-a-Master's-term for several of them — which is exactly why they belong in a dedicated reference rather than left to memory.

This book has one job: put the actual words in front of the officer conducting the ceremony, cleanly and completely, in the order they're delivered — whether that's an installing officer at a Table Lodge, a Worshipful Master called on for a Masonic funeral with almost no notice, or a Grand Lodge officer laying a cornerstone.

Part of the King Solomon's Passport Trestleboard series, formatted at a size and type meant to be held and read one-handed. Also available as part of King Solomon's Passport: The Complete Ritual — the full seven-title Trestleboard set in one flagship reference edition.