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Knightshade Belladonna
Villore Sec Ops
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.11.14 13:14:00 -
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I have no idea if the book holds monetary value, but it does hold a historical and possibly personal value to many. I stumbled upon this old book in my grandfathers house after he passed away last year, It was with a bunch of other books and had a name written on the 3rd leaf inside before the preface but didn't read much into the name as I figured It was just some regular guys name and adress or something, I found it quite interesting but didn't really bring it back off the shelf once I got it home. It is called Morals and Dogma of the Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite of FreeMasonry prepared for the Supreme Council of The Thirty-Third Degree for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States, And published by it's Authority. When I pulled it out to do some light reading yesterday, I took a look at the original 33d grand commanders picture inside the cover and noticed a few symbols by his name, and it dawned on me.. those symbols were around the name signed in the book. Now no, it is not signed by Albert Pike.
However it is signed
/ John H. Cowles 33d
Sov. Gr. Comdr.
march 13/29
John Henry Cowles was a very influential person in masonry for over 50 years and was one of the longest running grand commanders. Was an honorary grand commander for lodges all over the world.
http://books.google.com/books?id=Q6iOWM2r8n0C&pg=PA657&lpg=PA657&dq=John+Henry+Cowles&source=bl&ots=4VTmtAYvlM&sig=0BHRIMVCKzmnYCZSDmFnEhcRQS8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=T5ijUNu-MrHC0AHCyIDABA&ved=0CGMQ6AEwCw#v=onepage&q=John%20Henry%20Cowles&f=false
a little back ground on him ^^
I believe this was his own personal book, and am glad to have found it.
*edit* link is ****, you have to copy and paste link in browser or it will take you to the original book source page and not the info on him. why i do not know -_- |
Knightshade Belladonna
Villore Sec Ops
Gallente Federation
288
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Posted - 2012.11.16 07:26:00 -
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I am going to get the signature authenticated today. Hoping it is the real thing. |
Knightshade Belladonna
Villore Sec Ops
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.11.16 18:46:00 -
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It is his signature! However there is not enough proof that it belonged to him personally. It may have been given to an apprentice by him , which could have been my great grandfather or it was owned by him. I have not seen anything else that could place my family in masonry , so I still believe it was owned personally by John Cowles. Either way, i am glad to be the owner of it. There is much wisdom in this book. A lot of people give masons crap, and think they plot to take over the world or something. This book is sometimes hard to understand, but from all I can get out of it so far, they are all about the well being of humanity and not in it for their own personal gains. I have only read about 80 pages of it's almost 1,000 pages and it already has me seeing alot of things differently. |
Knightshade Belladonna
Villore Sec Ops
Gallente Federation
288
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Posted - 2012.11.18 03:00:00 -
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Almost 1,200 views and nobody replied... interesting, Makes me wonder how many Dusters are masons. |
Knightshade Belladonna
Villore Sec Ops
Gallente Federation
288
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Posted - 2012.11.28 06:00:00 -
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Vermaak Doe wrote:No offense but the masses are too dim witted to even know about Masons in some cases, I'm not one I just like to know a.little about a lot of things.
I only knew a little bit about them from small bits of history lessons in school ( that really didn't go into detail on how they operate ) and then segments here and there on the history channel. Have been finding out a lot more about them lately, right now I am trying to learn more about symbolism for them. They use quite a few symbols that have a lot of deep meaning to them. |
Knightshade Belladonna
Villore Sec Ops
Gallente Federation
288
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Posted - 2012.12.03 14:18:00 -
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Stile451 wrote:My cousins husband is a FreeMason. He once told me(paraphrasing slightly) "Masons are not a secret society, they're a society of secrets." which may be why so little is known about their internal practices.
hehe, that quote is near the beginning of this book. Seems to be true |
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