Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry

Name: Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry
Author: R. Swinburne Clymer

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Masonic Symbolism and the Ancient Mysteries All Are One · Part 22

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Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry

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357.This policy of Silence and Secrecy has always been a wise one, for the bitter vituperations which have nearly always been showered on the heads of those who were the Exoteric leaders in such Orders, has demonstrated the wisdom which guarded the personalities of the real leaders. Thus the same system of Secrecy is still followed.

About This Reading Edition

Clymer’s complete 1907 account of inward initiation, Masonic symbolism, spiritual brotherhood, and the Mystic Oriental Rite, with 211 explanatory annotations, 80 original notes, an introduction, key words, an outline, and a glossary.

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R. Swinburne Clymer, Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry (Allentown, Pennsylvania: Philosophical Publishing Company, 1907), from the Internet Archive scan ancientmysticori00clym. The supplied reading edition preserves the historical wording, quotations, qualifications, and irregular paragraph numbering.

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Complete historical English text and original notes with the supplied introduction, 211 annotations, 20 key-word essays, outline, 113-term glossary, editorial notes and sources; Diotimos Editions, 2026.

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The 1907 American text and historical title-page emblem are in the public domain in the United States. The supplied 2026 editorial material is published with the site owner’s authorization. The edition supplies no institutional endorsement or assertion that the historical regulations govern an organization today.