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Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry
R. Swinburne Clymer · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordRecognition concerns acknowledging persons or bodies as legitimate brethren.
- In Ancient Mystic Oriental MasonryThe ethical account connects landmarks with belief, toleration, equity, and fraternity.
- In this editionRecognize can also mean identify or understand in ordinary passages.
- A place to readM.30: … “it is im-Masonic, and subversive of the ancient Landmarks and Genius of Masonry. True Masonry has,” …
Meaning
Recognition concerns acknowledging persons or bodies as legitimate brethren. Landmarks are principles or inherited features treated as foundational to Masonry.
Use in the book
The ethical account connects landmarks with belief, toleration, equity, and fraternity. The rules nevertheless exclude recognition of bodies in which G has no prominent place. The warrant provisions add a separate institutional condition of legitimacy. Clymer’s universal language therefore operates within stated doctrinal and administrative boundaries.
Places to read
- Mystic Masonry · Block 30… “it is im-Masonic, and subversive of the ancient Landmarks and Genius of Masonry. True Masonry has, for ages, held aloft the torch-light of Toleration, Equity and Fraternity. The bigoted sectarian, whoever” …
- Mystic Masonry · Block 35… “the most ancient Mysteries of Antiquity. The ancient landmarks may be discovered in every nation and time. 'Notwithstanding the connection that so evidently exists, ' says Dr. Rebold, ' between the” …
- Rules and Regulations · Block 13… “rule. No Mystic Mason can, under any circumstances, recognize the member of any Masonic Body in which the "G" does not hold a prominent place. In such cases Masonic rule is” …
- Rules and Regulations · Block 23“21. If any number of Brethren shall take upon themselves to form a Lodge without the Supreme Grand Master's Warrant, the regular Lodges are not to countenance them, nor own them” …
In this edition
Recognize can also mean identify or understand in ordinary passages. Lexical counts include those broader uses.
Reading the argument
The entry explains the criteria in this book. It does not decide the recognition of any current lodge, grand lodge, or rite. Nor should the source’s claim to universality conceal its explicit exclusions.
recognize
“recognize” — 10 occurrences in 10 text blocks: I.22, 29; M.73; F.59, 79, 140; S.34, 41; R.13; N.184.
recognition
“recognition” — 3 occurrences in 3 text blocks: M.32, 70; S.36.
Landmarks
“Landmarks” — 4 occurrences in 4 text blocks: I.10; M.30, 35; R.13.
landmark
“landmark” — 3 occurrences in 2 text blocks: S.25; R.14.