New and Improved Edition.

A

LEXICON

OF

FREEMASONRY:

CONTAINING

A DEFINITION OF ALL ITS COMMUNICABLE TERMS,
NOTICES OF ITS HISTORY, TRADITIONS,
AND ANTIQUITIES,

AND AN ACCOUNT OF ALL THE RITES AND MYSTERIES OF THE
ANCIENT WORLD.

BY

ALBERT G. MACKEY, M.D.

AUTHOR OF THE "MYSTIC TIE,"

Grand Secretary and Grand Lecturer of the Grand Lodge of South Carolina; Secretary General
of the Supreme Council, Thirty-third Degree, for the Southern Jurisdiction of the

United States; G..H.P.. of the Grand Chapter of South Carolina, etc.

Φθέγξομαι οἷς θέμις ἐστὶ, θύρας δ ̓ ἐπίθεσθε βεβήλοις.—ΟΡΦ.

"I will reveal to those to whom it is lawful,
But close the door against the uninitiated."
ORPHIC HYMN.

FIFTH EDITION, ENLARGED AND IMPROVED BY THE AUTHOR.

PHILADELPHIA:

MOSS, BROTHER & CO. 16 SOUTH FOURTH ST.

1859

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by

ALBERT G. MACKEY, M.D.

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the District of

South Carolina.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by
MOSS & BROTHER,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

STEREOTYPED BY L. JOHNSON & CO.

PHILADELPHIA.

ΤΟ

Brother Albert Pike,

OF ARKANSAS,

GRAND HIGH PRIEST, S...P... R... S... ETC.

My Dear Sir and Brother:

The second edition of this work was dedicated to a learned and venerable brother, the Hon. Thomas Douglas, of Florida, as a slight tribute to his many virtues. In offering a third edition to the public, I gladly avail myself of the opportunity to inscribe your name upon its pages, as a memorial of our friendship and a token of my high appreciation of your character as a learned and indefatigable student of masonic literature.

I am, as ever, yours fraternally,

ALBERT G. MACKEY, M. D.