Hiramic Tradition

A Surbvey of Hypotheses Concerning It. Contents: When was the Tradition Introduced into Craft Ritual? Did it Originate in Rosicrucianism; The Hiram of the Biblical Story; Adoram, Adoniram, Abel, Zechariah and Abdemon; Was the Tradition a Variant from the Osirian Mystery? Myths of Persephone, Hecate, Orpheus, Iacchos, Adonis, Tammuz and Mithra; William of Colchester, Roger de Alomali and Reynaud of Cologne; Thomas a Becket and Fulk Le Nerra; Jacques De Molay and the Templars; King Charles I and the Jacobites; Compagnonnage Legend; The Fall of Man and Death of Jesus.