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In this section you can find some suggestions related to interesting masonic readings, hinted by other Brethren, among the books you can find in a bookstore. Where possible, the English edition is pointed out. If no English edition is available, this is specifically mentioned beside the title. IF YOU WANT TO SEND THE REVIEW OF A BOOK, PLEASE USE THE FOLLOWING EMAIL LINK (POSSIBLY INCLUDING ALSO A GIF OR JPG OF THE FRONT COVER) SEND REVIEW 
 Venzi, Fabio : Mito, Massoneria, Fascismo (IN ITALIAN)
Mirandoliana, Roma, 2001, pp. 118. The four essays of this book only seem heterogeneous, instead they actually are closely related. In the first essay, Freemasonry and Analytic Psychology, the author defines a new and original reading key of the Masonic phenomenon, using the concepts of the Jungian analytic psychology. In the second essay, "Freemasonry and fascism, two different expressions of myth" the author, with adequate clarity, demonstrates the exclusive political use of the myth made by fascism, while opposite seems the Masonic phlilosophy that includes mythological symbolism on the path and the project of individual improvement of the human being. This different concept brings the author to historically analyse in the third essay how fascism could only result in the persecution of Freemasonry. The books ends with: Freemasonry as "Third Pillar" of Society. In it we find the lines of the action and of the role of Freemasonry in the present-day society; this role, in an open society as the Western one, is called by Dahrendorf the "Third Pillar" that collaborates with liberty and market economy. The author shares this purely Anglo-Saxon concept and adequately develops it up to critically analyse how in Italy this concepts still finds opponents in some political and institutional parties. The book is written in a fluent style that facilitates the comprehension of concepts that otherwise would be not easily comprehensible for who is out of the narrow circle of the professors. How to buy
 Knight, Christopher - Lomas, Robert : The Hiram Key
Amazon - EAN: 9781931412759 ISBN: 1931412758 Number Of Pages: 400 The discovery that the most important incantation of Freemasonry is spoken in ancient Egyptian was the turning-point of a six-year quest to find the lost roots of the Order. Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas, both Freemasons, soon found themselves unravelling an extraordinary chain of events that started with the solving of a murder in ancient Thebes and concluded with the deciphering of a strange medieval building on a Scottish hilltop. Their astonishing bestseller The Hiram Key raises questions that challenge some of Western civilization's most cherished beliefs. Do the Gospels of the New Testament describe Jesus, the last claimant to the kingship of the Jews, practising the king-making rituals of the ancient Egyptians? Were scrolls bearing the secret teachings of Jesus buried beneath Herod's Temple shortly before the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 AD? Did the Knights Templar, the forerunners of modern Freemasonry, excavate those scrolls in the twelfth century and then adopt the rituals they contained? And were these scrolls subsequently buried underneath a detailed reconstruction of Herod's temple, on a Scottish hilltop -- where they are now awaiting re-excavation? 
 Jacq, Christian: La Massoneria. Storia e iniziazione (IN ITALIAN)
Mursia - Pagg. 301 - Formato: 14x21 - Anno 1992
 Lennhoff, Eugen: The Freemason
Lewis - F.to 16x24, pp. 256, 1978 First published in German as Die Freimaurer. Traces history of Masonry from 18th-century England through its spread throughout Europe and the USA. Republished in 1978.
 Pike, Albert: Morals and Dogma
Amazon- 2006 The teachings of these Readings are not sacramental, so far as they go beyond the realm of Morality into those of other domains of Thought and Truth. The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite uses the word Dogma in its true sense, of doctrine, or teaching; and is not dogmatic in the odious sense of that term. Everyone is entirely free to reject and dissent from whatsoever herein may seem to him to be untrue or unsound. It is only required of him that he shall weigh what is taught, and give it fair hearing and unprejudiced judgment. Of course, the ancient theosophic and philosophic speculations are not embodied as part of the doctrines of the Rite; but because it is of interest and profit to know what the Ancient Intellect thought upon these subjects, and because nothing so conclusively proves the radical difference between our human and the animal nature, as the capacity of the human mind to entertain such speculations in regard to itself and the Deity. Contents: Apprentice; Fellow-craft; Master; Secret Master; Perfect Master; Intimate Secretary; Provost and Judge; Intendant of the Building; Elu of the Nine; Elu of the Fifteen; Elu of the Twelve; Master Architect; Royal Arch of Solomon; Perfect Elu; Knight of the East; Prince of Jerusalem; Knight of the East and West; Knight Rose Croix; pontiff; Master of the Symbolic Lodge; Noachite or Prussian Knight; Knight of the Royal Axe or Prince of Liabanus; Chief of the Tabernacle; Prince of the Tabernacle; Knight of the Brazen Serpent; Prince of Mercy; Knight Commander of the Temple; Knight of the Sun or Prince Adept; Scottish Knight of St. Andrew; Knight Kadosh; Inspector Inquisitor; Master of the Royal Secret. If you read only one book on Freemasonry, this is it!
 Graziani, Massimo: Massoneria Emulation (IN ITALIAN)
Bastogi - F.to 14x21, pp. 126, Ed. 05/2003 A slim, easy text, which, though being in some points a little too simple and lyric, tries to analyze the meaning of the Rituale we use in our Lodges, going in depth in its history and symbols.
 Chissotti, Riccardo: Moderno dizionario Massonico (IN ITALIAN)
Bastogi - F.to 21x30, pp. 618, Ed. 09/2001 Written by one of the most important members of Esonet, this long boook, though having in some partes a too strong link to some other Italian Obediences, is an interesting attempt to give a complete picture of Freemasonry world, with its symbols, its history and its rituals.
 Graziani, Massimo: L'iniziazione massonica (IN ITALIAN)
Bastogi - F.to 14x21, pp. 94, Ed. 03/2006 With this book, the author shows the track of an external when he asks to be admitted to the Craft. There are many interesting pages about meanings, many dark points explained and many quotes often going back to the most ancient traditions of Freemasonry, all written in an easy language, able to drive attention to any single moment of the Initiation.
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