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Lewis, H. Spencer. A Thousand Years of Yesterdays: A Strange Story of Mystic
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Grand Lodge of AMORC, 1974.
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Parchment, Samuel Richard. Ancient Operative Masonry. San Francisco: San
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Rosicrucians
Beeler, Stanley W. The Invisible College: A Study of the Three Original
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