Manual of the Lodge or Monitorial Instructions in the Degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft, and Master Mason arranged in accordance with the American System of To which are added the Ceremonies of the Order Past Master, Relating to Installations, Dedications, Consecrations, Laying of Corner-Stones, etc. New, Revised, and Enlarged Edition. Illustrated. Opening and Closing of the Lodge; Forms of Prayer; Blue Lodge Degrees with Symbolism and Explanations; Ancient Ceremonies of the Order, Appendix.
Albert Gallatin Mackey was a medical doctor and Freemason who served as Grand Lecturer and Grand Secretary of The Grand Lodge of South Carolina, as well as Secretary General of the Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States.