Asked how a man may find suitable candidates for Freemasonry if it should not be advertised, Harold Voorhis of the Mystic Brotherhood Lodge in New Jersey wrote:

"By conducting ourselves in such a manner as to make other men, especially young men, want to join us in our work. We must take the teachings of the Craft into our daily lives and set an example for the uninitiated "

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Female authors of books on Freemasonry include Mrs. Blake with "The Realities of Freemasonry" in 1879; Edith Starr Miller (Lady Queenborough) with "Occult Theocrasy" in 1931; and Nesta H. Webster with "Secret Societies and Subversive Movements" in 1924.

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The first published book to include the word Freemason was "A Booke in English metre, of the great Merchant man called Dives Pragmaticus," published in 1563.

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The funeral dirge used in some rituals - "Solemn strikes the funeral chime" - was written by David Vinton (1774-1833), an early travelling Masonic lecturer in the United States. It first appeared in the "Masonick Minstrel" in 1816.

Today, only four of the eight stanzas, set to the music of "Pleyel's Hymn," are generally used. Ignaz Pleyal (1757-1831) was an Austrian composer of popular church music and piano manufacturer.

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In the six volume revised version of historical work History of Freemasonry Throughout the World (1883-1887), Robert Freke Gould (1836-1915) is lauded as the Thucydides of Masonic history. The work has remained a standard of Masonic history since publication. Initiated in Ramsgate in 1855, he was Master of the Inhabitants Lodge in Gibraltar in 1863.

Thucydides was a Greek historian who lived from ca. 460 - 400 BCE.

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The first, and probably best known, American Lexicon of Freemason was compiled by Albert G. Mackay in 1845. The work relies for much of its information on the German Lenning-Mossdorf Lexicon, published in about 1822.

An earlier German Lexicon was published in 1818 by Johann Gaedicke, in Berlin.

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German authors who wrote about Freemasonry, and were Masons, include Gottfried Lessing ("Ernst and Falk" and "Nathan the Wise") and Johan Wolfgang von Goethe ("Wilhelm Meister").

Other famous authors who used Masonic themes include Lew Wallace, Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Burns, Rudyard Kipling, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Count Lev Nikolayevich (Leo) Tolstoy describes the initiation of a Candidate - Pierre Bezukhov - for Freemasonry into a Masonic Lodge in his epic work "War and Peace", published in 1869.

Tolstoy, who had studied Freemasonry, was not a Mason himself.

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Samuel Hemming, the first Senior Grand Warden of the United Grand Lodge of England, defined Freemasonry as being "a beautiful system of morality, veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols."

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