Learning Masonic Ritual - The Simple, Systematic and Successful Way to Master The Work: Freemasons Guide to Ritual

The book is written well but priced very high. Ideal price would be around Rs.500/-.

Excellent

It’s a very good read

Very in-depth book. I was struggling to find a method for remembering ritual, which was very frustrating. I went to a seminar where the author gave a very good, detailed speech, on the best ways to remember masonic ritual. I found this book very informative, and have now gone on to a much better way of containing the details I need to store in my head, in order to have a great, rather than good meeting. Many thanks.

A reasonably short read that presents a memorization system that works. While focused on tacking the long monologues that appear in the degree rituals for officers, I was also able to apply it to memorizing the "long form" proficiency required for the degrees in my state. He emphasizes how to memorize optimally, with less effort, and setting a schedule. And most importantly, scheduling time to not only have the words down, but also to work on presentation and NOT BEING BORING.While actors use phone apps like "Script Rehearser" to memorize their lines, there are some particular requirements for masons that make that unworkable. But it's also true that the rituals have been memorized word for word for hundreds of years before us, and previous masons built a lot of memory hooks built into the ritual texts, including passages with alliteration, rhymes, and patterns of letters. Part of the fun of masonry is finding these patterns as you memorize the ritual words.The author touches on this as much as he is able to in the untyled forum of a book available to the public while still maintaining masonic secrets, and there are no spoilers that would make lower degree masons avoid this book.Faced with memorizing 16 pages of dialog in cypher text was intimidating. Smith's book gave me the tools to handle that, and succeed, without stressing out, and having a realistic idea of how long I would need to work to get it down and sound natural.

Having a mechanical background I found the layout and structure of the book very easy to read and understand. Through your company, I would like to contact the author to gain permission to use part of this material at a Lodge lecture. Is this at all possible.