This is a significant collection of the works of Masonic scholar Walter Leslie Wilmshurst. Includes the popular classical "The Meaning of Masonry" and "The Ceremony of Passing", as well as the rare "The Mystical Basis of Masonry"; "Spurious Ecstasy and Ceremonial Magic"; "The Working Tools of an Old York Master" and more.
Walter Leslie Wilmshurst was an English author and Freemason. He published four books on English Freemasonry and submitted articles to The Occult Review magazine. Born in Chichester, Wilmshurst was initiated as a Mason in the Huddersfield lodge in 1889, having moved to the town to become a solicitor, for a time becoming president of the Huddersfield Law Society. He died in Huddersfield.