This volume contains the monthly issues of Mackey's National Freemason magazine for October 1871 through September 1872. The magazine is devoted to the science, philosophy, history, symbolism,and jurisprudence of Freemasonry. Sample contents: Parliamentary Law, as Applied to the Government of Masonic Bodies; Essenes, the Jewish Prototypes of the Modern Freemasons; Mysteries of Adonis; Guano Mines of Bolivia; Studies of Masonic History; Heir of the Glanvilles; Tetragrammaton, of the Ineffable Name; Count Cagliostro, the Biography of a Masonic Charlatan; Philosophy and Science of Speculative Masonry; and much more.