Manual of Freemasonry. 3 parts.

“Carlile is better known for his Manual of Freemasonry, an exposé of Masonic rituals that included the three Craft degrees, the Royal Arch, the Mark and the Knight Templar degree. The exposé was so successful that it was reprinted many times and was used in lodges throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in England as a source for learning ritual. The ritual is in essence, a version of emulation, although there are incidences throughout of archaic words and phrasing, an example being a charge that Carlile points out ‘is occasionally delivered at the closing of the Lodge by the Master’ which begins ‘When the Lodge is closed you are at liberty to enjoy yourselves with innocent mirth…’More recently, historian Andrew Prescott remarked that Godfrey Higgins may have been an influence on Carlile’s ritual, Higgins being a Freemason who had researched the York Grand Lodge. Influences on Carlile’s rituals and Masonic writings include the early exposé Jachin and Boaz, the Masonic works of William Finch, Thomas Paine’s Origins of Freemasonry and Thomas De Quincey’s Origin of the Rosicrucians and the Free-Masons.

These rituals first appeared in The Republican in the latter part of 1825 while he was still in Dorchester Gaol, and Carlile reissued the material in a complete volume in 1831 to accompany the Masonic lectures of his partner the Rev. Robert Taylor. The rituals were reprinted in 1836, and again in 1845, when it was published with the name The Manual of Freemasonry. Carlile had been imprisoned again for printing radical work, and died in 1843. His Manual of Freemasonry represents a view of English Freemasonry from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, but the popularity of his rituals kept them in print continuously for decades, helping English Freemasons with their lodge work well into the twentieth century.” (Masonic Encyclopedia).

Not in Wolfstieg.