The Hidden Life in Freemasonry by C W Leadbeater 1949 Third Edition

Blue coloured hardback book with gilded design on the front board and black lettering on spine. 22 x 15 x 3 cm approx.  374 pages including index with eleven plates (2 coloured).

Compact and clean book with only a name and number on the front flyleaf page.  Spine is lightly sunned and the corners are slightly bumped.

Published by The Theosophical Publishing House, Adyar, Madras, India.  Printed by C Subbarayudu at the Vasanta Press.  Third Edition 1949.

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This item is one of a number of Masonic items donated by members and being sold to raise money to aid the upkeep and maintenance of the Bath Masonic Museum Collection, which is housed in the vaults of Bath Masonic Hall, previously the original Bath Theatre Royal.

BATH MASONIC HALL

Built in 1750, it was the very first Provincial Theatre to receive a Royal Warrant by special act of Parliament, and was the Theatre in which many famous Regency actors and actresses made their names before transferring to the London Stage, including Sarah Siddons, John Henderson and Charles Incledon. It was closed as a Theatre in 1805, when the Theatre Royal Company transferred to the building that is still their current home in Bath. It was then acquired by the Benedictine Mission to Bath, and became one of the foremost Catholic Chapels in this country, post-emancipation, before being sold in 1865 to become the home to one of the oldest provincial Masonic Lodges in the country - Royal Cumberland Lodge No.41. The building is now open to the public for guided tours, together with the Masonic Museum established in 1925.