Albert Mackey

American authority on Freemasonry and editor of numerous books on the subject, including Encyclopedia of Freemasonry (1874). Mackey was born in Charleston, South Carolina, on March 12, 1807. He was a disciple of the great nineteenth-century Masonic leader Albert Pike (1809-1891), one of those falsely charged by fictitious Satanic priestess Diana Vaughan and others with the practice of devil worship and sorcery. The whole campaign proved to be a conspiracy on the part of journalist Gabriel Jogand-Pagés to discredit and embarrass both the Roman Catholic Church and Freemasonry. One of the earliest writers to throw doubt on the revelations of Jogand-Pagès was British occultist and mystic Arthur E. Waite in his book Devil-Worship in France (1896).

He died on June 20, 1881, in Virginia.

Sources:

Mackey, Albert Gallatin. Encyclopedia of Freemasonry. 1874.

Reprint, Chicago: Masonic History, 1927.

Stein, Gordon. Encyclopedia of Hoaxes. Detroit: Gale Research, 1993.

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Albert Gallatin Mackey (March 12, 1807 – June 20, 1881) was an American medical doctor, and is best known for his authorship of many books and articles about freemasonry, particularly Masonic Landmarks. He served as Grand Lecturer and Grand Secretary of The Grand Lodge of South Carolina; Secretary General of the Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Rite for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States.

Bibliography

• Albert Gallatin Mackey (1845). A Lexicon of Freemasonry. 
• Albert Gallatin Mackey (1867). The Mystic Tie. 
• Albert Gallatin Mackey (1906). The History of Freemasonry: It's Legends and Traditions. 
• The Principles of Masonic Law, 1856
• Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, Vol I (1873) & Vol II (1878)
• The Symbolism of Freemasonry, 1882

References

• "Albert Gallatin Mackey". Masonic Biographies, Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon. http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/biography/mackey_a/mackey_a.html. Retrieved 1 March 2005. 

External links

• Works by Albert Mackey at Project Gutenberg

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