The Authorized Standard Ritual of the Order of the Eastern Star State of New York: Sixth Revision

288 pp. A system of forms and ceremonies, with necessary instructions for chapters. "The Order of the Eastern Star is a Masonic appendant body open to both men and women. It was established in 1850 by lawyer and educator Rob Morris, a noted Freemason, but was only adopted and approved as an appendant body of the Masonic Fraternity in 1873."