Tom McKinney - Jim Shaw - The Deadly Deception (1988)

Tom McKinney: Jim Shaw--The Deadly Deception (1988) - single page OCRd, B&W

This is a single-page, b&w OCR update (7.81MB) of the dual page color scan (33.9MB) -- 151 pages in the PDF.

Basically the dual page images of the first version have been split so you will still see the page curvature and distortion as the original scan of the book was not made on an edge scanner. The OCR and spell-checking and editing has been re-done. The original scan was done at only 200dpi
but the effort turned out reasonably well.

There are hints of some black page borders in about 5% of pages because I couldn't be assed to remove them, having done so on about 25 pages more seriously affected.

Even with these imperfections such as remaining typos that undoubtedly will have escaped
the proofer's eye, you may find this easier to navigate, print and/or listen to via text2speech.
And it's less than a quarter of the size of the first scan.

NB: there was no cover or front page in the original color scan.

From Foreword:

"Freemasonry, sincerely entered into, is a search for light. Any knowledgeable Mason can tell you this. Yet, beneath the surface of this search for light, there is much more. This truth is seldom realized by the Masonic candidate. As a matter of fact, the vast majority of Masonic seekers are never aware that there is anything more available to them in Masonry, beyond what they see and hear in their Blue Lodge experience. ...

Only a small number make that extra commitment that goes far beyond social and business motivations. They continue to work, study, seek and learn, climbing the mountain of Masonic knowledge, searching for that light in all its fullness.

Jim Shaw was such a man. He was not satisfied with social fulfillment or surface knowledge; he sensed the deeper, true meaning of that promised light and he sought it with all his heart, mind and strength. His ardent quest carried him through all the chairs of leadership in the Blue Lodge and the Scottish Rite, all the way to the House of the Temple in Washington, D.C. to the "Thirty-Third and Last Degree" and the position of Sovereign Grand Inspector General, Knight Commander of the House of the Temple of Solomon. There, at the top of the Masonic mountain, he broke through the clouds at last and found the full revelation, the true meaning of light and life."