Suggested reading per NJGL

Foundations: new light on the formation and early years of The Grand Lodge of England The 2016 Prestonian Lecture by Ric Berman

The Magus of Freemasonry: The Mysterious Life of Elias Ashmole Scientist, Alchemist, and Founder of the Royal Society by Tobias Churton

The Regius Poem or Halliwell Manuscript: by James O. Halliwell (Author), Carl E. Weaver (Editor)

The Symbolism of Freemasonry: Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

Freemasonry and its Relation to the Essenes: Foundations of Freemasonry Series by William Wynn Westcott

The New Atlantis: by Francis Bacon

John Theophilus Desaguliers: A Natural Philosopher, Engineer and Freemason in Newtonian England by Audrey T. Carpenter