Provincial Church Service – Details
PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE OF WEST WALES PRIF GYFRINFA TALAITH GORLLEWIN CYMRU 11th May, 2016 To all Lodge Secretaries And Chapter Scribe…
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Stephen lays foundations as master
The first installation ceremony for Tarleton Lodge No 7871 as members of the newly amalgamated Ormskirk and Bootle Group of Lodges and Chapters was held…
St John’s Lodge donate to Prostate Cancer Research
At a specially arranged meeting in Coventry, the Provincial Grand Master, RW Bro David Macey presented cheques for £3,731 to the Chief Executive of Prostate Cancer Research, Professor John Masters. This was on behalf of the St John’s Lodge 2811, represented by W Bro Paul Skinner and W Bro Hosey Davoudian.
Provincial Golf Report
Province of West Wales. (Provincial Golf Society) Final Meeting report 2015/2016 season (Milford Haven Golf Club.) The final golf…
A principal test of Sincerity
The installation convocation of Blackpool Chapter of Sincerity No 4175 was chalked up to begin at five o’clock and only a short while before…
Whiston Chapter Double Exaltation
Whiston Chapter exalted two Master Masons together last Monday (16/05/16) in the presence of the Deputy Grand Superintendent – ExComp John Robert…
Absolutes and Imperialism: Exclusion and Isolation?
Not long ago, and on behalf of the United Grand Lodge of England, a speech was made that stated that the basic principles of Freemasonry were refined over 150 years and codified in 1929 and 1938. This codification, it is claimed, defines regularity; the speech advises that regularity is an “absolute” and that these basic principles are above and beyond change and reinterpretation. The same statement proscribes masons in masonry from being explicitly involved in matters such as the social progress of the new Europe and it stipulates that “Freemasonry has no role outside of Freemasonry”.
The Cable Tow
THE word Cable-tow, we are told, is, purely Masonic in its meaning and use. It is so defined in the dictionary, but not always accurately, which shows…
Martinist Orders
Martinist Orders The Martinist Orders L’Ordre Martiniste of Papus (Dr Gérard Encausse), created in 1888. Papus was its sole Grand Master from 1888 till…
Origins of Masonic Ritual
The origins of masonic ceremonies are fully discussed by Knoop and Jones in Chapter X of The Genesis of Freemasonry. The authors deduce the origins of eighteenth-century Masonic ceremonies from two main sources. Firstly, the Invocation; the legend or “history” of the Craft; and the Masons’ regulations, as commonly contained in the Ms. Constitutions of Masonry, these being the respective prototypes of the Opening Prayer, the Traditional History, and the Charges of later Masonic ritual