Promoting the Fraternity across the World
In the third Degree ceremony in Craft masonry, a brother is raised to the ‘Sublime Degree of a Master Mason’. It is indeed a ‘Sublime’ Degree, which, as a full member of the Craft, a Mason may study for years without exhausting it.
Any interpretation in this article must necessarily be a hint only. Yet a hint may stimulate a Mason to reflect upon it himself, and to study it more thoroughly in the future.
Craft Freemasonry Lodge Items and Regalia: Should the V.S.L. be placed so that it can be read by the W.M. or the Candidate? The V.S.L. is an essential part of the Lodge when in session, and there is no specific role as to which way it should be turned. But when it is to be … Read more
It is some years ago that Rev Neville Barker Cryer went on record in establishing that what really distinguished Freemasonry from any other sort of fraternal association was the centrality of masonic ritual in its activities. To that conviction he holds as firmly as ever. Indeed in this paper he asserts, in what was almost … Read more
All of us are very familiar with the experience of hearing a representative of the Provincial Grand Master, or the Charity Steward of our own lodge, speaking about the continuing need for our support if we are to provide adequately for the care of our brethren and their dependent s, as well as some wider … Read more
HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh became a Master Mason in Navy Lodge, No. 2612, of which he is still a subscribing member. HRH The Duke of Kent has been our Grand Master since 1967 and his wise counsel and great support in what has been a turbulent time for English Freemasonry, have been invaluable. His brother HRH Prince Michael of Kent has given long service as both Provincial Grand Master for Middlesex in the Craft and as Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons.
