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Quarterly Communication of Grand Lodge 11 June 2014 Report of the Board of General Purposes Minutes The Minutes of the Quarterly Communication of 12 March 2014 and of the Annual Investiture of 30 April 2014 were confirmed. Annual Dues The Board’s recommendation for the annual dues payable to Grand Lodge in respect of each member of … Read more
A reprint of an article published in Freemasonry Today Issue 25, Summer 2003 © Grand Lodge Publications Ltd 1997-2014 The Allied Masonic Degrees Keith Jackson Reviews the Red Cross of Babylon and the Holy Order of the Grand High Priest The Grand Council of the Order of Allied Masonic Degrees now controls five degrees which are ‘beyond … Read more
The Royal Arch Mason’s clothing includes robes, aprons, sashes, collars, chains and jewels. The 1766 rules of the Excellent Grand and Royal Chapter say that the Excellent Grand Principals will wear proper Robes, Caps, Jewels, but no Apron. All the Companions wear Aprons (unless they are authorised to wear Robes), and the Aprons shall be … Read more
I am not sure just what I want to say this morning or indeed how I am going to say it. I am assuming that the news of my forthcoming retirement has reached the ears of most of you and having been appointed from 21 July 2007 I very much regret that I shall not … Read more
During research I was doing into the Holy Royal Arch of Jerusalem I came across a book in the George Holden library at the Solent Masonic Centre at Freshwater, Isle of Wight called the Book of the Chapter and printed in the United States in 1856, the Author being the famous American Masonic historian Albert Mackey MD. The book had been part of the collection of the Bombay Masonic Library in the latter half of the 19th century.
