Promoting the Fraternity across the World
As a French citizen who was successively a member of the Grand Orient of France – ‘that irregular body’ –, then of the Grande Loge Nationale Française – a regular one –, then of the United Grand Lodges of Germany and, for the past ten years, of the Swiss Grand Lodge Alpina, Alan presents his approach to Masonic history
2018 Quatuor Coronati Conference at GW Memorial 8/14-16/2018 Call For Papers
The joint Conference on the history of Freemasonry held by Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076 and Queens’ College at the University of Cambridge in England concluded Sunday. The Conference was dedicated especially to the 300th anniversary of the founding of the first Grand Lodge of England in 1717. Mark Tabbert reports that a paper was presented … Read more
Question: Why is the sun over the J.W.’s chair and the moon over the S.W.’s chair if the S.W. is in charge during the work of the lodge and the J.W. in charge during refreshment, or not at work?
MASON’s MARKS.—In some of the, earlier numbers of A.Q.C. and in those recently issued, contributions on “Masons’ marks” have been printed. On looking over the minute book of Lodge “Operative,” No. 140 S.C. (the history of which I wrote some months ago), there is a list of “The Mark Masters and their Marks,” dated 1776 et seq
