Quatuor Coronati | Freemasonry Matters

Oscar Wilde – A University Freemason – by W.Bro. Yasha Beresiner

21st August 201722nd January 2017

Today no one will deny the genius of Oscar Wilde. Yet during his own lifetime he was spurned and humiliated in spite of the success of much of his work. He was a victim of the society into which he was born. The Victorian middle-class, whose sacred institutions of morality Wilde was to infringe, simply had no patience or tolerance for him. The saddest of the tragedies that Wilde was to write could not match the events that were to unfold and Freemasonry, which did play a significant part during his time at Oxford

Dr Richard Berman 2016 Prestonian Lecture on the foundations of the Craft

7th November 201621st October 2016

A member of society Would you describe Freemasonry as a product of the class struggle? In his 2016 Prestonian Lecture, Dr Richard Berman defines the origins of the Craft by the social and economic forces at play in the 18th century In the latter half of the 20th century, Freemasonry worked hard to distance itself from … Read more

Is the Official Date of Our Founding Wrong?

22nd September 2016

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

DID YOU KNOW? Why is the sun over the J.W.’s chair and the moon over the S.W.’s chair

4th August 2016

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?

Kipling and the Craft

12th July 2016

Image of Rudyard Kipling who wrote thhis Tylers Toast

The need for this further essay was first made apparent to me when—in my capacity as Secretary of the Lodge and Editor of the Transactions—I began to receive inquiries from Brethren as far away as Vancouver and Singapore, asking for materials and information which might help them to complete their own papers on Kipling, and I found, to my surprise, that while our library contains a great deal of relevant material, there has never been a paper on Kipling in our Transactions.

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