Promoting the Fraternity across the World
In attempting to give an outline sketch of the various degrees in Freemasonry in a book of this description, I am faced by many difficulties, not the least of which is how to write in an interesting way about degrees, which many of my readers have not taken, without giving away more than is permissible. … Read more
The Mark is a ceremony or degree [sometimes called the ‘friendly’ degree], conferrable today only to Master Masons and forms part of a hierarchical organization. In Craft Masonry it was quite a late innovation making its appearance during the mid-1700s. However we do know that Operative Masons, without any kind of ceremony, were taking marks 150 years before the Mark came into use as part of that particular ceremony.
On Monday 4th September 2017, the Deputy Grand Superintendent, EComp Paul Rose attended the convocation of Probity and Freedom Chapter No 367.
BROTHER RUDYARD KIPLING THE ROYAL ARCH MASON Winter 1964 Jubal sang of the wrath of God And the curse of thistle and thorn, But Tubal got him a pointed rod And scrambled the earth for corn. Old – old as that early mould, Young as the sprouting grain- Yearly green is the strife between Jubal … Read more
Of the many ‘extra-Craft’ degrees, those five controlled by the Grand Council of the Order of the Allied Masonic Degrees are probably the least known: one has to be a Mark Master and a Royal Arch Mason to be eligible and this double qualification will exclude many. There are also fewer private Allied Councils than there are lodges, or equivalent bodies, for the much larger orders of Mark and Royal Ark Mariners and even of smaller orders, such as the Royal and Select Masters.
