MOTHER LODGE
SHORT TALK BULLETIN – Vol.XI January, 1933 No.1 by: Unknown The tenderest of Masonic affections cling around this phrase; men away from home have a…
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Famous Scottish Freemasons – Alexander Nasmyth 1758 – 1840
Perhaps the most famous of all the paintings of Robert Burns is the one that hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh by Alexander Nasmyth….
Origins of Masonic Ritual
The origins of masonic ceremonies are fully discussed by Knoop and Jones in Chapter X of The Genesis of Freemasonry. The authors deduce the origins of eighteenth-century Masonic ceremonies from two main sources. Firstly, the Invocation; the legend or “history” of the Craft; and the Masons’ regulations, as commonly contained in the Ms. Constitutions of Masonry, these being the respective prototypes of the Opening Prayer, the Traditional History, and the Charges of later Masonic ritual
THE INITIATIC SYMBOLISM OF FREEMASONRY
Freemasonry continues an initiatic tradition whose beginnings are lost in antiquity. This statement cannot be proven historically.Yet the more you study Masonic rites and its symbols, the more you become convinced that you are dealing with something ancient, maybe even primordial. It becomes clear that this tradition is much older than Masonrys institutional beginnings in 1717, older than the cathedral builders and medieval guilds, older even than King Solomons Temple or the Egyptian Pyramids.
GRAND LODGES: FRANCE, GERMANY, ETC
by Bro. H.L. HAYWOOD, Editor THE BUILDER The Builder Magazine, June 1924 – Volume X – Number 6 FRANCE, GERMANY, ETC 1. FREEMASONRY IN FRANCE The…
Famous Scottish Freemasons – David Watson Stevenson 1842-1904
David Watson Stevenson 1842 – 1904 One of Scotland’s most accomplished sculptors, David Watson Stevenson was born in the village of Ratho, 5 miles to the…
Famous Scottish Freemasons – Thomas Telford 1757 – 1834
Thomas Telford was born the son of a shepherd near Langholm in the Scottish Borders. At the age of 14 he became an apprentice stonemason in Edinburgh….
Robert Burns as a Freemason
Robert Burns as a Freemason “Gie Me the Master’s Apron” Robert Burns and Freemasonry by World Burns Club Member Todd J. Wilkinson The very mention of the…
Reading Masons And Masons who do not Read
I suppose there are more Masons who are ignorant of all the principles of freemasonry than there are men of any other class who are chargeable with the like ignorance of their own profession. There is not a watchmaker who does not know something about the elements of horology, nor is there a blacksmith who is altogether unacquainted with the properties of red-hot iron
THE MASTER MASON
The Masonic Monthly 1864 AT the summit of Ancient Free and Accepted Masonry stands the third, or Master Mason’s Degree. There is no higher degree,…