Promoting the Fraternity across the World
On a hot summers evening brethren from the newly amalgamated Ormskirk and Bootle Group, accompanied with their wives and many guests attended the FROTH Gala Cabaret Dinner and Dance, which Bootle Group has been running annually for the last 20 years. This year the event was held at the magnificent surroundings of the West Lancashire Golf Club.
Following the launch of our new website, I would like to take this opportunity to ask all the brethren and companions in the group to visit the website on…
The Installation of Allan Maxfield as Worshipful Master of Hesketh Lodge No 950 took place recently at Fleetwood Masonic Hall. Allan had stepped in at the…
Our congratulations go to W.Bros. Kelvin Johnson and Andy Green, both from the Wyggeston Lodge, who were recently invested at the Annual Investiture of United Grand Lodge of England in London on 27th April 2016 by the Grand Master H.R.H the Duke of Kent.
The members of Peace and Unity Lodge No 3966 recently gathered for their first meeting of the new Masonic season with a celebration of the 50th year in…
The members of Pharos Lodge No 7421 recently gathered for a celebration of the 50th year in Freemasonry of Robbie Heywood. The initial business of the…
With the Festive Season and 2016 fast approaching I would like to extend my thanks to all three Groups on the Fylde for their support in the first part of…
There is such an abundance of evidence in proof of the continuity of Freemasonry during the period selected, that it is only necessary to study the special records of the old Lodges, happily still preserved, the Rolls of the “Old Charges”, and especially the extant minutes of the Masons’ Company of London, to be assured that the Freemasons of the present day are the lineal descendants of the operative builders, who in the 17th century, and earlier, admitted speculative or non-professional members.
Those of my readers who have already studied the first three Handbooks of this series will realise that the true S..s of a M.M. are not restored to them. The real S.. which was lost was comprehension of the Nature of God, and our Third Degree quite clearly indicates that, despite popular beliefs, we shall not be able to comprehend God as soon as we are dead
The early history of the so-called “Higher Degrees” is even more obscure than that of the Craft, and in consequence a tendency has grown up to regard them as “Manufactured” during the 18th century.
In my opinion this is too hasty a conclusion, for some of these degrees at any rate bear every evidence of antiquity, and contain that wisdom which has been handed down from generation to generation.