Freemasons Help ‘The Children’s Adventure Farm Trust’

The Master Masons Forum Helps The Children’s Adventure Farm Trust

Rob Bashforth and staff at the Childrens Adventure Farm Trust were delighted to be presented with a fantastic cheque for £850 from representatives of the Master Masons Forum.

Historical Origins of the Mark Degree

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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.