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Geoffrey Cooper Chapter Receives Bristol Team

Geoffrey cooper chapter receives bristol team

Geoffrey Cooper Chapter Receives Bristol TeamOn Friday 9th September 2016, the Geoffrey Cooper Royal Arch Chapter hosted a visit by the Province of Bristol Demonstration Team who conducted a simulated Exaltation Ceremony.  This is a unique event as only this Team is permitted by Supreme Grand Chapter to deliver this Ceremony, which has not changed for over 200 years.  Over 100 Companions enjoyed a spectacular presentation where E Comp Simon Butler acted as the Exaltee.  The photographs show some of those attending and the Demonstration Team.

Sponsor a Disadvantaged Child for a 2016 Christmas Pantomime

Panto Aladdin

Last Christmas the Provincial Charity Steward, Wayne Smith, asked you to consider supporting your local communities by sponsoring a child from a disadvantaged background to attend a Pantomime during the Christmas holidays. An initial two hundred and fifty places were reserved and thanks to your magnificent response, six hundred and ninety disadvantaged Children, Parents and Carers had a special Christmas treat! Click here to read more about last year’s sponsored pantomime places.

Some Biblical passages in Masonry by W.Bro. Ronald Paul Ng The Lodge of St. George No. 1152

Ashlar

When I first went through the 2nd degree and heard these words from the W. Master “..you are now permitted to extend your researches into the hidden mysteries of Nature and Science” I was struck by the absurdity of it. Here I am, a medical doctor, whose very profession required the study of the hidden mysteries of Nature and Science being told I am now permitted to do so

Enhancing the Royal Arch Exaltation Ceremony

Royal Arch

The Royal Arch Provincial Executive of Essex have produced 2 new leaflets to enhance the understanding of the Exaltation ceremony for the Exaltee and Royal Arch Companions alike. “The Exaltation Ceremony – Setting the Scene” and “Sojourners Readings” are intended to be read at the relevant parts of the ceremony and all Royal Arch Chapters are encouraged to adopt these.                                              

Kipling and the Craft

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.

1813 Revival by Sussex of Restoration Chapter No 1 – 1769

Holy Royal Arch

Records of Royal Arch activity in England, in today’s Supreme Grand Chapter, start with the entry in the first minute book of the unnamed ‘Excellent Grand and Royal Chapter’. They are dated 22 March 1765 and show the first meeting to have been held at the mysterious and still unidentified Mr Inge’s premises, until the move to The Turk’s Head in Gerrard Street, Soho, London on 12 June of the same year. It took a further four years before Supreme Grand Chapter issued warrants establishing the first new Chapters under the jurisdiction of the Order.


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