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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.
Acorns Children’s Hospice care for children and young people and their families across the heart of England. They have three children’s hospices – Selly Oak – Birmingham West Midlands, Worcester and Walsall. They provide a wide range of care services for children, from neonatal all the way through to transition to adulthood. Services include ongoing medical support, end of life care and providing hospices at home.
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Nice to see £500 from our benevolent fund and @Idsall_Lodge donated to @AcornsHospice @ShropshireMason
Today no one will deny the genius of Oscar Wilde. Yet during his own lifetime he was spurned and humiliated in spite of the success of much of his work. He was a victim of the society into which he was born. The Victorian middle-class, whose sacred institutions of morality Wilde was to infringe, simply had no patience or tolerance for him. The saddest of the tragedies that Wilde was to write could not match the events that were to unfold and Freemasonry, which did play a significant part during his time at Oxford
At the Annual Meeting held in Derby on 19th October 2016, WBro Peter Hodcroft stepped down as Chairman, an office he had held for six years since 2010….
BY: ROBERT G. DAVIS, 33*, GRAND CROSS The interrogatories of Craft Masonry are said to have been penned by William Preston and appear in the ritual…
A Historical Tenet of Freemasonry By BRO. GILBERT W. DAYNES, England TODAY, Freemasons, in almost every Grand Lodge, recognize that an abiding belief in…
THE DORMER MASONIC STUDY CIRCLE, TRANSACTION NO. 94 “THE FOURTH PART OF A CIRCLE” by W.Bro.J. D. BLAKELEY, M.Sc., F.R.I.C., Prov. A.G.D.C., Essex,…
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…
The word etiquette can be defined as the “established rule of procedure and ceremony in a court or any official or other body”. Perhaps for Masonic…
PHILOSOPHERS are by no means agreed with respect to the scope and subject matter of philosophy. Nor are Masonic scholars at one with respect to the scope and purpose of Freemasonry. Hence one may not expect to define and delimit Masonic philosophy according to the easy method of Dickens’ editor who wrote upon Chinese metaphysics by reading in the Encyclopedia upon China and upon metaphysics and combining his information.