Welbeck Lodge BBQ Garden Party — Summer 2026
Welbeck Lodge hosts a BBQ Garden Party on 2 August 2026 at Ye Olde Bridge Inn, welcoming Freemasons, families and friends for an afternoon of fellowship.
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Top 7 Misconceptions about Freemasonry in 2024
It is fair to say – public perceptions have changed, but misconceptions about Freemasons still exist Secret Society: One of the most widespread…
Chelmsford charity receives generous donation from local Freemasons
Chelmsford charity receives generous donation from local Freemasons
Homelessness charity receives donation from Essex Freemasons
Chelmsford CHESS receives donation from Essex Freemasons
Back to the Future
During its early history in Australia, Freemasonry was not an egalitarian movement. Indeed, it can be argued that it was never designed to be egalitarian. Aside from its teachings, the greatest strength of Masonry has always been its mystique.
Freemasonry in Society: Today and Tomorrow
Over the last number of years and with increasing concentration in recent times, individual Brethren and Grand Lodges seem to be getting more and more involved in matters which clearly fall without the stated “aims and relationships of the Craft
Symbolism of the Lodge
It is often said that symbolism is carried too far and this is difficult to deny when I think of Freud and other psychiatrists and psychologists who seem able to find strange and often erotic meanings in all they see. The meanings given to every image based on repetition makes the lay-person feel at a serious disadvantage when they wish to contradict anything that is given a meaning by such “Specialists.” The symbolic object, which is dredged up by the mind, seems to have no great pattern of consistency in the case of psychiatric symbol definition.
THE FELLOWCRAFT’S HANDBOOK by W.Bro. J.S.M. WARD
In this little volume W. Bro. Ward justly emphasises the importance of the 2 degree. In former times it was no mere passing stage of a Mason’s career. In…