Promoting the Fraternity across the World
Freemasonry consists of fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local fraternities of stonemasons, which from the end of the fourteenth century regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients. The degrees of freemasonry retain the three grades of medieval craft guilds, those of Apprentice, Journeyman or fellow (now called Fellowcraft), and Master Mason. These are the degrees offered by Craft (or Blue Lodge) Freemasonry. Members of these organisations are known as Freemasons or Masons. There are additional degrees, which vary with locality and jurisdiction, and are usually administered by different bodies than the craft degrees.
The basic, local organisational unit of Freemasonry is the Lodge. The Lodges are usually supervised and governed at the regional level (usually coterminous with either a state, province, or national border) by a Grand Lodge or Grand Orient. There is no international, world-wide Grand Lodge that supervises all of Freemasonry; each Grand Lodge is independent, and they do not necessarily recognise each other as being legitimate.
Christophe Habas, the master of the Grand Orient of France, suffered superficial wounds in the incident, as he was walking to a metro station in the French capital, the Le Parisien daily reported . The assailant shouted “Jew” three times as she hit him with the hammer before fleeing.
On Saturday, 11th March, more than fifty intrepid of people set out at 11.30am from the International Club, in El Campello, on their annual, sponsored beach walk. This annual walk was organised by the Santa Faz Masonic Lodge No 48 in support of ASPANION a very worthwhile charity for Children with Cancer.
Alfreton Masonic Hall was pleased and proud to receive the RW PGM accompanied by the VW Deputy PGM, both Assistant PGM’s, the Junior Warden and the Provincial Grand Secretary at the official opening of their new dining facility.
West Wales Freemasons give £150,000 to local charities to celebrate 300th anniversary
In times gone by, in all pursuits of self-discovery and self-improvement, as well as spiritual quests, a pilgrimage was necessary. In the ancient world, the deities who controlled certain areas of life were unable to operate outside those areas. Their power to favour or to destroy only operated within their own area. So a man from the mountains who found himself in the plain and was in need of divine help, had to make a pilgrimage back to his place of origin in order once again to be one with the deity controlling the mountainous regions.
Bishop Percy Mark Herbert was born on 24th April 1885 at Shrewsbury where the family of the Earls of Powis, of which he was a member, held hereditary liberties. His father was Major-General the Hon. William Henry Herbert who had seen distinguished service in the Crimean War and who was a son of Edward Clive, 2nd Earl of Powis and Sybella Milbank
Exhibition at Reading museum focuses on Freemason history
Freemasons donate more than £33,000 to 27 regional organisations
