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A Stroll Through The Seven Liberal Arts and Sciences

21st March 202414th November 2017

This article explores the crucial role of the liberal arts and sciences within Freemasonry, particularly highlighted during the Fellowcraft Degree's Winding Stair lecture.

Throughout our lives, we have heard of the liberal arts and sciences. But until we were presented with them in The Winding Stair lecture, most of us had only a vague notion of what they consisted. The Fellowcraft Degree commends Freemasons to study the Liberal Arts and Sciences, which are grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. When we study the historical background for this list, we will uncover layers of Masonic meanings for us in each of the seven areas of knowledge.

Pythagoras: One of the Greatest Minds of His Time

8th November 2017

Pythagoras was one of the greatest minds and philosophers of his time and his unquestionable influence can be felt even today in mathematics. It is believed that he was the first man who referred to himself as a “philosopher.” He was the founder of Pythagoreanism, a religious and political movement that appeared mainly in the big cities of Magna Grecia (today southern Italy).

Difficult Questions About Freemasonry

31st October 201731st October 2017

There is so much miss information in the Public domain about Freemasonry, this article goes to some length in explaining answers to criticisms that its receives.

Shedding light on modern masonry in Sheffield

18th July 2017

Freemasons are keen to dispel the secrecy associated with the movement, and held a series of We’re Open events this week to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the United Grand Lodge of England, the governing body of Freemasonry in England and Wales.

Three Uses of Memory in Freemasonry by W.Bro. J. Scott Kenney

14th November 201730th July 2016

Why is memory so important to Freemasons? I’m sure to many of you, that will seem obvious. Yet, beyond memorizing material so that you can do things like prove up to a higher degree, perform your ritual part well, do the floorwork, deliver a charge or even deliver a tracing board, there is a great deal more to this topic than one might think at first glance. Thus, in this brief paper, I hope to sketch out three interrelated areas in which memory may – whether consciously or inadvertently – be of significance to Freemasons.

THE SCOTTISH AND IRISH REGIMENTS AT ST-GERMAIN-EN-LAYE : Masonic myth or reality? Conclusion

27th July 2016

The Grand Lodge of Antient Free and Accepted Masons of Scotland19 July at 10:41 ·

Dürer’s polyhedron: 5 theories that explain Melencolia’s crazy cube

22nd July 2016

Cheesed off cherubs: Melencolia I is one of the best-known works of the Northern Renaissance. But what on Earth is that geometrical solid in the middle left of the picture?

The Point Within a Circle

12th November 201714th July 2016

As Masons, we are all introduced during our ritual lectures to the Masonic symbol of the Point Within a Circle, and instructed in its’ allusion. The most interesting thing to me during my own such introduction was that the figure representing this symbol contained not only a point within a circle, but also two straight vertical lines touching the sides of the circle. It was explained during the ensuing lecture that these lines represented the two Holy Saints John, namely John the Baptist, and John the Evangelist. This struck me as peculiar to say the least, and I have been trying to figure out this peculiarity ever since.

The Blazing Star

12th November 201713th July 2016

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there has been very little agreement among our scholars either as to its (the letter ‘G’) origin or to its meaning. Usually, we can hit upon the manner in which a symbol was introduced into the Ritual by studying the records of the early eighteenth century in England, at which time and place the Ritual was cast in its modern form, but such a study cannot help us here because the eighteenth century Masons were themselves confused about the matter

Leopold Lodge in Grafton to open its doors to the future

9th July 2016

Founded in 1880, the Leopold Lodge is number 87 and as one of the oldest in the Clarence Valley, its 136 year history is something that Very Worshipful Brother Rod Smith doesn’t want to see forgotten.