Double Headed Eagle
The double headed eagle, a symbol steeped in antiquity, stands as one of the Scottish Rite’s most venerable emblems, its lineage stretching back through…
Isaac Newton
The Influence of Kings on Craft Freemasonry
‘From time immemorial’ we have been very fortunate in that our Craft has had the support of Royalty. Without that support I doubt that we would be in…
Alain Bernheim: My Approach to Masonic History
As a French citizen who was successively a member of the Grand Orient of France – ‘that irregular body’ –, then of the Grande Loge Nationale Française – a regular one –, then of the United Grand Lodges of Germany and, for the past ten years, of the Swiss Grand Lodge Alpina, Alan presents his approach to Masonic history
Oscar Wilde – A University Freemason – by W.Bro. Yasha Beresiner
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
Reaching out to the next generation
West Lancashire Freemasons, in the persons of Dave Grainger APrGM with responsibility for the University Scheme, and John Stanley the Lancaster and…
John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683 1744)
John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683 1744) was a French-born British natural philosopher, clergyman, engineer and freemason who was elected to the Royal Society in 1714 as experimental assistant to Isaac Newton
Interview with David Williamson, Assistant Grand Master and President of the Universities Scheme
Aircraft control As he approaches retirement from the position of Assistant Grand Master, David Williamson reflects on a career as an airline pilot,…