History of the Allied Masonic Degrees

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The vast majority of the ‘additional’ degrees worked in England in the early part of the nineteenth century originally came under the patronage of warrants granted by the ‘Antients’, who held that Craft Warrants entitled Lodges to work any Masonic degree to which they had knowledge and members available who could work it. Upon the formation of the United Grand Lodge various groups of degrees were gradually organised into separate Orders each with their own governing body.

THE INITIATIC SYMBOLISM OF FREEMASONRY

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Freemasonry continues an initiatic tradition whose beginnings are lost in antiquity. This statement cannot be proven historically.Yet the more you study Masonic rites and its symbols, the more you become convinced that you are dealing with something ancient, maybe even primordial. It becomes clear that this tradition is much older than Masonrys institutional beginnings in 1717, older than the cathedral builders and medieval guilds, older even than King Solomons Temple or the Egyptian Pyramids.

A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF CHEVALIER

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First published here http://www.freemasons-freemasonry.com/ A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF CHEVALIER ANDREW MICHAEL RAMSAY Including a full transcript of his…