How Long Must I Haul These Ruffians Around With Me?
BY: ROBERT G. DAVIS, 33*, GRAND CROSS The degrees of Freemasonry are built on the clear understanding that men need to be engaged in a quest for…
Knowledge
Masters & Past Masters: The Real Role of These Worshipful Men
Wor. Micahel A. Rose, after being installed as Master of Veritas Lodge No. 556, Norman, Oklahoma. We often encounter problems when words describing…
What Come You Here to Do?
BY: ROBERT G. DAVIS, 33*, GRAND CROSS Photo by: Colin Frankland What come you here to do?My Brothers, this is one of the great questions in all of…
The Distinctive Notion of Form in Traditional Masonry
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BY: ROBERT G. DAVIS, 33*, GRAND CROSS It has been 15 years now, but in the early days of the “traditional observance” lodge movement, I recall…
FREEMASONRY IN RELATION TO THE ANCIENT MYSTERIES.
Every Mason is naturally desirous to know something of the origin and history of the Craft. The available literature on the subject is diffuse and…
Always Up to Standard, Never Down to Price – Provincial Grand Lodge of Durham
Always Up to Standard, Never Down to Price Posted on 01/05/2016 Michael Graham The name of Andrew Foster, Provincial Grand Director of Ceremonies, is…
INN OF YEARS END
INN OF YEARS END SHORT TALK BULLETIN – Vol.II January, 1924 No.1 by: Unknown Our Ancient Brethren were Pilgrims as well as Builders; and so are we. The…
History of the Allied Masonic Degrees
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.
Unworthy Members
That there are men in our Order whose lives and characters reflect no credit on the Institution, whose ears turn coldly from its beautiful lessons of…
The Philosophy of Masonry: William Preston
PHILOSOPHERS are by no means agreed with respect to the scope and subject matter of philosophy. Nor are Masonic scholars at one with respect to the scope and purpose of Freemasonry. Hence one may not expect to define and delimit Masonic philosophy according to the easy method of Dickens’ editor who wrote upon Chinese metaphysics by reading in the Encyclopedia upon China and upon metaphysics and combining his information.