Inaugural New Members dinner | Allied Masonic Degrees in the District of London
As a new member of the Allied Masonic Degrees in the District of London RW Bro Colin Woodcock invites you to the Inaugural New Members dinner
London
Report of the Board of General Purposes – 8 June 2016
Quarterly Communication of Grand Lodge 8 June 2016 Report of the Board of General Purposes Minutes The Minutes of the Quarterly Communication of 9…
Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874 – 1922)
Sir Ernest Shackleton was initiated in Navy Lodge No. 2612, London, on 9th July, 1901,
passed on 2nd November, 1911, and raised on 30th May, 1913
He was also a member of the Guild of Freeman Lodge No. 3525
Keith Gilbert gives a flavour of the Tercentenary celebrations planned so far
Community spirit When considering a major celebration, we often focus on the nationwide events. Keith Gilbert, Coordinator of Tercentenary…
Fraternity in the trenches
The Battle of the Somme produced more than one million casualties. Director of the Library and Museum of Freemasonry Diane Clements marks the masons who fought for freedom
The centenary of the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916 will be marked this summer. On that single day there were almost 60,000 British casualties, most of them before noon, of whom nearly 20,000 died.
John Bowes: Freemason, civil rights advocate and philantrhopist
Public display Civil rights advocate and art collector John Bowes seemed destined for masonic greatness. Philippa Faulks discovers the Provincial…
THE ROYAL ORDER OF SCOTLAND
by WBro J S M WARD This Order rules two degrees, the Harodim and the Rosy Cross. The Harodim is conferred in a body called a Chapter, and so in this…
Legend of the Quatuor Coronati
Legend of the Quatuor Coronati From the “Breviarum ad usum fratrum Ordinis Praedicatorium in Hispania ; cum calendario praemisso.” Presented by Francisco…
An Invitation to the Installation Meeting of the Metropolitan Lodge of MMM No. 2003
Brethren of the Province of London are cordially invited to attend the Installation Meeting of the Metropolitan Lodge of MMM No. 2003, on Tuesday 28th…
Symbolic Value of the Compasses Angle
Much has been made of the symbolic significance of the angle, or distance between the points, of the compasses in masonic iconography, both by freemasons looking for deeper meanings, and anti-masons looking for further “proof” of occult association.