Beacon Lodge in Loughborough welcomes 18 year old Freemason
Beacon Lodge No. 5208 held an emergency meeting on Friday 29th May 2015 for a very special ceremony where they initiated a ‘Lewis’ on the very day of his…
Masonic Ritual
Emulation Lodge of Improvement launches a Digital Version of its Ritual
Digital Edition of the Emulation Ritual The official and authorised eBook version of the Emulation Ritual is now available in a totally secure…
The Entered Apprentice
You are now an Entered Apprentice Freemason – the first step in your journey through what is known as The Craft Degrees. The word ‘apprentice’ means…
Peter Lowndes on the importance of reciting the ritual
Letters to the Editor – No. 30 Summer 2015 Reading matters Sir, I read with interest John Salisbury’s letter in the last issue of Freemasonry…
Beyond the city
Talk of the town A city lawyer by profession, Sir David Wootton is the new Assistant Grand Master. He talks to Luke Turton about his…
The Official History of Freemasonry – Part 5
In the later part of the eighteenth century the two main Grand lodges of England, the “Moderns” and the “Antients” Grand lodges, began to collaborate and…
A.G.Mackey – Selected Writings – Royal and Select
During research I was doing into the Holy Royal Arch of Jerusalem I came across a book in the George Holden library at the Solent Masonic Centre at Freshwater, Isle of Wight called the Book of the Chapter and printed in the United States in 1856, the Author being the famous American Masonic historian Albert Mackey MD. The book had been part of the collection of the Bombay Masonic Library in the latter half of the 19th century.