Promoting the Fraternity across the World
Billy Ray Cutlip is the first member of Greeneville Lodge No. 3, F&AM, to be elected the Most Worshipful Grand Master of Free and Accepted Masons of Tennessee. His lodge hosted a homecoming for him at the end of May.
At the Installation Meeting of the Leicestershire and Rutland Lodge of Installed Masters No. 7896 on the 8th April 2016 the members and visitors were treated to an informative lecture on Freemasonry and Sport by W Bro Rex Hazeldine of the Lodge of Science and Art No. 8429
Over the years, there have been published several charts or plans of the degrees and orders of Freemasonry. Masonic editions of the Bible, presented to newly raised members, often include such a chart.
The story of The Magic Flute focuses on the triumph of reason and virtue over irrationality and the amoral. This concept was important in Freemasonry, which was popular during the Enlightenment of which Mozart was a card-carrying member
How did the “Working Tools” come into our ceremonies? Were all our present-day “W.T.s” used and moralized from the earliest times, or were they introduced gradually?
In modern times the implement used by the Tiler is a sword of the ordinary form. This is incorrect. Formerly, and indeed up to a comparatively recent period, the Tiler’s sword was wavy in shape, and so made in allusion to the “flaming sword which was placed at the east of the garden of Eden
An “Open Evening” hosted by Loyal Sportsman Lodge is being held at the Barry Masonic Hall, Broad St, on Friday, June 24, 2016.
THE sombre side of history also serves its purpose, for it brings into sharp relief the high lights which would otherwise stand upon the horizon of past events without a distinguishing contrast. The story of Freemasonry is no exception, and is incomplete without a recital of the opposition directed against the institution by political and ecclesiastical adversaries
A German fayence blue and white pewter-mounted tankard and hinged cover (Fayencekrug) of Mining/Masonic interest , third quarter 18th century, decorated with arms supported by two bearers and surmounted with a crown and eye
THE Freemasons of Cornwall held their annual Provincial Charity Presentation Day at Newquay recently where £43,192 was donated to over 30 organisations.