Stephen lays foundations as master
The first installation ceremony for Tarleton Lodge No 7871 as members of the newly amalgamated Ormskirk and Bootle Group of Lodges and Chapters was held…
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St John’s Lodge donate to Prostate Cancer Research
At a specially arranged meeting in Coventry, the Provincial Grand Master, RW Bro David Macey presented cheques for £3,731 to the Chief Executive of Prostate Cancer Research, Professor John Masters. This was on behalf of the St John’s Lodge 2811, represented by W Bro Paul Skinner and W Bro Hosey Davoudian.
Provincial Golf Report
Province of West Wales. (Provincial Golf Society) Final Meeting report 2015/2016 season (Milford Haven Golf Club.) The final golf…
A principal test of Sincerity
The installation convocation of Blackpool Chapter of Sincerity No 4175 was chalked up to begin at five o’clock and only a short while before…
Absolutes and Imperialism: Exclusion and Isolation?
Not long ago, and on behalf of the United Grand Lodge of England, a speech was made that stated that the basic principles of Freemasonry were refined over 150 years and codified in 1929 and 1938. This codification, it is claimed, defines regularity; the speech advises that regularity is an “absolute” and that these basic principles are above and beyond change and reinterpretation. The same statement proscribes masons in masonry from being explicitly involved in matters such as the social progress of the new Europe and it stipulates that “Freemasonry has no role outside of Freemasonry”.
Famous Scottish Freemasons – Alexander Nasmyth 1758 – 1840
Perhaps the most famous of all the paintings of Robert Burns is the one that hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh by Alexander Nasmyth….
The Cable Tow
THE word Cable-tow, we are told, is, purely Masonic in its meaning and use. It is so defined in the dictionary, but not always accurately, which shows…
FUNDAMENTALS OF MASONIC FUNERAL RITES
by W.Bro. Chris Aniche Okorafor Past Deputy District Grand Master, Hon. Grand Almoner Founder Member and Past Master of Lodge Aro #1772,Arochukwu Lodge…
Martinist Orders
Martinist Orders The Martinist Orders L’Ordre Martiniste of Papus (Dr Gérard Encausse), created in 1888. Papus was its sole Grand Master from 1888 till…
FREEMASONRY AND THE CATHEDRAL BUILDERS
There has been a great deal of difference of opinion among the historians of architecture as to where and when Gothic began. English writers, who have a very natural desire to claim for their own land the glory of the discovery of the art, date it at 1100 A.D. or earlier, and find its first manifestations at Durham; whereas French writers almost unanimously hold that Gothic began first of all in the region round about Paris, in what was once called the Ile de France, and say that the Abbey Church of St. Denis, begun in 1140, is to be regarded as the first known Gothic monument. It appears that a majority of the more modern writers incline to agree with the French theory. Porter dates the new style as beginning in Paris about 1163, and says that it reached its culmination in the year 1220, with the nave of Amiens.