Promoting the Fraternity across the World
The Policy Studies Organization is sponsoring the World Conference on Fraternalism, Freemasonry, and History: Research in Ritual, Secrecy,…
The members of Pharos Lodge No 7421 recently gathered for a celebration of the 50th year in Freemasonry of Robbie Heywood. The initial business of the…
With the Festive Season and 2016 fast approaching I would like to extend my thanks to all three Groups on the Fylde for their support in the first part of…
There is such an abundance of evidence in proof of the continuity of Freemasonry during the period selected, that it is only necessary to study the special records of the old Lodges, happily still preserved, the Rolls of the “Old Charges”, and especially the extant minutes of the Masons’ Company of London, to be assured that the Freemasons of the present day are the lineal descendants of the operative builders, who in the 17th century, and earlier, admitted speculative or non-professional members.
The early history of the so-called “Higher Degrees” is even more obscure than that of the Craft, and in consequence a tendency has grown up to regard them as “Manufactured” during the 18th century.
In my opinion this is too hasty a conclusion, for some of these degrees at any rate bear every evidence of antiquity, and contain that wisdom which has been handed down from generation to generation.
The Builder Magazine March 1915 – Volume 1 – Number 3 BY BRO. S. W. WILLIAMS, GRAND HIGH PRIEST OF TENNESSEE ” The MASTER’S WORD * * * is the reward of…
It was the hottest and clammiest day of the year when the masses gathered at Blackpool Masonic Hall for the installation convocation of Senatores Chapter of Installed First Principals No 8966. Despite the rather oppressive heat however, there was a general atmosphere of leisured cosiness.
THE THEORY that modern Freemasonry is in some sense a direct descendant from the ancient Mysteries has held a peculiar attraction for Masonic writers this long time, and the end is not yet, for the world is rife with men who argue about the matter up and down endless pages of print
The Deputy Provincial Grand Master, V W Brother Keith Young will celebrate 50 years in the paper industry on Saturday 11th June.
Well, our brethren across the Atlantic are confronting this same situation in England, and the similarities and differences between our two societies are interesting to compare.