Nature - Freemasonry Matters

Freemasonry and its Role in Civil Society

17th August 2017

Shakespeare, Library,Curator, Julian Harrison, British Library

We would offer as a starting point a commonly held view that the arrangements with major impact on human existence are those of the state, family and market with a fourth “civil society” being the totality of other institutions. These groupings are not fixed. Rather, they should be understood as tectonic plates vitalised by human energy, continuously shaping and forming themselves, and similarly reshaping and re-forming each other.It is to “civil society” that we must turn to find Freemasonry

A Charge By Any Other Name – On yonder Book that oath I took

4th August 2017

In our Masonic lodges we are apt to see or hear a piece of work that makes a great impression on us. Each degree in our respective rituals has special pieces that standout with unique beauty and meaning. I was intrigued while visiting a lodge some years ago when I saw a wonderful poem called “On Yonder Book” given as a charge after the third degree. Afterwards I asked the brother who had given it where it was from, but he had little information about it. I eventually received a copy from a friend from Ohio, who gives it to every newly raised MM in his lodge.

Why join the Royal Arch – John Hamill

4th August 20173rd August 2017

Chapter Royal Arch Masonic apron sash and

Royal Arch: Why join the Royal Arch

Freemasons make Charity Donation for Skegness Coastwatch

29th July 201728th January 2017

Earlier this year in recognition of their service to the local community the National Coastwatch volunteers at Skegness received a charity award from the St Clement Lodge of Freemasons in the Province of Lincolnshire

Freemasons of Brigantes Lodge supporting Alder Hey Children’s Hosptial

22nd January 2017

It is a long-standing custom of Brigantes Lodge 9734 for the proceeds of the December meeting’s raffle to be donated to a charity chosen by the Worshipful Master’s wife.

Buckinghamshire Freemasons donate £1,500 to Girl Scout lodge in Milton Keynes

15th January 201726th December 2016

Huge donation for Girl Scout lodge in Milton Keynes

Herbert Hacker Celebrates Seventy Years in Freemasonry

26th December 2016

RWBro Geoffrey Dearing PGM and Bro Herbert Hacker Dec 2016 9d597b4fbdcdfaf8eeaf4673f873b7f802f2a5b7

Geoffrey Dearing PGM presenting Herbert Hacker with his long service certificate. December 2016 Herbert Hacker and his Mother at RAF Coltishall in 1979…

Masonic Charitable Foundation: An address by VW Bro His Honour Judge Richard Hone, President, and David Innes, Chief Executive

15th January 201714th December 2016

Quarterly Communication 9 March 2016 An address by VW Bro His Honour Judge Richard Hone, President, and David Innes, Chief Executive Richard Hone:…

The Deeper Symbolism of Freemasonry – The Meaning of Masonry – W. L. Wilmshurst

23rd November 20178th December 2016

A candidate proposing to enter Freemasonry has seldom formed any definite idea of the nature of what he is engaging in. Even after his admission he usually remains quite at a loss to explain satisfactorily what Masonry is and for what purpose his Order exists. He finds, indeed, that it is “a system of morality veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols,” but that explanation, whilst true, is but partial and does not carry him very far.

FREEMASONRY AND THE MEN’S HOUSE

9th September 201718th June 2016

EVER SINCE Heinrich Schurtz published his Altersklassen und Maennerbunde in 1902, anthropologists have become more and more interested in the part played by secret societies among primitive peoples