Why to Become A Freemason – The Attraction of values

Joining the Fraternity

When being asked, what would be the value of a diamond, mostly everybody answers in terms of higher amounts of money. A poor wanderer in the desert, in need of a cup of water, would probably give a better answer to this question, because he reflects of value in a different way. “Most valuable” for him means, “serving his needs and desires best”.

Freemasons of the of the Red Cross of Constantine donate £1000 to Prader-Willi Syndrome Associationhelp

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This was donated on behalf of the Grand Sovereign’s Care for Children Fund. Right Illustrious Knight Alan Beckerton, Intendant-General for the Derbyshire Division, together with Very Illustrious Knights John Collison, Deputy Intendant-General and John Beresford, Divisional Recorder, were also present to hear the work that the PWSA carries out throughout the country assisting the families of PWSA sufferers.

Tripartite Meeting of the Order of the Red Cross of Constantine

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On Saturday 13th August at the main theatre of Queen Elizabeth School, Kirkby Lonsdale, the first Tripartite Meeting of the Order of the Red Cross of Constantine took place, which included the divisions of Cumbria, North and East Lancashire and West Lancashire.

History of the Allied Masonic Degrees

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The vast majority of the ‘additional’ degrees worked in England in the early part of the nineteenth century originally came under the patronage of warrants granted by the ‘Antients’, who held that Craft Warrants entitled Lodges to work any Masonic degree to which they had knowledge and members available who could work it. Upon the formation of the United Grand Lodge various groups of degrees were gradually organised into separate Orders each with their own governing body.