Pro Grand Master’s address – June 2014
Quarterly Communication 11 June 2014 An address by the MW the Pro Grand Master Peter Lowndes Brethren, over the last year or two there…
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The Rose Croix
A reprint of an article published in Freemasonry Today Issue 17, Summer 2001 © Grand Lodge Publications Ltd 1997-2014 Matthew Christmas explains the…
‘Our Yesterdays’ – Graham Redman and John Hamill
Freemasons Hall Great Queen Street London Quarterly Communication, 11 December 2013 A Speech By VW Bro Graham Redman, Deputy Grand Secretary, And VW Bro…
Interview with David Williamson, Assistant Grand Master and President of the Universities Scheme
Aircraft control As he approaches retirement from the position of Assistant Grand Master, David Williamson reflects on a career as an airline pilot,…
Prestonian Lecturer Tony Harvey on the Scouts and Freemasonry
Troop leader Fellowship, harmony and shared moral values – the parallels between Freemasonry and Scouting have been explored by Tony Harvey in…
The Freemason’s Bedside Book by John Mandleberg
Serious but not solemn Written by the late John Mandleberg, The Freemason’s Bedside Book is an invigorating collection of bite-sized material from a…
Grand Secretary’s column – Spring 2013
I have long been fascinated by the study of the source and development of words, and with this comes a realisation that a word can be interpreted in…
The shared experience
A badly read piece of ritual is infinitely worse than a badly remembered piece, explains Director of Special Projects John Hamill When dealing with the…
The essence in change
Freemasonry has thrived for centuries because it adapts while staying true to its principles, as Director of Special Projects John Hamill explains As we…
A.G.Mackey – Selected Writings – Royal and Select
During research I was doing into the Holy Royal Arch of Jerusalem I came across a book in the George Holden library at the Solent Masonic Centre at Freshwater, Isle of Wight called the Book of the Chapter and printed in the United States in 1856, the Author being the famous American Masonic historian Albert Mackey MD. The book had been part of the collection of the Bombay Masonic Library in the latter half of the 19th century.