Kipling and the Craft

Image of Rudyard Kipling who wrote thhis Tylers Toast

The need for this further essay was first made apparent to me when—in my capacity as Secretary of the Lodge and Editor of the Transactions—I began to receive inquiries from Brethren as far away as Vancouver and Singapore, asking for materials and information which might help them to complete their own papers on Kipling, and I found, to my surprise, that while our library contains a great deal of relevant material, there has never been a paper on Kipling in our Transactions.

Walter Besant was a Freemason, British Writer and Historian

Walter Besant was a Freemason British writer and historian

Walter Besant was born on August 14th, 1836 in Potsmouth, Hampshire, England. He attended St. Paul’s in Southsea and Stockwell Grammar in London. He went on to King’s College London. In 1855 he was admitted to Christ’s College, Cambridge. He graduated in 1859 from Christ’s Church as a wrangler, an individual who attains first class honors in mathematics in their third year.

JUBAL AND TUBAL CAIN – Poetry

Sculptures in the Portico of Glory of the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, work of Master Mateo

BROTHER RUDYARD KIPLING THE ROYAL ARCH MASON Winter 1964 Jubal sang of the wrath of God And the curse of thistle and thorn, But Tubal got him a pointed…