Promoting the Fraternity across the World
A Catholic may join regular Freemasonry but ought to consult his Bishop, through his parish priest, not for permission to join but to ascertain the nature of the jurisdiction concerned. (Regular or Irregular)
A Pakistani Moslem from the Khyber Pass was installed last night as Master of a predominately Jewish Lodge of Freemasons in the south side of Glasgow.
Taxi-driver Wali Khan, teetotaller and Lodge member for the last 10 years, is believed to be the first Moslem to hold such office in Scotland.
What did George Washington, Winston Churchill and Benjamin Franklin have in common with Goethe, Mozart, and Voltaire? And with Motilal Nehru and Swami Vivekanand?
Freemasons are keen to dispel the secrecy associated with the movement, and held a series of We’re Open events this week to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the United Grand Lodge of England, the governing body of Freemasonry in England and Wales.
A cheque for £5,000 being this year’s contribution from the Famous Five, was presented by VW Bro Alan Wellan, PGSwdB, Past Deputy Provincial Grand Master, in front of a large congregation at St Mary’s Collegiate Church, Warwick. The church and Warwickshire Freemasonry have many links, some of which are summarised below. This summary was written for the St Mary’s Church magazine by Alan, and was also printed in the brochure for this year’s Annual Church Service in June. Alan is a member of St Mary’s Parochial Church Council.
The Warrington Heritage Day saw the doors of the Museum of Freemasonry and the Masonic hall open to welcome the general public, to view the various displays of Masonic artefacts and memorabilia in the setting of the Masonic hall which was purpose built in 1933.
Freemason Grand Master for the United Grand Lodge of Queensland, Alan Townson, installs Cecil Hamley as the new Master of Nambour. John McCutcheon
IT’S his second time in the hot seat, but Cecil Hamley is not taking lightly his induction as Worshipful Master of the Freemasons’ Nambour Lodge.
“It’s still an experience, a new one,” he told the Daily before the Grand Master for the United Grand Lodge of Queensland, Alan Townson, placed him on the chair of King Solomon at Nambour Masonic Centre yesterday.
There is a universal Masonic requirement of belief in Deity, which is followed by all regular Grand Lodges of the world. As Entered Apprentices, receiving Light for the first time, Masons are cautioned that no Atheist may be made a Mason
there has been very little agreement among our scholars either as to its (the letter ‘G’) origin or to its meaning. Usually, we can hit upon the manner in which a symbol was introduced into the Ritual by studying the records of the early eighteenth century in England, at which time and place the Ritual was cast in its modern form, but such a study cannot help us here because the eighteenth century Masons were themselves confused about the matter
Founded in 1880, the Leopold Lodge is number 87 and as one of the oldest in the Clarence Valley, its 136 year history is something that Very Worshipful Brother Rod Smith doesn’t want to see forgotten.