A Very Masonic Christmas Card Mailing in aid of the Masonic Charitable Foundation

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In a collaboration between the Masonic Charitable Foundation, the United Grand Lodge of England and Isle of Man Post Office.

The Isle of Man Post Office are delighted to offer all Lodges the opportunity to send their Christmas cards using the 300 Years of Freemasonry Stamp collection.

Proposed New Chapter for Oxfordshire

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Over the last few months, there has been a considerable amount of activity within Semper Paratus Lodge concerning the possible formation of a new Chapter. Due to the increasing success of the Lodge, which had 14 members when it relocated from London to the Province 5 years ago and now has over 40, there is a need to provide additional stimulus and growth within the Semper Paratus circle.

Historical Origins of the Mark Degree

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The Mark is a ceremony or degree [sometimes called the ‘friendly’ degree], conferrable today only to Master Masons and forms part of a hierarchical organization. In Craft Masonry it was quite a late innovation making its appearance during the mid-1700s.  However we do know that Operative Masons, without any kind of ceremony, were taking marks 150 years before the Mark came into use as part of that particular ceremony.

Alain Bernheim: My Approach to Masonic History

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As a French citizen who was successively a member of the Grand Orient of France – ‘that irregular body’ –, then of the Grande Loge Nationale Française – a regular one –, then of the United Grand Lodges of Germany and, for the past ten years, of the Swiss Grand Lodge Alpina, Alan presents his approach to Masonic history