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Summer 2008
Issue 45
Letter from the Editor
Grand Lodge News
News and Views
On The Level
International News
Beyond the Craft
Perambulating the Lodge
Masonic Dining and Celebration
Interview: The Grand Chancellor
The Orator
Walking the Way of Saint James
Abd el-Kader: Algerian Nationalist and Freemason
Province of Cambridgeshire Library & Museum
Brother Lightfoote's Journal
Review: Committed to the Flames
Review: The Mythology of Secret Societies
Review: The Dawn of Astrology
Letters to the Editor
Internet
Library & Museum of Freemasonry
Grand Lodge Quarterly Communication
Convocation of Supreme Grand Chapter
RMBI
Masonic Samaritan Fund
Grand Charity
RMTGB
Canon Richard Tydeman: Looking unto the Rock
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The Operatives
The Operatives
It is not generally appreciated, that prior to the formation of the Grand Lodge of England in 1717, there were operative lodges which had been functioning well before that date, and were subsequently warranted by the new grand body. In 1912 the Transactions of the Leicester Lodge of Research No.2429 featured a paper by Dr. Thomas Carr explaining that a legitimate Guild of Operative Masons still existed, which also had members who were speculative masons. A short time after in May 1913 at Bedford House (just off the Strand), Dr. Carr who held ...
The Operatives
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