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BACK NEXT Spring 2009 Issue 48 Letter from the Editor Grand Secretary's Column Address by The Grand Master News and Views On The Level Masonic Education International News Royal Arch News Freemasonry Beyond The Craft A Bit Rum The Business of Freemasonry Freemasonry and Suffrage Graduates into Freemasonry The Meaning of the Sphinx Westminster Bridge Masonic from its Foundation Off the Record Review: Scottish Rite Ritual Review: The Compasses and the Cross Review: The Sphinx Mystery Review: A Handbook for the Freemason's Wife Letters to the Editor Library & Museum of Freemasonry Grand Lodge Grand Charity Masonic Samaritan Fund RMBI RMTGB Canon Richard Tydeman: Hidden Mysteries Copyright 1997-2009 Grand Lodge Publications Ltd Designed and Maintained by: Cyberpoint Limited

FREEMASONRY TODAY Societas Rosicruciana In Anglia The Society of Rosicrucians In the last issue of Freemasonry Today we surveyed the ceremonies conferred in the grades of the First Order of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (Iº - IVº). We will now examine the structure of the Society at regional level where the Colleges are grouped into Provinces administered by a Chief Adept. While each College functions as an individual unit conferring the first four grades, any advancement beyond the IVº Grade of Philosophus into the Second Order of the Society is the sole prerogative of the Supreme Magus or Chief Adept ... The Society of Rosicrucians The Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia is administered by the High Council from the Society’s headquarters located at Stanfield Hall, 88 Hampstead High Street, London. It regulates the affairs of the Society and extends control over a series of nine graded ceremonies, the philosophy of which, is mirrored in other rituals practised within Freemasonry ... The Rosicrucian Furore A cipher note made by Freemason, Elias Ashmole, during the early 1650’s reads: "The Fratres RC: live about Strasburg : 7 miles from thence in a mon[a]st[e]ry." In fact, there were no fratres R.C. anywhere, but for nearly a decade after the printing of the Fama Fraternitatis, the first `Rosicrucian Manifesto’, by Wilhelm Wessel in 1614, a ‘battle of the books’ convinced thousands of European scholars that there were. ... The Rose Croix Of all the many orders and degrees outside the Craft and the Royal Arch, there is no doubt that for many the pinnacle of their Freemasonry is membership of the Ancient and Accepted Rite. The 18º is the one 'beyond' the Craft that they would be most reluctant to lose. It is very rare to hear any member speak lightly about the Rose Croix. They are right to value it so highly. The degrees beyond the Craft are many and varied. Whilst there are ways of classifying ... The First Rosicrucians An innocent trip from Heilegenkreuz in the Tyrol to Innsbruck in the autumn of 1612 brought a shock to Adam Haslmayr, musician, theosopher, medical celebrity and notary public to the Archduke Maximilian. On the orders of the Jesuit inquisitor Guarinoni, Haslmayr was arrested and sentenced to slavery on the Mediterranean galleys. Why? In March Haslmayr had published his answer to the Fama Fraternitatis – the Fame of the Fraternity – an extraordinary ...   Societas Rosicruciana In Anglia © Grand Lodge Publications Ltd 1997-2009