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Spring 2005 - Issue 32 - Index
As a member of a lodge committee whose object was to recommend lodge members for promotion I was taken aback to find that certain members of the lodge came and quietly lobbied for a higher rank than they might perhaps have expected. I have been thinking about this since receiving two letters which are published in the letters page of this issue. One suggests that a lack of promotion is the cause of Brethren leaving the Craft; the other is suggesting that too much is spent on regalia, that a more modest approach to distinctive garments might better serve the cause of masonic charity ...
Royal visitor to Cambridge — Caicos Islands Lodge makes Masonic history — One-Day Classes in New York — Grand Charity speedy response to tsunami disaster — Durham target of £3.25 million — Email scam affecting Freemasons — Devon Masons in character — Victoria Lodge Masonathon — Ealing does it for charity — West Lancashire money for cancer — Masons working for blind children — Brass bands, carols and mince pies — The Lord Mayor's City of London Masonic Banquet — Gone but not forgotten On The Level Cheshire supports refuge — Cornish support for hospice — Lodges venture across the Channel — Masonic clock — Canonbury Masonic Research Centre — Centre for Research into Freemasonry — The Cornerstone Society — Quatuor Coronati
A big day for Durham Mark Masonry — Royal and Select Masters in Dorset — Red Cross of Constantine Millennium Fund — Kent Mark Masons into publishing — Mark Masonic antiques road show — Cheshire Mark Masons target charity
New Grand Master of Israel — A Sovereign Grand Lodge of Malta — New Zealand Freemasons work with Royal Society — Masonic conference in Sweden — East Africa celebrates centenary — California Masons working for children
There is no jolly message for you in this article. We have just witnessed the greatest tragedy in the living memory of many of us, and I believe we must not forget it unless and until we have learned something from it. We’re back with Chaos versus Harmony ...
It was with genuine concern I heard that Tim Lewis, Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons, had, after more than seven years in office, found it necessary to consider retirement due to unfortunate health problems. My concern was shared by many within Freemasonry. It was, therefore, with very mixed emotions that I took my seat in his bright and comfortable office overlooking Pall Mall and St. James’s Palace. There was much I wished to ask him ...
As with any communication medium, there is obviously good and bad. With the internet, in particular, you find that the controls you have over what you see, hear, download or print, are extremely flexible and precise. So much so that confusion is never very far away! Let’s take a brief look at the basic rules of engagement ...
As part of the questions to the Candidate before Passing to the Second Degree, the Master asks: ‘What is Freemasonry?’ The Candidate responds: ‘A peculiar system of morality, veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.’ Upon reflection, this dialogue is quite remarkable ...
One of the architectural glories of London, and a seventeenth century masterpiece, Sir ChristopherWren’s Temple Bar was uprooted in 1878 and summarily dumped as a pile of stones in a vacant lot in Farringdon Road. It was subsequently removed to Hertfordshire and eventually became a forgotten ruin. Only recently has it been restored to the nation’s capital city ...
In the last issue of Freemasonry Today we looked at the practice of ‘temple sleep’, conducted at selected sacred sites by numerous ancient cultures in order to obtain dreams for initiation, divination, or healing purposes. It was noted that 50 years ago the novelist and poet Lawrence Durrell had found evidence that modern people sleeping near ancient Greek dream temples experienced unusual, powerful, and disturbing dreams, causing him to wonder if the ancient dreams experienced at those places were somehow able to linger and be picked up, if in a garbled fashion, by dreaming minds much later on ...
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. It is granted only after a compulsory period of four years service in the First Order with an additional mandatory year between the VIº and VIIº Adept grades ...
The Canonbury Masonic Research Centre held its sixth international conference which drew speakers from the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Italy, Sweden, Hungary and Bulgaria. John Hamill, Director of Communications of the United Grand Lodge of England, began with a paper entitled ‘Freemasonry and Religion — the English view’ ...
Once more Michael Baigent and I made our way to the Grand Lodge of Scotland in George Street, Edinburgh; we were delighted at the opportunity to return. Librarian, Robert Cooper, received us in his study on the second floor with his usual warmth and big smile. On his desk was a pile of manuscripts and books, deliberately arranged to tantalise our curiosity. We were back because on our last visit we had not touched on the important subject of the Library which comprises over ten thousand volumes and manuscripts. We were to be treated to an exceptional and fascinating insight into Scottish Freemasonry as it is documented from its earliest days ...
I met a traveller from an antique land, who said: I’ve just seen some quite remarkable masonry! Our visitor’s remark was hardly surprising as we’d just come from the Installation meeting of the Stonic Lodge – an event at which some quite remarkable masonry is usually guaranteed – but, sadly, this was not what he was alluding to ...
One Day classes — The Eye in the Pyramid — Artistic licence, click here — Music and the lodge — Mysteries of the promotion — Fathers in Freemasonry — Charity v Regalia — Spelling — Unknown jewel — Albino Freemasons? — Unreliable and Forlorn Hope Lodge
¤ Shamic Wisdon in the Pyramid Texts, The Mystical Tradition of Ancient Egypt, by Jeremy Naydler ¤ Bibiliografia De La Masoneria, by José Antonio Ferrer Benimeli and Susana Cuartero Escobes ¤ Gardens of the Gods, Myth, Magic and Meaning, by Christopher McIntosh ¤ The Myth-Maker, John Wood 1704-1754, by Kirsten Elliott
A Freemason is charged - among other things - to study such of the Liberal Arts and Sciences as may lie within the compass of his attainment. These are seven in number and are named as Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Arithmetic, Geometry, Music and Astronomy. Scholars in the Middle Ages divided these arts and sciences into two groups, three in one and four in the other. Grammar, Rhetoric and Logic became known as the Trivium of ‘Way of Three’, while the other four formed the Quadrivium or ‘Way of Four’ ...
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