Philippa Lee
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On a visit to the Grand Lodge of Iowa Masonic Library and Museums, I discovered a hidden gem – one of the most beautiful artistic representations of the First Three Degrees of Freemasonry – by ‘American Gothic’ artist Grant Wood.
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A remarkable account of a meeting between the French actors Fleury and Dugazon, with the famous alchemist and Freemason Count Alessandro Cagliostro.
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The article describes participation in “The Curiosity Collective,” a project guided by neuroscientist Anne-Laure Le Cunff. Over four weeks, 300 members engaged in goal-setting experiments based on her principles from the upcoming book “Tiny Experiments.” Participants focused on achievable goals, learning from experiences to improve personal habits and understanding of neuroscience.
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Mason marks have long been a source of intrigue, not only to Freemasons but to historians and archaeologists. The use of simple pictograms or symbols have been employed for millennia by artisans across the globe to identify their work. But where did they originate and why? What is a mason mark and why were they
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Freemasonry A-Z is now available in paperback and on Kindle On the path of Craft Masonry from Entered Apprentice to Master Mason and beyond, you will encounter many new and unusual words and terminologies – Freemasonry A-Z gives a concise meaning to the majority of these intriguing terms. As an additional educational appendix there is a comprehensive
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Liberté chérie was a Masonic Lodge founded in 1943 by Belgian Resistance fighters and other political prisoners at Esterwegen prison camp. It was one of three lodges founded within a Nazi concentration camp during the Second World War. In 1925, Adolf Hitler, the leader of Germany’s Nazi Party doubled down on enduring claims that the
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We need to talk about hearing loss. I started losing my hearing in my twenties. I had a bout of tinnitus that I put down to a wild evening at a Motorhead concert that lasted for days, then months. Thirty five years later, I realise that it wasn’t Lemmy’s fault after all; yet here I am
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The Antient Noble Order of the Gormogons had a brief existence in the eighteenth century; they left few records or accomplishments, and there is no indication as to their true purpose other than to parody and degrade Freemasonry, and perhaps further the Jacobite cause. Rev. A. F. A. Woodford, editor of Kenning’s Masonic Cyclopaedia, described
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Three not-so-little words Following on from ‘Drowning in my Diagnoses…part one’. 2016: Having spent several months in Egypt, I am now concerned that whatever a Tarlov Cyst is, it is causing more problems than I first thought. Whilst hiking in Egypt, I had been experiencing more back pain and had started to trip over with
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