Freemasonry
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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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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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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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A series exploring the influence of Freemasonry in popular culture from the 1900s onwards – originally published in The Square magazine
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A four-part series written for The Square magazine exploring mixed, Co- and female Freemasonry, and how the Fraternity and its members helped progress the emancipation and rights of women.
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Kipling’s critics are quick to include him as one of the ‘fathers’ who ‘lied’ – echoing his short poem ‘Common Form’ – ‘If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied’. From ‘Kiplings War’ Kipling has long been viewed as a propagandist and supporter of war but that was perhaps merely a
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Unfairly, history has been somewhat unsympathetic to a man regarded as an occult charlatan and a purported embarrassment to Freemasonry. His Egyptian Rite is in fact a beautiful work of Hermetic and Masonic philosophy, an introduction to higher alchemical teachings, blending what he believed were the three most honourable and noble arts in the world.
Philippa Lee 