Masons
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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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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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One of the most intriguing engravings of the 18th century shows an elegant lady holding a sword and staff, wearing a cross of the military order of Saint-Louis and, more bizarrely, wearing a Masonic apron. The engraving is entitled ‘La Découverte ou la Femme Franc-Maçon’ – roughly translated as ‘The Discovery of the Female French
Philippa Lee 