THE ORIGIN OF THE THIRD OR MASTER MASON’S DEGREE – NEW EVIDENCE Robert L D Cooper, PM Curator Lodge Sir Robert Moray, No.1641. As we are now all aware there are written records from Lodges in Scotland from as early as 1598 and there is evidence from non-Lodge sources there were Lodges functioning (but…
Month: April 2018
Why do We Move Clockwise in Lodge? V.W. Bro. John Bower North West Mounted Police Lodge, Regina Swift Current Lodge, Swift Current Craven Lodge, Craven Grand Lodge of Saskatchewan 2016 While it only seems natural to move clockwise around the Lodge room why do we, in fact, move in that direction? Historically, time…
Reputation and Role Models: R.W. Bro. N. Nagrodski, D. D. G. M. Ottawa 2 (the following paper, extracted from various on-line sources, was presented to Cobden Masonic Lodge on the occasion of the DDGM’s Official Visit, March 13, 2018 – and reprinted in the Beacon Blog from the Sunday Masonic Papers, April 1, 2018) …
Written by Bro. Ryan Longpre, Beacon #190 (Red Deer, AB), and presented at Eureka #10 (Lacombe, AB) as part of the 2018 District Education / Visitation program, and at Beacon #190 March meeting The 6 Most Prolific & Ignored Words in Masonry We all know that masonry consists of many words, symbols, phrases and…