A new Video! The Craft occupies a small, but intriguing niche in the history of cinema. This video explores some of the more notable examples of Freemasonry on the silver screen and will test your filmic knowledge with a particularly challenging quiz at the end!
Month: August 2021
The Ancient and Accepted Rite
A new Video! By request, this is an excerpt from the Higher Degrees Handbook by W. Bro. J.S.M Ward giving an introduction to the degrees of the Ancient and Accepted Rite, with a particular focus on the Rose Croix and Grand Elect Knight Kadosh degrees. It is undated, but from the language used appears to…
The Mystery of the Green Dragon Tavern and the Boston Tea Party
A new Video! For our American brethren, this is a paper by Edward M. Gair which looks at the close Masonic connections with the Boston Tea Party, the event which triggered the American War of Independence. It looks at the crucial role played by the Green Dragon Tavern, lodge building, meeting place and safe house…
Masonic blue
A new Video! This anonymous presentation from July 1934 examines why ‘Blue’ is universally recognised as the Masonic colour and comes up with two contradictory theories to explain it!
From the Quarries 