Craft Masonry
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A new Video! By request … This video is taken from an anonymous text and outlines the different officers within the Craft Lodge, their duties, and some elements of their symbolic significance.
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A new Video! In response to the comments that I’ve been receiving on the website and YouTube channel from non-Masons, here is a short video – FAQ about Freemasonry, which I hope answers the most frequent queries. Don’t forget – If you want to be a Mason, just ask one 👍
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A New Video! After a few weeks of some heavy content, here’s a bit of levity. There only seem to be a few Masonic jokes in circulation, and these are recycled and reused regularly (a bit like Toasts to the Visitors). If you know of any more you’d like to share, please put them in…
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A new Video! ‘Gavels in Freemasonry‘ is a short, undated, text by Paul M. Bessel. The title is pretty self-explanatory. This video is for RW Bro. Leitch, who only asks questions which have no answer. 😉
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A new Video! This video is Part three, and the final part, of Wor. Bro. Rev. F. de P. Castells impressive and comprehensive lecture from 1914. This section examines what Castells describes as ‘the metrology of the Craft‘.
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A new Video! This video is part two of the series started last week. Therre is just so much in this lecture by Wor. Bro. Rev. F. de P. Castells from 1914 that there will be a Part III published next week. This week’s extract concentrates on the number 15. Enjoy!
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This is a long and complex lecture by the worthy and estimable Brother F. de P. Castells from 1914. As a result of its complexity, it will be published in two parts. This first section treats the Masonic significance of the numbers 3, 5 and 7. Part two will examine the symbolism of the number…
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In anticipation of Christmas day, which is just one short week away, this is a short video from a text by Bro. David Downie of St Trinian’s Lodge 2050, the Isle of Man. I am not sure of the date of this work, so if I have breached any copyright I sincerely apologise and will,…
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This video is an extract from William Shaver’s Masonic Monitor of 1907, which is itself based upon Webb’s ‘Freemason’s Monitor’ of 1816. It gives an overview of the features of the 5 Orders of Architecture with a particular focus on our old friends, the Doric, Ionic and Corinthian.
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A new Video! A commentary on and analysis of the 25 “ancient, universal and immutable” landmarks published by Albert Mackey in the American Quarterly Review of Freemasonry in 1858. Although clearly dated, error strewn and contentious to the modern reader, Mackey’s “landmarks” form a fascinating side-road in the histoy of the Craft. The paper “The…
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A new Video! This is a very early address given by De Witt Clinton in 1793 upon the occasion of his Installation. In it he outlines the fundamental tenets of the Craft, which have remained unchanged to this day. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
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A new Video! Next year is the 100th anniversary of the discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb by Howard Carter. I had intended to save this video for that anniversary, but I’m going though a bit af an Ancient Egyptian phase at the moment, so here it is. This anonymous lecture was first presented in January…
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A new Video! An interesting little undated and anonymous presentation from some time in the 1940’s or 50’s I believe, which details the ‘12 Original Points‘ of antient freemasonry. I’m not too sure of it’s historical veracity, but it will be of particular interest to Royal Arch masons. I wasn’t aware that any such details…
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The Great Masonic Conspiracy. This video is a response to the viewers of this channel who believe that Freemasonry is a vast, world encompassing and ominous conspiracy (Hint: it’s not). Watch out though – this video is exactly 13 minutes long. Surely that can’t just be a coincidence?
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This week’s video is an anonymous talk from August 1953, Curious Masonic Words looks at some of the strange terms used in our ceremonials and identifies their origin, meaning and provenance. The talk is clearly American, but my copy has no authorial attribution beyond the date.
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A new Video! This week’s presentation, Why Symbolism?, is taken from the book “The Old Past Master” by Charles H. Claudy which was first published in 1924. It takes the form of a conversation between a new Mason and an ‘old past master’, who shares his wisdom by explaining why Freemasonry is so concerned with…
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From the William Harvey collection. The Wages of an Entered Apprentice is a meditation on the significance of Corn, Wine and Oil in Masonic Ceremonial. It was originally published in 1944.
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