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Freemasons Say They’re Needed Now More Than Ever. So Why Are Their Ranks Dwindling? November 28, 20208:00 AM ET CHRISTIANNA SILVA This article appeared on the homepage of the US National Public Radio website this morning. In 1959, about 4.5% of all American men were Freemasons, but in recent years membership has fallen off roughly…
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Source: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-library-returns-books-stolen-by-nazis-to-freemasons/a-51533157 Germany: Library returns books stolen by Nazis to Freemasons The Bavarian State Library has returned over 200 books stolen from Freemasons by the Nazis over 80 years ago. The library said it is facing up to the responsibility of its cooperation with the Nazi party. The Bavarian State Library returned 203 books to the German…
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The content of this video has been taken from an 1880 essay by Hugh M’Curdy. It was published in “The Voice of Masonry” in that year. Its tone, language and content are very representative of Masonic lectures of that period, with an emphasis on moral uplift, rather than the more modern approach foregrounding historical and…
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Now that the threat of COVID is receding (in Australia at least) and we’re all contemplating a return to lodge and chapter work, here’s four minutes of good advice to crank back up our rusty ritual! This short talk by Frances Millburg was originally published on the Ninth Arch BBS. Now it’s a 4 minute…
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This little gem was in the news a few months ago. Freemasonry on the runway, courtesy of 9 News (https://www.9news.com.au). Qantas weighs in after symbols on engine covers stir up conspiracy theorists Eagle-eyed conspiracy theorists have spotted a series of symbols on Qantas engine covers, which are linked to centuries-old secret societies. The engine covers are black…
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The specialist numismatic publication Coin Week published an interesting article about Mark Pennies last Friday. While it is written from a non-Masonic perspective and contains some egregious (and all too familiar) falsehoods, it does have some interesting information about the history and provenance of the pennies and value to the world of coin collectors in…
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This article appeared in Time Magazine on 13 August this year. I’d highly recommend John Dickie’s Book, How the Freemasons made the Modern World, from which it is drawn. Details of how to get a copy appear at the bottom of the article. Freemasons, with signs for the various lodges, c1733. Getty Images/Historica Graphica Collection BY JOHN…
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I found out a couple of days ago that the site had outgrown its hosting capacity and that updates weren’t publishing. It turned out that I had maxed out the page limit. As a result I’m pleased to announce the launch of the ‘all new’ From the Quarries, which has been completely re-written from the…
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I ran across this article online today and thought it worth sharing. A tribute to an operative brother! A selfie set in stone: hidden portrait by cheeky mason found in Spain 900 years on A British art historian’s painstaking study of the cathedral in Santiago de Compostela uncovered a medieval prank He is a medieval…
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A short text from the archives … by Bro. Arthur E. Powell First published in The Master Mason — October 1926 The following excerpts from a chapter of a most interesting little book, The Magic of Freemasonry, by Brother Powell, to which reference has already been made by Tim BOOKMAN, is a fine example of…
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It’s been a while since I posted any content, and here’s the reason… A couple of months ago I had the honour of being contacted by the Grand Scribe Ezra of the Supreme Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Queensland asking me to put together a promotional promotional video for the chapter. This coincided with my…
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It’s been a while since my last video. I’m honoured to be working on a couple of large Masonic projects at the moment, which are taking up quite a bit of time and I’m really looking forward revealing them when the time is right. In the meantime, I’ve uploaded a few more historical texts to…
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A video based upon a lecture prepared by Rt. Ex. Comp. G. L. Shaw Within Research RAC No 100 on 23rd June, 1970. Presented to the companions of Southern Cross RAC on the evening of 25 September, 2020.
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I have recently been looking at 18th Century Freemasonry, during the period of the Great Masonic Schism. This was a tempestuous period in the history of the Craft and a number of competing Lodges, Chapters and mock-masonic organisations proliferated. This video looks at advertisements for two of these organisations that were published between 1724 and…
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Just presented via Zoom to the brethren on Halcyon Lodge. The Magic Flute and Freemasonry is a brief examination of some of the Masonic elements in, influences on and interpretations of Mozart’s Magic Flute – first performed just 9 weeks before the composer’s death in 1791. Credit to the following sources of audio, images and…
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This short video was presented to the the Qld Royal Arch Study Circle on the evening of 25 August 2020. Thanks to the 50 companions who attended and to GSE Mervyn Gray for affording me the opportunity to do so.
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The Legend of the True Cross is a sequence of frescoes painted by Piero della Francesca in the Basilica of San Francesco in Arezzo. It is his largest work, and generally considered one of his finest, and an early Renaissance masterpiece. Its theme, derived from the popular 13th century book on the lives of saints…
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