Here’s the thing, anyone researching Freemason history will find a time before the Second World War (1939-1945) when Freemasons and masonic lodges were overtly in the public space. They participated in parades
In 1797, she had identified her father as a loyalist Mason, and he was evidently affiliated with the “regular” lodges in Galloway that in October of that year celebrated the British Fleet’s victory over the French at Camperdown.59In 1798, the Vardills moved to London, where Anna Jane’...
Why? Because tracing boards, like the lectures in our American lodges, are not lessons in themselves. They are references to a vast body of literature and philosophical doctrine which is at the core of Renaissance [i] thought. Someone who really wants to understand the tracing boards (and, ...
So obvious is this that some modern preceptors of Lodges of Instruction have to my knowledge altered the position of the left hand in order to make it conform to the story, but I venture to think that in so doing they are committing a very serious mistake, nothing less than the removal ...