The experience of becoming a member of a Masonic Lodge is divided into three ceremonial stages that Masons call “degrees.” The three degrees of Freemasonry are Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft, and Master Mason. They are loosely based upon the journeyman system, which was used to educate Medie...
Brother Coil was past master of Riverside Masonic Lodge No. 635, past high priest of Riverside Chapter No. 67, R.A.M. and commander of Riverside Commandery No. 28, K.T. A member of the Long Beach Scottish Rite Bodies, he was an honorary 33˚and a member of Al Malaikah Shrine ...
The United Religious, Military, and Masonic Orders of the Temple and of St John of Jerusalem, Palestine, Rhodes, and Malta: Known more commonly as the Knights Templar (which is only named after the historical order and does not claim to descend literally therefrom); an body of three orders ...
membership and the foundations from which they come, serving to link Freemasons to the transcendent. However, within the lodge, the conflicts of the sacred volumes are shunned, instead to embrace their celebration of the divine. What this represents is an open democratic society governed by mutual...
The Master Builders: A History of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania The Master Builders is something of a paradox. Commissioned by the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania to commemorate its two-hundredth anniversary of independence from the English Grand Masonic Lodge, the book ...
“Every Masonic Lodge is a temple of religion; and its teachings are instruction in religion.”- Freemason Manual, Morals and Dogma,page 213 “It is the Dead that govern. The Living only obey.”-Freemason Manual, Morals and Dogma,page 315 ...
"Every Masonic Lodge is a temple of religion, and its teachings are instructions in ... the universal, eternal, immutable religion..." Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, by Albert Pike, Washington D.C., 1958, pp. 213, 219. "[Masonry is] ... ...
The real nature of Freemasonry is a spiritual force behind each member, improving themselves morally by associating with other like minded individuals. Also, Freemasonry acts as a social organization, promoting the interaction between like minded members within the lodge to build friendly bonds between...
Societas Rosicrucian in Anglia- is a Masonic Order (English Constitution) for those Craft Master Mason holden with a Trinitarian Christian belief, yet also considered to have an esoteric enquiring nature.It was founded on 1stJune 1867.My mother College (=lodge) was consecrated on 21stJan 1886 (...
some who may not be members of the Scottish Rite or our Masonic fraternity. Educating our members and communities as to how we are changing the lives of children with dyslexia is critical to our mission of reaching those in need of our service and to those who we seek to support our effo...