Master Mason

THE ceremony of opening and conducting the business of a Lodge of Master Masons is nearly the same as in the Entered Apprentice and Fellow Crafts’ Degrees, already explained. All the business of a “Blue Lodge” (a Lodge of three Degrees) is done in the Lodge while opened on this Degree, except that of entering […]

Fellowcraft

Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5Chapter 6 | Chapter 7 | Chapter 8 | Appendix Read: Fellow of the Craft, By Wisdom a House is Built: A Treatise on the Second Degree of Freemasonry FELLOW CRAFT, OR SECOND DEGREE. by Malcolm C. Duncan, 1866 I SHALL omit […]

Entered Apprentice

ENTERED APPRENTICE, OR FIRST DEGREE Preface | Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5Chapter 6 | Chapter 7 | Chapter 8 | Appendix Read: The Apprentice, The World and the Universe as One: A Treatise on the First Degree of Freemasonry by Malcolm C. Duncan, 1866 Seven Freemasons, […]

The Origin of Freemasonry

by Thomas Paine1818 IT is always understood that Free-Masons have a secret which they carefully conceal; but from every thing that can be collected from their own accounts of Masonry, their real secret is no other than their origin, which but few of them understand; and those who do, envelope it in mystery The Society […]

The Meaning of Masonry – Chapter V

Contents | Introduction | Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 by W.L. Wilmshurst[1922] Chapter V. FREEMASONRY IN RELATION TO THE ANCIENT MYSTERIES. EVERY Mason is naturally desirous to know something of the origin and history of the Craft. The available literature on the subject is diffuse and […]

The Meaning of Masonry – Chapter III

Contents | Introduction | Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 by W.L. Wilmshurst[1922] Chapter III FURTHER NOTES ON CRAFT SYMBOLISM. “There is no darkness but ignorance.”-Shakespeare “Lighten our darkness, we beseech Thee, and defend us from all perils and dangers of this night.”-Anglican Liturgy “Belov’d All-Father, and […]

The Meaning of Masonry – Chapter II

Contents | Introduction | Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 by W.L. Wilmshurst[1922] Chapter II. MASONRY AS A PHILOSOPHY SIGNS are not wanting that a higher Masonic consciousness is awakening in the Craft. Members of the Order are gradually, and here and there, becoming alive to the […]

The Meaning of Masonry – Chapter I

Contents | Introduction | Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 by W.L. Wilmshurst[1922] Chapter I. THE DEEPER SYMBOLISM OF FREEMASONRY CANDIDATE proposing to enter Freemasonry has seldom formed any definite idea of the nature of what he is engaging in. Even after his admission he usually remains […]

CATHOLICS AND THE FREEMASON ‘RELIGION’

Fr. William Saunders The Catholic Diocese of Arlington What are the Masons? Are Catholics allowed to belong to this organization?—A Reader. The origins of the Masons, or what is officially called Freemasonry, are hard to pinpoint. With the decline of cathedral building in the aftermath of the Protestant movement, the guilds of masons began accepting […]

Why does Freemasonry have enemies?

Why Freemasonry has Enemies

THE SHORT TALK BULLETINThe Masonic Service Association of the United StatesVOL. 27 MAY 1949 NO. 5author unknown Say “Anti-Masonry” to the average American Mason and he will think you speak only of the Morgan affair of 1826. So Many books have been written on this, so many speeches made about it, so many study clubs […]