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Hi Doug, What you have been told is not accurate here in the British Isles and definitely not here in England. Quarterly Communications (meetings of Grand Lodge) here are not open to Master Masons unless they have applied to Grand Lodge in advance for permission to attend. Those eligible to...

I would just say that you should steer clear of a Jester who dresses as a Prince. As far as his Masonic credentials go he was very briefly (less than a year) a Freemason under the UGLE, where he had been proposed by a naive Freemason who should have known better and was then summarily expelled...

Re: Greetings, anyone here from Bosnia and Herzego Not there but closer than many on this Forum, I'm in England

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It wasn't a "secret society" before 1717, it just wasn't the same Fraternity that it is now. The majority of Lodges in the British Isles of the 1600s had only a handful of non-Operative Masons most were still actually operative, ie actual workers in stone. If it had been "secret", it is...

When you talk to the Secretary of 9659 he will tell you that attendance to the main event will be nigh on impossible especially as I suspect you are not eligible to attend Grand Lodge anyway. To attend QC you must either be a sitting Warden or Master of a Lodge or a Past Master of same or have...

Well not really no. I peruse the websites of many foreign Grand Lodges and it has never cropped up in my mind that I could try and pop along to the events that they organise for themselves. As I mentioned previously, the UGLE will extend an invitation to those who it wishes to invite who are not...

It's a lovely thought but to be honest just a tad unrealistic. Once our Local Grand Lodges (Ireland & Scotland) are taken into account we have over 300,000 local Masons who may want to take part, that's without including the deputations that will attend from the Grand Lodges around the world...

It's not a subject that can't be simply answered on a Forum as it is based on the about 80 year history of how these Degrees came about and were grafted to the Craft Degrees's story in the late 1700s. You need to read about five books to get the actual basis of the situation. However and for...

First a correction, we will not be celebrating the 300th Anniversary of the founding of the UGLE but of the first Grand Lodge of England that went on to be one of the unified Grand Lodges that became the UGLE in 1813. If you Gents actually mean attending the Quarterly Communications of Grand...

There will be many factors come into play. In no particular order a couple will be: do you have permanent residence Visa, why do you want to become a Freemason, why are you not joining a Lodge in your own country, can you afford both in money and time the commitment to become a Freemason. do you...

At the moment you're too young to be a Freemason but if you're in America you could possible join the Order of Demolay.

Hi Johan, This board will not be able to assist you other than pointing you on your way as it is based in the USA. However as has been mentioned your first port of call is the Grand Lodge of South Africa it's website is here: http://www.grandlodge.co.za and from that you will be able to lift...

Hi from Kent.

These are questions that should really be answered by the Lodge in question. I am of course assuming that as you are Petitioning you are talking to someone in that Lodge.

Freemasonry is neither a religion nor a competitor to religion, it requires that its members believe in God that is as far as it goes with regard to the religious beliefs of Freemason. The setting for our ceremonies, King Solomon's Temple, is not for a religious reason but because our...

Freemasonry does not describe itself as a Cult and nor do we Freemasons so there is nothing to defend against. As we can't be held responsible for non-Masons' gullibility in believe such silly ideas. If someone told me that I was a member of a Cult I would ask them to explain what they meant...

What or which two Lodges are you talking about?

Co-Masonry should not be confused with women-only Orders as they are very different ideas.

It's a good book but it won't teach you anything about Freemasonry being written as it was by an interested non-Mason. It was first Published in 1989 and he subsequently wrote another book called "A Pilgrim's Path" published in 1993 which detailed some of the nutters he came up against while...