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Monday, 06 July 2009 |
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The members of the Gate City Lodge No. 2 would like it known that Freemasonry, a centuries-old fraternal organization founded on the principles of the Enlightenment, is not racist. But some of their fellow Masons here in Georgia are spoiling the message. In June, the Worshipful Master, or leader, of the Gate City Lodge was served with complaints from two other lodges, whose Worshipful Masters were upset that Gate City had admitted a “nonwhite man” to its ranks. SOURCE ARTICLE |
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Friday, 08 May 2009 |
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A new aspect of the Guardian Light Publications News Portal will be to highlight various sites and organisations that we feel deserve further attention. The first such site that we will be honouring is actually something that we at Guardian Light Publications have had a hand in setting up! 21st Century Freemason is a site dedicated to exploring Freemasonry as it exists in the modern world. Through a collection of articles, blogs, news, and a user forum it is hoped that the site will help foster discussion about Freemasonry as it exists today, as well as the direction/s that it may take in the future. Please come and check it out and let us know what you think, it is an exciting time for Guardian Light Publications as we branch out into some other areas. We all sincerely hope that you will gain something out of our endeavours. So, go and have a look. Sign up an account and get active on the forums at 21st Century Freemason |
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Friday, 08 May 2009 |
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He is recognised as a man of many talents; poetry, farming and womanising to name but a few. But tales of Rabbie Burns seldom speak of a fondness for housework. Yet a disagreement about the authenticity of an apron belonging to The Bard has brought two Scots organisations to loggerheads. Scotland's Masons and the Burns House Museum in Dumfriesshire are locked in a row over who owns the Freemason's apron that once belonged to the poet. SOURCE ARTICLE |
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Friday, 17 October 2008 |
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The University of Sheffield's Centre for Research into Freemasonry, together with the Showroom Cinema, will screen two radical films this Autumn, documenting the mysterious world of the fraternal organisation. Forces Occultes, a Nazi propaganda film made during the 1940's, will be shown for the first time with English subtitles on Monday 13 October 2008. ... The Scottish Key, the first documentary film to look at the different theories about freemasonry and its origins, will have its UK premiere on Monday 10 November 2008. Spread across the globe, the Freemason's discrete and mysterious association has been a source of curiosity, fascination and suspicion for over 300 years. FULL ARTICLE LINK
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Wednesday, 03 September 2008 |
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Hollywood couldn't concoct a more ominous crowd. All men, they gather to perform odd rituals. Their roots go back so many centuries, no one knows exactly when they started. They recognize one another through secret handshakes and exotic symbols. And now the Freemasons have startled the world with the ultimate conspiracy — television commercials aimed at attracting new members. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Monday, 21 April 2008 |
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It's been nearly a quarter of a century since Freemasons in Utah rescinded a 60-year ban that prohibited Latter-day Saints from joining their fraternity. And while many remember the religious division that had characterized Freemasonry in the Beehive State from pioneer times, Glen Cook believes he is evidence that things are changing among his Masonic brethren. Cook, a Salt Lake criminal defense attorney and Brigham Young University law school graduate, is believed to be the first member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to be elected grand master in Utah in nearly a century, overseeing the activities of several lodges around the state and looking to make the group more open to public understanding. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Sunday, 16 March 2008 |
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At a ceremony at Prague’s Strahov Monastery on Saturday members of the Czech Republic’s two senior Masonic organisations – known as grand lodges – came together and united, when the Grand Lodge of the Czech Republic incorporated the members of the Czech Grand Orient. Marc Verdier, who is French, is the First Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of the Czech Republic. He explains the difference between the two grand lodges. “The two grand lodges were following different traditions – one was following the Anglo-Saxon or English tradition while the other was following the French, or continental, tradition. Central Europe is a specific case where both of these tendencies were strong. But the formal dispute, which was at the core of this division of Freemasonry, has nothing to do with the Czechs, the Poles, or the Hungarians. It was therefore, after a certain time, understood that the natural evolution of Freemasonry was to unite – which we did on Saturday, March 8.” FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Saturday, 08 March 2008 |
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It is with great sadness that we announce the killing of Francisco Pereiro Liz, the Grand Master of Masons of Venezuela. He was shot and killed today (March 6, 2008) during an apparent kidnapping attempt at approximately 6:00pm Venezuelan time. The members of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the District of Columbia express their sincere condolences to the family and friends of Grand Master Francisco Pereiro Liz and convey their sympathies to the Freemasons of Venezuela.
“We are outraged at the murder of Grand Master Francisco Pereiro Liz.” Akram Elias, Grand Master of Masons in Washington D.C. stated. “We strongly condemn this murder and hope that the killers are brought swiftly to justice.”
The Grand Lodge of the Republic of Venezuela is one of the many Grand Lodges from around the world set to meet in May in Washington D.C. for the 9th World Conference of Masonic Grand Lodges. PRESS RELEASE |
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Friday, 04 January 2008 |
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A group of women are looking forward to founding the first women’s Masonic Lodge in Cuba next year, and so put an end to their traditional exclusion from Freemasonry, an esoteric society which is based on the ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity. They are being helped in this endeavour by the Women’s Grand Lodge of Chile, which will send a delegation to Cuba in mid-2008 to initiate several dozen women in Havana and Pinar del Río, 157 kilometres west of the Cuban capital, the head of the Working Committee on Women’s Masonic Lodges in Cuba, Digna Gisela Medina. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Friday, 04 January 2008 |
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When Hollywood comes knocking, that's probably a clue the time has come to open the door. And the secretive, centuries-old order of Freemasonry seems to be picking up its cue. "National Treasure: Book of Secrets," which opened in theaters this weekend, is the second film in the adventure-fantasy series to shine a light on the mysterious and little-known world of the Masonic order. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Wednesday, 07 November 2007 |
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The Most Worshipful Grand Master of The United Grand Lodge of Antient, Free and Accepted Masons of England, His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent, KG, GCMG, GCVO, ADC, has been pleased to appoint Worshipful Brother Alfred Henry Ryan PAGDC, as District Grand Master for Gibraltar in succession to the late Stanley A Ward. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Saturday, 13 October 2007 |
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Freemasonry may rank with Christianity, Judaism and Islam as an official form of "religious exercise," a California court of appeals suggested in a ruling on Oct. 3. As such, Masons would fall under the protections of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA), the landmark law that says government may not infringe on religious buildings without a compelling interest. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Tuesday, 12 June 2007 |
Male undergraduates who have had enough of the "lager mentality" of university life are being encouraged to join the Freemasons.The English masonic lodge is looking to boost its numbers by actively recruiting students and staff from several UK universities. The organisation's second-in-command, assistant grand master David Williamson, started the recruitment scheme to create wider opportunities for undergraduates and other university members to enjoy freemasonry. He hopes to replicate the success of the established Oxford and Cambridge university lodges across the country. At present there are nine lodges in university cities participating in the scheme: Bath, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Durham, Exeter, Manchester, Oxford and Sheffield, but the aim is to gradually expand it beyond these universities. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Saturday, 12 May 2007 |
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Glasgow's most famous cemetery could be a giant masonic symbol, according to new research. The city's Necropolis, which is spread over 37 acres, may be one of the world's biggest Freemasonry sites. Historian Ronnie Scott claims to have discovered unseen patterns in the design of the iconic 19th-century cemetery. Research has suggested the Necropolis is a landscaped metaphor and its layout mirrors the masonic journey "from darkness to light". Later this month, Mr Scott will tell the world's first conference on the history of Freemasonry that the land may be one of Europe's most important masonic sites. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Saturday, 12 May 2007 |
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Conspiracy theorists see them everywhere, from the paintings of Da Vinci to the humble dollar bill. Real or imagined, the symbols of Freemasonry through the ages have beguiled and tantalised. Now their biggest secret may have been exposed in the heart of Scotland's biggest city. Research has suggested Glasgow Necropolis is a giant masonic symbol, fully 37 acres of landscaped metaphor. Historian Ronnie Scott has unearthed previously unseen patterns in the design of the early 19th-century cemetery. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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