Articles and information from our former MasonicDictionary.com website which ran from 2000 – 2022.
The most important article of furniture in a Lodge-room is undoubtedly the altar. It is worth while, then, to investigate its character and its relation to the altars of other religious institutions. The definition of […]
All Seeing Eye An important symbol of the Supreme Being, borrowed by the Freemasons from the nations of antiquity. Both the Hebrews and the Egyptians appear to have derived its use from that natural inclination […]
By Bro. Wm. F. Kuhn It has been stated that “A Rite in Freemasonry is a collection of grades or degrees always founded on the First three degrees.” This definition is wholly misleading, and constitutes […]
The City of York, in the North of England, is celebrated for its traditional connection with Freemasonry in that kingdom. No topic in the history of Freemasonry has so much engaged the attention of modern […]
On the 24th of April, 1738, Pope Clement XII issued his Bull [In Emnenti] forbidding the practice of Freemasonry by the members of the Roman Catholic Church. Many of the Freemasons of Italy continued, however, […]
The Grand Lodge of England assumed that title in the year 1813, because it was the n formed by the Union of the Grand Lodge of the Ancient, the “Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted […]
The Grand Orient of the United States (formerly known as The United Grand Lodge of America) is a self-styled Grand Lodge, considered clandestine by mainstream Grand Lodges in North America. The organization appears to have […]
Five miles to the East of the City of Tyre is an ancient monument, called by the natives Kabr Hairan, or the Comb of Hiram. The tradition that the King of Tyre was there interred […]
Editor’s Note: Ramsay’s Oration did not mention the Templars by name, therefore Mackey is incorrect in his comments on the matter. The theory that Freemasonry originated in the Holy Land during the Crusades, and was […]
Order of the Temple When the Knights Templar had, on account of their power and wealth, excited the fears and the cupidity of Pope Clement V, and King Philip the Fair, of France, the Order […]
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