Articles and information from our former MasonicDictionary.com website which ran from 2000 – 2022.
Quator Coronati: Four Crowned Martyrs Christian marytrs who became associated with Freemasonry via the operative stonemasons. Also known by the Latin name Quator Coronati, a name associated with a research group in England. – Source: […]
Prince Hall Masonry Prince Hall was a prominent citizen of Boston during the American Revolutionary era. He lived from 1735 until 1807 and is the founder of the first Black Masonic Lodge. Hall was freed […]
In 1818, Brother Preston, the author of the Illustrations of Masonry, bequeathed £300 in Consols, the interest of which was to provide for the annual delivery of a lecture according to the system which he had […]
The method of Entering, Passing, and Raising candidates in the Lodges of Pennsylvania differs so materially from that practiced in the other States of the Union, that it cannot be considered as a part of […]
An androgynous society, both sexes, of Masonic adoption, established, says Ragon, at Paris in 1737. It made great pretensions to high antiquity, claiming that it had its origin in the instructions brought by Pythagoras from Egypt into Greece, […]
By Bro. J.L. Carson, Virginia The history of Ireland since the days when King John of England (1199 to 1216) “built several forts and settled the English Colony and Civil Government” there, has been one […]
By Bro. Wm. F. Kuhn, P. G. M., Missouri (DELIVERED AT THE BI-CENTENNIAL OBSERVANCE OF THE GRAND LODGE OF MISSOURI) The formation of the Grand Lodge of England, on St. John’s Day in June, 1717, […]
Operative Masons We distinguish Operative Masons, builders of the Middle Ages, founders of Masonry, from Spectulative Masons, present members of the Fraternity, using the builders tools as emblems and symbols. The Latin for toil, or […]
Right: George Schoonover was the man who started The National Masonic Research Society, which published the Masonic periodical The Builder from 1915 – 1930. Organized in Iowa, 1914, the Society commenced the publication of the Builder, January, […]
The Royal Mother Lodge of the Three Globes, which had been established at Berlin in 1740, and recognized as a Grand Lodge by Frederick the Great in 1744, renounced the Rite of Strict Observance in 1771, and, declaring itself […]
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