Brother Max joined Freemasonry in May 1963 and was raised as a Freemason in February 1964 in lodge
Lyndhurst . He also joined the
Hobart Lodge of Research
in September of that same year. Max as ever was keen to participate
and add innovation and new ideas to what ever he was a member of and he
became a founding member of Lodge Meridian in May 1964. Lodge
Meridian was the second of the new concept of daytime lodges in
Tasmania . Prior to this type of lodge all meetings of Freemasons were held of an evening.
Max continued to participate in lodge activities and became master of lodge
Meridian in May 1973. He then took up the reins in the
Hobart lodge of research
by becoming its Master for two years in 1998 and 1999. Lodge Meridian
closed its doors in August 1994 and Max transferred to the remaining
daytime lodge, Lodge
Macquarie.
FREEMASONS in the city celebrated universal brotherhood day on Sunday.
The brotherhood believes in secularism and their motto is to study the mysteries of science and nature.
The re are as many as 10 million Freemasons around
the globe. In Pune there are nine lodges with two temples and a
membership of around 250.
The first Freemason Lodge in
India was formed in Kolkata in 1735. It spread to Mumbai and then to other parts of
India . Currently there are 352 lodges under the
Grand Lodge of India. Notable Indian Freemasons include Swami
Vivekananda, Motilal Nehru, JRD Tata, Rajendra Prasad and
S Radhakrishnan .
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.
The
cleanup of
Pleasant
Valley
Thursday
was orchestrated by a group that has a fairly lengthy history but has
not received much local publicity, a Prince Hall-affiliated Masonic
Lodge.
Prince Hall Freemasonry is named for its founder, who along with 14
other free blacks, joined a British Army lodge of Masons who were
stationed in
Boston in 1775. Today, there are more than 4,500 Prince Hall - affilliated Masonic Lodges in more than 40 jurisdictions.
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.
'It is surprising that Masonic activity in prison camps should be almost as old as Freemasonry itself, but what is not so surprising is that it should have happened at all, in that its binding and secretive nature lent itself immediately to the conduct of clandestine activity.
It also provided a ready-made set of spiritual values in which a man could vest his belief and therefore contributed much to the need to combat despair and loss of hope that constantly beset the prisoner.'
So begins a fascinating account of Masonic activity by prisoners of war written by Keith Flynn OBE. It begins in the middle of the eighteenth century and continues the story through to the end of the Second World War.
The 2007 Freemasons Art Exhibition
to be held in the Adelaide Masonic Centre
254 North Terrace, Adelaide
on 15,16 and 20-23 September 2007
Under the patronage of Lady Neal, AM DStJ, the Freemasons Foundation Inc, the charitable arm of Freemasons of South Australia and Northern Territory, is delighted to sponsor the third Freemasons Art Exhibition which will be held in the magnificent setting of the Great Hall of the Adelaide Masonic Centre, 254 North Terrace, Adelaide on Saturday, Sunday 15-16 September and Thursday, 20 to Sunday, 23 September 2006.
CLARK FREEPORT, Pampanga: Some 2,000 Filipino and 800 foreign delegates of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons in the
Philippines will hold their annual communications (Ancom-2007) at the Clark Expo Millennium Hall on April 26 to 28.
Romeo Yu, Most Worshipful Grand Lodge master, will preside during the three-day Ancom that will feature the elections of a new set of officers for the Grand Lodge.
AURORA
- When Allison Stern was visiting abroad, the
WellsCollege senior came across a Freemason tomb in a cemetery that she had toured.
That, coupled with what Stern had learned about the fraternal organization during a
United States history class, prompted her to focus on the history of the Freemasons for the topic of her senior thesis.
"At a Freemasonry lodge you can find a lawyer and a janitor joined in brotherhood," Stern said during a reading of her thesis paper held at Scipio Lodge 110 Tuesday evening.
Grand Lodge of Scotland will be hosting the "International Conference of History of Freemasonry" in May 2007. This will be in Edinburgh, Freemason's Hall, George Street: 25 May - 27 May 2007
Full details and ongoing new of the event will be available. Non Masonic people, students, and interested people may also attend any of the many sessions available. Accommodation lists and costs as well as activities for those that accompany you, but do not wish to attend the sessions are catered for as well.
