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... Annual Circular , or Grand Lodge of Scotland's Reporter , CHAPTER V. PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGES . 1. Their Jurisdiction , 2. Their Duties and Powers , PART VI . MASONIC CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS . CHAPTER I. MASONIC CRIMES , Members ...
... Annual Circular , or Grand Lodge of Scotland's Reporter , CHAPTER V. PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGES . 1. Their Jurisdiction , 2. Their Duties and Powers , PART VI . MASONIC CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS . CHAPTER I. MASONIC CRIMES , Members ...
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... annual arrears , are modern innovations wholly outside of the Landmarks , and dependent entirely on the special enactments of a comparatively recent period . Tenth Landmark . THE GOVERNMENT OF THE CRAFT , WHEN SO CONGREGATED IN A LODGE ...
... annual arrears , are modern innovations wholly outside of the Landmarks , and dependent entirely on the special enactments of a comparatively recent period . Tenth Landmark . THE GOVERNMENT OF THE CRAFT , WHEN SO CONGREGATED IN A LODGE ...
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... annual General Assemblies of the Craft , were of universal authority at the time of their adoption . Soon after 1721 , however , other Grand Lodges were established with equal powers to make regulations for their own juris- dictions ...
... annual General Assemblies of the Craft , were of universal authority at the time of their adoption . Soon after 1721 , however , other Grand Lodges were established with equal powers to make regulations for their own juris- dictions ...
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... annual General Assembly . 6. That no person shall be accepted , unless he be twenty - one years old or more . IV . THE ANCIENT INSTALLATION CHARGES . These Charges appear from their style to be very old , although their date is ...
... annual General Assembly . 6. That no person shall be accepted , unless he be twenty - one years old or more . IV . THE ANCIENT INSTALLATION CHARGES . These Charges appear from their style to be very old , although their date is ...
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... Annual Grand Lodge , as has been the ancient laudable conduct of our forefathers in every nation ; never taking a legal course but when the case can- not be otherwise decided , and patiently listening to the honest and friendly advice ...
... Annual Grand Lodge , as has been the ancient laudable conduct of our forefathers in every nation ; never taking a legal course but when the case can- not be otherwise decided , and patiently listening to the honest and friendly advice ...
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admission admitted affiliation Ahiman Rezon ancient annual appeal application appointed Assembly authority ballot body Brethren Brother bye-laws candidate ceremony character charter of constitution conferred consecrated consent daughter Lodges Deacon declared Deputy discharge duties election Entered Apprentices exercise expulsion Fellow Crafts Fraternity Freemason Freemasonry Fund Grand Clerk Grand Committee Grand Director GRAND MASTER MASON Grand Secretary Grand Steward Grand Wardens granted Hence honour initiation installation institution jewel Junior Grand Landmark Laurence Dermott Lodge of England Lodge of Scotland Lodge under dispensation Masonic law Masonic Lodge Master Masons Masters and Wardens meeting membership necessary offence Old Charges Order organisation particular Lodge Past Master petition prerogative present principles privileges Provincial Grand Lodge Provincial Grand Master punishment qualifications quarterly communication receive Regulations of 1721 SECTION Senior Warden subordinate Lodges suspension third degree trial Tyler unaffiliated Masons unwritten laws usage violation vote Worshipful Master
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Page 281 - O COME, let us sing unto the Lord: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
Page 140 - Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased ; 17 For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away : his glory shall not descend after him.
Page 281 - O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our maker. For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
Page 239 - You admit that it is not in the power of any man or body of men to make innovations in the body of Masonry.
Page 311 - If I have withheld the poor from their desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail ; Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof...
Page 53 - A mason is obliged, by his tenure, to obey the moral law ; and if he rightly understands the art, he will never be a stupid atheist, nor an irreligious libertine. But though in ancient times masons were charged in every country to be of the religion of that country or nation, whatever it was, yet it is now thought more expedient only to oblige them to that religion in which all men agree, leaving their particular opinions to themselves...
Page 137 - Thou art gone to the grave ; we no longer behold thee, Nor tread the rough paths of the world by thy side; But the wide arms of mercy are spread to enfold thee, And sinners may hope, since the Saviour hath died.
Page 144 - Forgive, blest shade, the tributary tear, That mourns thy exit from a world like this ; Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here, And stayed thy progress to the seats of bliss • No more confined to grov'ling scenes of night, No more a tenant pent in mortal clay, Now should we rather hail thy glorious flight, And trace thy journey to the realms of day.
Page 110 - That no person hereafter, who shall be accepted as a Freemason, shall be. admitted into any Lodge or Assembly, until he has brought a certificate of the time and place of his acceptation from the Lodge that accepted him, unto the Master of that limit or division where such Lodge is kept.
Page 168 - You agree that no visitors shall be received into your Lodge without due examination, and producing proper vouchers of their having been initiated in a regular Lodge.