Education, Charity and Self-help in Warrington during the Eighteenth Century

Warrington, the seat of an Academy destined to give the town in the eighteenth century the proud title of the ‘Athens of the North’.1

The rationship between alchemy and Freemasonry is a subject that Ive written about in my recent work The Lost Rites and Rituals of Freemasonry

In the Fellowcraft Degree the symbolism of our work becomes extremely profound and interesting. He who desires to rise to the heights of his own being must first crush and crucify his own lower nature and inclinations;

Excerpt from W.L. Wilmshurst’s The Meaning Of Masonry

To each of us from our birth have been given three lesser lights, by which the lodge within ourselves may be illumined.

What actually is a cable-tow? We know that a cable-tow is a strong rope made of cords twisted together, often around a center cord. Like a rope that a tug boat may use, remember this example. What we learn first in our obligation, simply is that, as the length

This lecture on Rosslyn Chapel and Freemasonry won the 2018 lecture competition sponsored by the Provincial Grand Lodge of Worcestershire. It was written by David Wilson, Past Master of Northfield Lodge No. 5056 in Worcestershire.