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Since at least 2017, the Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon AF&AM have had a section of their online library dedicated to the relationship between Freemasonry and the LDS Church. [83] In 2019, the LDS Church published an essay entitled "Masonry" as a part of its Church History Topics series. [84]
Over the years, a variety of exposures have been published which purport to represent Masonic ritual, including Masonry Dissected by Samuel Prichard in 1730, [17] Three Distinct Knocks in 1760, [18] Jachin and Boaz in 1762, [19] [20] and Morgan's Exposure of Freemasonry in 1826. [21]
Virginia City was the first silver rush town, and the first to intensely apply large-scale industrial mining methods. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] After a year in existence, the boomtown had 42 saloons, 42 stores, 6 restaurants, 3 hotels, and 868 dwellings to house a town residency of 2,345.
Freemasonry (sometimes spelled Free-Masonry) [1] [2] [3] or simply Masonry includes various fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local guilds of stonemasons that, from the end of the 14th century, regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients. Freemasonry is the oldest ...
The Grand Orient de France, in addition to recognising women's masonry, decided in 2010 that there was no reason that its lodges should not be able to initiate women, thus adding another strand to international co-masonry. [53] The Anglo-American jurisdictions of Freemasonry follow a set of traditions referred to in ritual as the Ancient Landmarks.
The York Rite, being the older of the two, which, aside from the craft lodge, comprises four separate and distinct bodies: the Royal Arch Chapter (Capitular Masonry), the Council of Royal & Select Masters (Cryptic Masonry), the Commandery of the Knights Templar, and the York Rite College. The York Rite also includes Priories of Knights of the ...
Member of University City Lodge No. 649, Missouri. [10] George W. Atkinson (1845–1925), tenth governor of West Virginia. Raised in Kanawha Lodge No. 20, Charleston, West Virginia, 12 October 1866. Grand master of West Virginia in 1876 and Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of West Virginia from 1897 to 1901. [10]
Joab Houghton - first Chief Justice of the New Mexico provisional government (1846-1851); Justice of the New Mexico Territorial Supreme Court (Montezuma Lodge No.109, Bent Lodge No.204, Aztec Lodge No.108) Alpheus Keen - Grand Secretary of New Mexico 1884-1946, making him the longest-serving Masonic officer in history (Chapman Lodge No.2)