Georges Martin Ritual
What follows is work in progress. I have too contradicting information about this ritual. The British federation of Le Droit Humain says on their website...
Rituaal voor den Leerlingsgraad (Netherlands)
This is where it all started for me. I was initiated using the current version of this ritual. I immediately found a curiosity to the...
Rituaal voor den Leerlingsgraad E.R. (Netherlands)
Some say that the so-called “English Ritual” never changes. Worshipful Masters even swear to make to changes to the ritual. Still, the history of this...
The Verulam Workings of Craft Freemasonry
The history of the “Verulam Workings” is more elusive than that of “Lauderdale”. “Verulam” been in print since at least 1922, so if it is...
The Lauderdale Ritual of Craft Masonry
As we saw in the history of the “Dharma Workings“, it was first published in 1904/5, reprinted in 1908, revised and enlarged in 1913 (“Third...
Grande Loge Symbolique Ecossaise (de France)
The history of the short lived Grande Loge Symbolique Ecossaise (1880-1911) is well documented. A book was even published about it. The ‘Symbolic Scottish Grand...
Sydney Ritual
The archives of the Dutch federation of Le Droit Humain has two little booklets, one of the first and one of the second degree. The...
Early American rituals
Here we have two North American “symbolic” (meaning of the “craft” degrees, Entered Apprentise, Fellow Craft and Master Mason) ritual books. The book on the...
Rituals in early mixed gender Freemasonry
Would it be interesting to try to figure out what rituals were used in the first decades of mixed gender Freemasonry? Or perhaps, the first...
The Dharma Workings of Craft Masonry
Mixed gender Freemasonry only really set off when Annie Besant (1847-1933) got involved. History has it that she told Georges Martin (1844-1916) that she would...