Historical sources on the history of Joint Freemasonry
In the Masonic magazine The Builder of April 1917 Arthur Edward Waite wrote a short text on what he called “Joint Freemasonry”. The magazine can...
Mixed Masonic communities
There are quite a few Masonic fora on the world wide web, but on many of them irregular Freemasons are frowned upon. So what about...
100 Years mixed Freemasonry in the Netherlands
Combined with the spring equinox (or St. John’s) the Dutch lodge Pythoras celebrated its hundreth birtday. Pythagoras was founded on 21 June 1915 as a...
What of them men?
In the Netherlands there is a Masonic publication called Thoth. It is published by an organisation that does not formally belong to the Dutch Grand...
Some numbers
Members of male-only Freemasonry love to point to the fact that they are the first and the biggest. It is not always so easy, at...
So how is that, a mixed lodge?
Male Masons often say that they enjoy coming together without their wives. Some take a step further and say that the presence of women will...
History
Much information can already be found on the internet. No need to reproduce all that. Especially Wikipedia has some fairly good information, so you can...
Grand Lodge, Grand Orient
A group of Freemasons forms a “lodge”. When three of such lodges decided to cooperate in 1717 London, they called this new organisation “Grand Lodge”....
Regular, irregular, what is that?
In 1717 the world’s first Grand Lodge was founded in London when three lodges decided to work together. Later the “Constitutions” of Andersson where written...
Why co?
When you are a man and interested in Freemasonry you can set out and try to find some information if it could be something for...