Grand Master Mason attended as guest of Honour at the Melbourne Tartan Festival Gala Dinner

The Grand Master Mason, Brother Dr Joseph J Morrow, was the Guest of Honour at the Melbourne Tartan Festival Gala Dinner on Saturday, July 20th in Melbourne Town Hall.
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HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II PASSES ON

The Grand Lodge of Antient Free and Accepted Masons of Scotland would like to express our great sorrow at the passing of Her Majesty the Queen and send our deepest condolences to the Royal Family.Most of us were born and have grown up during…

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OUR NATIONAL BARD, BROTHER ROBERT BURNS, BORN THIS DAY 25TH JANUARY 1759

Saturday 25th January 2025   Many influences played on Robert Burns as he developed into the historic character who is so widely revered throughout the world, his life and works being celebrated far and wide as many participate in Burns…
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Scholar appointed to examine Robert Burns and Freemasonry in landmark research project

The University of Glasgow's Centre for Robert Burns Studies (CRBS) has appointed a PhD scholar for a groundbreaking research project examining Robert Burns’s connections with Freemasonry. The celebrated Scottish poet was not only a prolific…
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WHEN IS A GAVEL NOT A GAVEL? WHEN IT IS A MAUL!

Another distinct Scottish Masonic tradition. We have previously discussed Lodges in Scotland prior to the existence of any Grand Lodge. We showed the earliest Lodge record which belonged to Lodge Aitcheson's Haven and which was dated 9 January…
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LODGE AILSA No. 1172

As someone pointed out yesterday, thereby somewhat, pre-empting this post, the entry for Gunner J. E. D. Graham, Lodge Ailsa, No.1172, is incorrectly annotated 'E.C.' (English Constitution) whereas it is a Scottish Lodge. That Lodge was…
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ON MASONIC KNOWLEDGE

Before we became Freemasons, we had, each and every one of us, entertained a favourable opinion, preconceived, of the Order, and we had a sincere wish for knowledge ; but what was that favourable opinion based upon, and in what sense did…
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THE RIVER VALLEY PRISONER OF WAR MASONIC CLUB

Before, During and after In the Museum at Freemasons' Hall, Edinburgh. there is a remarkable document, being a Roll of Founder Members of the River Valley P.O.W. Masonic Club [I]. The Roll is remarkable for several reasons but in order to…
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Robert Burns