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Where We’ve Been

Black EyesGeneral

Knowledge Rite’s That Are Wrong

Why? Why? Why?

The lodge which granted permission

for Friendship Lodge to form

Mt. Moriah Lodge, No. 33 in 1827

1st Worshipful Master of Friendship Lodge

Bro. Meredith Helms1827-1828 1831-

1832

Gave a speech in 1831, in Hagerstown, which eventually led to the

closure of Mt. Moriah and Ureka Lodge

Thaddeus Stevens

March 12, 1888

Date Lodge Charter was arrested

Year which Friendship Lodge granted permission

for Hagerstown 217 to work under dispensation

1924

Pope who issued Bull on April 4, 1738 allowing of

excommunication of Catholics who were

Masons

Pope Clement XII

Name of the person in NY who was believed to have been killed by Freemasons

for writing an exposé

William Morgan

The first “Lady Freemason”

Mrs. Aldsworth - received her first 2 degrees around

1735 in Dublin

Lodge in Italy which Roberto Calvi belonged to. He is believed to have been

murdered in accordance with Masonic customs

P2 or Propoganda Due

Name of the former WM of a Maryland Lodge now responsible

for Ephesians 5:11, an anti-masonic website “and have no fellowship

with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them”

Jack Harris

June 24, 1717

Establishment of the Grand Lodge of England

1st American Grand Lodge (PA) was established in

this year

1731

1787

Establishment of Grand Lodge of

Maryland

1st Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of England

Bro. Anthony Sayer

President Truman and him were the only 2 Presidents

who were also Grand Masters

Pres. Andrew Jackson

Rite practiced in 80% of this country. Allows

Atheists. Has 7 Degrees

French Rite

Has 90 degrees. Filled with alchemical, occult, and egyptian references.

Allows women

Rite of Memphis-Misraïm

Started in the 18th Century. Allows Women. 3 degrees

based off of:1st-Tower of Babel2nd-Garden of Eden

3rd-Flood

Rite of Adoption

Established by the Roman Catholics in Germany using a pug-dog as one of the features. Allowed Women.

Signifies a young mastiff to indicate mutual fidelity and attachment of the

brethren.

Rite of Mopses

Rite with 3 Major Divisions (St. John’s, St. Andrew’s, and Chapter

Degrees) of it’s 10 major degrees. Must be a

Christian

Swedish Rite

The rite of taking off your shoe which symbolizes

humility and that we are on holy ground

The rite of Discalceation

The rite of walking in the same path as the sun as a

symbol of a quest for light and knowledge

The rite of Circumambulation

The rite in which you are stripped of all metals as a symbol of not bringing in anything to lodge that will

cause discord including your passions and

prejudices.

The rite of destitution

Term used to describe words that can have two interpretations used to

avoid committing oneself to what one says

Equivocation

These are used a symbol of authority taken from Exodus 4: 16-17 when

God is speaking to Moses.

The rods carried by the SD, JD, SS, and JS