THE HOLY SAINTS’ JOHN & FREEMASONRY
Jun 11, 2022 ·
20m 22s
In many old histories of the Craft is a quaint legend that St. John the Evangelist became a "Grand Master" at the age of ninety. THE HOLY SAINTS’ JOHN &...
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In many old histories of the Craft is a quaint legend that St. John the Evangelist became a "Grand Master" at the age of ninety. THE HOLY SAINTS’ JOHN
& FREEMASONRY It seems to have its origin in a book printed in 1789, in which Richard Linnecar of Wakefield wrote certain "Strictures on Freemasonry," although his paper is really an eulogy. Whether this writer really continued a tradition, or invented the tale which was seized upon by Oliver and kept alive as a legend, impossible though it is, no man may say.
One Grand Lodge has ruled that Sts. John's Days are Landmarks! Of course, any Grand Lodge may make its own laws, but it is beyond the power of any Grand Lodge either to make a Landmark by pronouncement or to unmake a Landmark by denying it. Inasmuch as Landmarks are universally admitted to be handed down to us from "time immemorial", and Sts. Johns' Days as Masonic festivals are neither extremely old nor universal among the Craft (England using Wednesday after St. George's day; Scotland St. Andrew's Day; and Ireland St. Patrick's), we must consider only that Grand Lodge's intent to honor our patron saints and not the validity of her results.
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& FREEMASONRY It seems to have its origin in a book printed in 1789, in which Richard Linnecar of Wakefield wrote certain "Strictures on Freemasonry," although his paper is really an eulogy. Whether this writer really continued a tradition, or invented the tale which was seized upon by Oliver and kept alive as a legend, impossible though it is, no man may say.
One Grand Lodge has ruled that Sts. John's Days are Landmarks! Of course, any Grand Lodge may make its own laws, but it is beyond the power of any Grand Lodge either to make a Landmark by pronouncement or to unmake a Landmark by denying it. Inasmuch as Landmarks are universally admitted to be handed down to us from "time immemorial", and Sts. Johns' Days as Masonic festivals are neither extremely old nor universal among the Craft (England using Wednesday after St. George's day; Scotland St. Andrew's Day; and Ireland St. Patrick's), we must consider only that Grand Lodge's intent to honor our patron saints and not the validity of her results.
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