Continuing the brief introdution to Danish freemasonry (see the list of rulers) …
The Danish Order of Freemasons historically has utilised three distinct rituals, all of which are overtly Christian (not counting the early days, 1743-1765, when freemasonry was decentralised, and the lodges likely used ritual from English influence):
1765-1782: Strict Observance
The Strict Observance (or: Order of [...]
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Posted in Boston, Home, Visiting on April 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
… And apropos of Br. Major General Henry Knox (segueway from my last post on John Adams in which he has a cameo, hauling the cannons from Ticonderoga) I attended the table lodge of said Lodge. The Grand Masters of Maine and Massachussetts were present, as well as approx. 80 guests. There were a few [...]
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Posted in Home on April 10, 2008 | No Comments »
The Danish Wikipedia entry on freemasonry has been updated with a list of all the supreme rulers of the Danish Order of Freemasons; the title has changed several times depending on the system being used, and whether Denmark was a province of German freemasonry at the time. But from 1858 the title was Wisest Vicarius [...]
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Posted in Distractions, Home on March 18, 2008 | No Comments »
I follow a number of forums, and each have their distinctions and quirks; so I mention not The Sanctum Sanctorum because it is better than others, but because they now have a subforum for Swedish Rite, and it may be that those interested can find something of interest there as it develops – or ask [...]
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Posted in Home on January 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Following an exhange on the blogs of Middlesex Fire and Lodgical, I have now posted a couple of pictures of the regalia of Swedish rite (towards the end of the page, which collects all the links I have been able to find online concerning the rite – please let me know if you know of [...]
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Posted in Home on January 3, 2008 | No Comments »
A little bit about my motherlodge, St. John’s lodge Hafnia, of Orient Copenhagen, Denmark.
Hafnia (the Latin name for Copenhagen, meaning simply harbour) sprang from Zorobabel & Frederik til det Kronede Håb (Zerubbabel and Frederick to the Crowned Hope), Denmark’s oldest lodge (dating from 1745) in 1949. This was a period of great growth in the [...]
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Posted in Home on September 18, 2007 | No Comments »
Tomorrow my motherlodge, St John’s lodge Hafnia (the Latin name for Copenhagen) opens the Masonic year by installing its new Worshipful Master (not a very good translation of his actual title), or rather: He installs himself into the Chair. This piece of Swedish Rite ritual is once again quite different from most other systems. The [...]
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Posted in Home on August 14, 2007 | No Comments »
For all the wonderful experiences we’re having being abroad, I miss the Danish Order of Freemasons. I haven’t even been away yet, not really, because they have been dark for the summer. But perhaps it’s just because I know it will be a whole year before I get to work in the beautiful halls at [...]
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