... sprang from a meeting in London of four existing lodges to form the Grand Lodge of England in 1717. In the wake of ... the formation of the Grand Lodge, new Masonic lodges spread throughout the British Isles and the European read more...
... governed through a system of statebased independent Grand Lodges. Washington DC, not being a state nor part of any state, ... arts and sciences, and the just rule of law. Masonic lodges were practically incubators for enlightened liberty, civil read more...
... which is taught to them, and practiced, together in their lodges. However, this ritual and inner practice is, for them ... read more...
... deck, was a prominent Mason who taught the tarot in Masonic lodges in the 1920s through the 1950s. 8 Wikipedia: Ancient read more...
... REALLY understood all of the ritualism of the various lodges." VB#2 Vault, Box 2 Francis - DaVinci (no date: 1980's). JG read more...
... doing this ritual, like the Rosicrucians do ritual in their lodges. That's a process of ritualistic magic. So maybe the ritual read more...
... Great White Brotherhood. The Theosophical Society opened lodges to teach its metaphysical principles and raja yoga (the ... top of the head); and by the mid 1890s there were 60 such lodges in the U.S. and almost 300 worldwide. In its essence, read more...
... the desert to do that—the vision quest. Priscilla Sweat lodges and things like this. Bruce Vision quest. But that vision read more...
... Masonic symbols that are in the temples, in the Masonic lodges, and part of the initiations that the Masons go through. read more...
... to the sacred atmosphere the person is. Now, some Lodges try to help create the atmosphere and—and—and the ... uh, one way or another, to facilitate further that. So some Lodges you will see how, as soon as they are about to open after read more...