The heart may conceive and the head devise in vain if the hand be not prompt to execute the design.

A masonic alphabet...... 1 Rev. Dr.James Anderson ...... 1 Palmer Cox’s Brownies...... 2 The golden mean ...... 2 The Inquisition...... 2 Old Charges...... 3 Lodge notes ...... 4 Our Grand Master’s itinerary...... 4 A masonic This portrait of the Rev. Dr . James An d e r son (1680-1739), compiler of the first Book of Constitutions, ap p e a r ed in Arthur Edward Wai t e ’ s Ne w Encyclopædia of in 1921. Bonus points for anyone who knows al p h a b e t what is wrong with this portrai t .

A is for Antient. This spelling, been purged from most usages, a square and compasses, and Some masonic scholars have common enough in Scotland to this day the Canadian Wor k below the urn was a Bi b l e , pr oposed the theory that the and Ireland, comes down to us Installation found in our Fo rm s sq u a r e and compasses, colour of the Grand Lodge fr om a revisor of James and Cerem o n i e s refers to the in t e r twined with laurel. of ficers clothing was adopted An d e r s o n ’ s 1723 Co n s t i t u t i o n s Antient Charge s . C is for colour. The pred o m i - fr om the ribbon of the Most of Free m a s o n s , John B is for Broken Column. nant colour of the Craft is sky- Noble Order of the Garter; and No o r thouck, who in 1784 Widely used as a symbol of blue, said to denote durability, that of the Grand Stewards ’ changed Anderson’s spelling of mo r tality since ancient times, it be n e fi cence and charity. It is regalia from the Most ancient to antient throu g h o u t is not ref e r red to in our rituals. also said to signify eternity and Honourable . the text, perhaps in imitation of The introduction and history of im m o rt a l i t y . In blazonry it The Scottish Grand Lodge the Antient Grand Lodge of what has been termed the si g n i fi es chastity, loyalty and undoubtedly copied the gree n En g l a n d ’ s constitutions, Ah i m a n Monument to the Master fide l i t y . While early free m a s o n s ribbon of the Most Ancient Re z o n . This Grand Lodge— Builder should be of interest to simply wore a white apron , and Most Noble Order of the pr operly styled the Grand all students of masonic often highly and individually Thistle, and the Grand Lodge Lodge of according to symbolism. While Jeremy L. illustrated, by 1731 the Grand of Ireland anticipated the the Old Institutions—was not Cr oss (1783-1861) is often Lodge of England had adopt fo r mation of the Most pa r ticularly consistent in their cr edited with devising this blue for its Grand Lodge Illustrious Order of St. Patrick in own spelling, with freq u e n t gr ouping of symbols incorpo- of ficers’ reg a l i a . continued on page 2 oc c u r ences of ancient rating a broken column, suggesting that the usage was weeping maiden, Father Tim e , often at the whim of either ur n and acacia, they clearly printers or individual authors. pr edated his writings. The firs t This spelling has been suggestion of a monument for inconsistently applied in our Hiram is thought to have been own jurisdiction since its pr esented in Thomas Johnson’s V o l u m e 6 7 / N u m b e r 2 founding, with Master Mason’s A Brief History of Free m a s o n r y EDITED by Trevor W. McKeown for the Grand Secretary’s Office and published by the Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of British Columbia and Yukon. The V I E W S ce rt i fi cates spelt Ancient and in 1782. It rep r esented a De s i g n AND OPINIONS e x p ressed in the Masonic Bulletin a re those of the individual authors and our Annual Proceedings title for a Monument, in Honor of a writers, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of this Grand Lodge. The editor reserves the right to edit submissions. CORRESPONDENCE: 1495 West Eighth Avenue, pages—until the early 1990s— Gr eat Arti s t , which showed an Vancouver, British Columbia V6H 1C9 Canada. WEB: http://freemasonry.bcy.ca TELEPHONE: spelt Antient. While antient has ur n on the top and above was +1-604-736-8941. FA C S I M I L E: +1-604-736-5097. E M A I L: editor@f re e m a s o n ry. b c y. c a A masonic alphabet E is for Euclid who founded a G is for the golden mean. insofar as it promotes the study fr om page one school of mathematics at Found in much post-Hellenic and knowledge of the liberal Alexandria in the time of arc h i t e c t u r e, the ratio of the ar ts and sciences. 1788 by selecting sky-blue. This Ptolemy I Soter (c. 300 BC E ). He lengths of the two sides is I is for Inquisition. This severe is, of course, supposition. compiled the thirteen books of equal to the ratio of the longer tribunal, established by Pope Al b e r t G. Mackey (1807- the El e m e n t s fr om the earlier side to the sum of the two Gre g o r y IX in 1231 exists today 1881) developed the idea that works of Hippocrates of Chios, sides. Or a/b = b/a+b = as the Sacred Congregation for blue was anciently sacred Theætetus and others. From a+b/a+2b = a+2b/2a+3b = the Doctrine of the Faith. While among the Druids as the Book I of the El e m e n t s we take 2a+3b/3a+5b et c . If a square is many freemasons met their symbol of truth; that the his 47th proposition: in right- added to the long side of a death at the hands of the Egyptians esteemed blue as a angled triangles the square on golden rectangle, a large r Catholic Inquisition, three sa c r ed colour, painting the body the side subtending the right golden rectangle is formed. This names stand out. of Amun, the principal god of angle is equal to the squares on ratio forms the foundation of Hippolyto Joseph Da Costa their theogony, light blue; and the sides containing the right the Fibonacci series of numbers is rem e m b e r ed for his persecu- that the ancient Babylonians angle. 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, tion by the Inquisition and his clothed their idols in blue. Euclid plays a key rôle in the 89, 144..., where each number subsequent rescue by English Th e r e is a widespread tendency early legend of masonic history, is formed by adding the bre t h r en “who got him under in Free m a s o n r y to extend the appearing as a central character pr evious two numbers. The the protection of the British limits of true speculative in a manuscript originally titled Fibonacci series can be found in flag.” He published a narra t i v e res e a r ch and to exaggerate Hic incipiunt constituciones arti s na t u r e, from the natural of his persecution in 1811. symbolical values. gemetriae secundum Eucyldem branching of rivers and John Coustos moved to D is for Dermott and but better known as the Re g i u s lightning, to the spiral of our Lisbon In 1743 where he was a De s a g u l i e r s . Elected the third Po e m , because it lay in the ga l a x y . founding member and Master Grand Master of England in li b r a r y of King George II for The geometric prop o rt i o n s of a lodge. He was shortl y 1719, the Rev. Dr. John many years, or the Ha l l i w e l l of the pentagram are those of th e r eafter arrested and Theophilus Desaguliers (1683- Ma n u s c r i p t , because it was the Golden Section, aurio sectio subsequently tortu r ed on nine 1744) was a zealous collector di s c o v e r ed and translated by a or golden mean, giving furth e r occasions over a two month of early masonic manuscripts. non-mason, James O. Halliwell meaning to the inclusion of the period by the Inquisition. Although attributed to Dr. in 1840. This poem, dating to pentagram in masonic reg a l i a Sentenced to work at the James Anderson (1680-1739), 1390, contains the lines: such as the collar jewel of our galleys for four years, he was the General Regulations fo u n d On thys maner, thro good Deputy Grand Master. released in October 1744 upon in the first edition of the wytte of gemetry, Some masonic writers have the demand of the British Co n s t i t u t i o n s we r e compiled Bygan furst the craft of suggested that this formu l a , mi n i s t e r , reaching England in under his supervision. The ma s o n r y: like Euclid’s 47th prop o s i t i o n , December of that year. An inventor of the planetarium, his The clerk Euclyde on thys wyse was part of the secrets of a account of his captivity was reputation as a lecturer on hyt fonde, master stone mason. published in 1756. experimental philosophy Thys craft of gemetry yn Egypte H is for Hermetic Art, na m e d Founder of Egyptian obtained for him a Fellowship londe. after Hermes Trismegistos, the Fre e m a s o n r y in 1777, the self- in the English Royal Society. The Past Master, one of Gr eek name for the Egyptian styled Allesandro, Comte de La u r ence Dermott (1720- whose chief duties it is to test god Thoth, once considered to Ca g l i o s t r o was arrested in 1791) was the second Grand the working tools, and who is be the inventor of writing. By Rome by the Catholic Se c re t a r y and later Deputy supposed to have arrived at a the early Christian period, Inquisition on 27 December, Grand Master of the Antient complete skill in Free m a s o n r y, He r mes Trismegistos was 1789, convicted of formi n g Grand Lodge of England. He wears a depiction of this proo f believed to have been a societies and conventicles of published the constitutions of as part of his distinguishing celebrated Egyptian legislator, Fre e m a s o n r y and sentenced to this Grand Lodge under the je w e l . priest and philosopher. The old death. This was commuted to title of Ahiman Rezon in 1756. F is for flaming sword. In manuscripts which contain the perpetual imprisonment—f ou r mo d e r n times the implement Legend of the Craft ascribe to years later he died in the used by the Tyler is a sword of He r mes Trismegistos the dungeons of St. Leo castle. the ordi n a r y form. In forme r invention of everything known J is for Jachin and Boaz, an times the Tyl e r ’s sword was to the human intellect. This early exposition of the ritual, wavy in shape, in allusion to belief is widely found in published in London in 1762 the flaming sword which was mediæval writings such as the and widely reprinted. While placed at the east of the Po l y c ro n y c o n , written by the many unauthorized expositions ga r den of Eden, “which turne d monk Ranulf Higden (1280- have been published since the ev e r y way to keep the way of 1364), and is not unique. revival of Free m a s o n r y in 1717, the tree of life.” It was, of Al c h e m y , reputed to have been th e r e are perhaps thirty - f o u r course, without a scabbard, invented by Herme s no t e w o r thy ones. Several of because the Tyl e r ’s sword Trismegistos, was titled the them enjoyed unoffici a l should ever be drawn and He r metic Science. In a literary popularity with free m a s o n s ready for the defense of his or poetical sense Free m a s o n r y whose jurisdictions declined to po s t . has been termed Herme t i c publish a written ritual and it

2 MASONIC BULLETIN of the GRAND LODGE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA AND YUKON OCTOBER 2003 can be seen that they were not a landmark is that it must have ninety-eight, including invalu- intended to expose the Craft to existed from “time whereof the able data as to when and ridicule but simply to assist the me m o r y of man runneth not to wh e r e these manuscripts have Online bre t h re n . the contrary,” there are few of been rep ro d u c e d . K is for Knights Tem p l a r . our customs and practices that P is for Pythagoras (c. 58 0 - and ready Many myths have grown up would satisfy the definition and 500 BC E ) whose theorem for ar ound this orde r . It is not true , some might say that it would right triangles was prob a b l y for the for example, that the Tem p l a r s be best not to attempt to developed by later followers of we r e found guilty as charged in de fi ne the indefina b l e . his philosophical school. tw e n t y - fir s t 1312; Pope Clement V ac t u a l l y M is for the Master’s Word , Pythagoras is noted for forbid- ce n t u r y de c l a r ed the charges not first ref e r red to on 13 October ding the use of beans to his pr oven, but dissolved the orde r 1637, in A Relation Of disciples—not the use of beans because it had been brou g h t Pr oceedings Concerning The as food, but the use of beans Visit our into so much disrepute that it Af fairs Of The Kirk Of Scotland for political elections. Public could not continue to operate. Fr om August 1637 To July of ficials being elected by beans Grand Lodge The Templars were not monks. 16 3 8 , by the Earl of Rothes. cast by voters into a helmet, website and see The Templars were not parti c u - He n r y Adamson, in Th e Pythagoras was advising his larly secretive—no more so Muses Thren o d i e , rec o rd e d : disciples not to seek office . the future of than other religious orders of For we be bret h r en of the Rosie Q is for Quatuor Coron a t i F r e e m a s o n r y ! their period. They were not Cr oss; Lodge No 2076. The annually pa r ticularly wealthy. By the early We have the Mason Wor d and published proceedings of fo u r teenth century they were second sight, the premier res e a r ch lodge genuinely short of money Things for to come we can in the world, Ars Quatuor f r e e m a s o n r y . b c y . c a / because of losses in the Holy fo r etell aright. Co ro n a t o ru m , (AQ C ) constitute m a s o n i c_b u ll e t i n Land and a fall in pious N is for Noachidæ, th e one of the largest collections of donations to all religious orde r s descendants of Noah. A term masonic res e a r ch available. The in western Europe. Although applied to freemasons by Dr. lo d g e ’ s first Master was Sir Now the Templars did have ships Anderson in 1738, derived Charles War ren (1840-1927) to carry personnel, pilgrims fr om one early legend of the who is rem e m b e r ed for leading you can and supplies across the Craft which placed Noah as the an expedition for the Palestine Me d i t e r ranean it appears that founder of Free m a s o n r y. Exploration Fund in 1867 and download the they did not have more than Supplanted by the Hiramic for being Commissioner of the four galleys (warships) and few Legend, the various myths and London Metropolitan Police Masonic Bulletin other ships, and if they needed legends involving Noah were during the Jack the Ripper mo r e they hired them. They incorporated into several side or mu r ders. This has led to much from our ce r tainly could not spare ships additional degree s . idle speculation on the part of to indulge in world exploration. O is for Old Charge s , th o s e anti-masons, and not a few we b s i t e ! L is for Landmarks. Fi r s t documents that have come mo v i e s . mentioned—but not define d — down to us from the R is for the Rule of Three . An Username: user in Anderson’s Co n s t i t u t i o n s of fo u r teenth century and anonymous Elizabethan saying, 1723, the landmarks of af t e rw a r ds in which are c. 1570, tells us: Password: Ezra Fre e m a s o n r y are those aspects incorporated the traditional Multiplication is vexation, of our fraternity without which hi s t o r y, the legends and the Division is bad, the order would not be rules and regulations of The Rule of Three doth puzzle recognized as Free m a s o n r y . Fre e m a s o n r y. They are called me , Al b e r t G. Mackey, author of variously “Ancient And practice drives me mad both an encyclopædia and Manuscripts,” “Ancient The Rule of Three, in this seven volume history of Constitutions,” “Legend of the sense, is a ref e r ence to Fre e m a s o n r y, listed twenty-five Craft,” “Gothic Manuscripts,” ge o m e t r y, while practice ref e r s landmarks in an arti c l e “Old Records,” et c . They range to rôte learning. Plato saw in published in the Am e r i c a n in estimated date from 1390 the number three the character Turn over Qu a r terly Review in October of until the first quarter of the of the Supreme Being. The 1858. Some jurisdictions have eighteenth century, and a few Py t h a g o r eans called it perfe c t fo r mally adopted a shorter list of them are specimens of ha rm o n y . In Free m a s o n r y the a new leaf while another list of fift y - f o u r beautiful Gothic script. The list of threes: degrees, principal Books, tapes and videos; has been widely reprinted la r gest number of them are in of ficers, lights, ruf fians and the Masonic education at its best. Open for your convenience since its writing in 1889. This the keeping of the British like, is extensive. second and fourth Friday jurisdiction, although raising Museum; the Masonic library of S is for square. A metal evenings; 5:00 ‘til 10:00 pm. the question in recent years, West Yor k s h i r e, England, has in sq u a r e was unearthed in Irel a n d has yet to formally adopt a custody the second large s t in 1830, during excavation for The Library de fi nition of the landmarks. nu m b e r . Ars Quatuor the foundations of Baal’s Bridge at Given that the first requisite of Co ro n a t o ru m , vol. xxxi lists which leads to Limerick City, Grand Lodge

OCTOBER 2003 MASONIC BULLETIN of the GRAND LODGE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ANDYUKON 3 inscribed with: “I will strive to Relationships of the Craft. In live with love and care; Upon the early 1700s the book that the level by the square 1507.” rested on a pedestal in front of The import of this discovery is a the lodge Master was a copy of topic of some heated debate. An d e r s o n ’ s Co n s t i t u t i o n s . It was T is for Transition Theory, not until 1760 that the Grand which says that working lodges Lodge of England forma l l y of stone masons lost member- endorsed the use of a Vol u m e Grand Master’s Itinerary ship and political clout with the of Sacred Law, declaring the O C T O B E R, 2003 decline in cathedral building Bi b l e to be a Great Light. Fr i 3 District No. 12 Tsimpsean No. 58 Prince Rupert. and that they began to accept W is for Wor k i n g s . Fo u r Sa t 4 District No. 4N Tweedsmuir No. 152 Burns Lake members who were not rituals are worked in this Sa t 1 Board of General Purposes Williams Lake operative stone masons. As jurisdiction: British Columbian Sa t 11 District No. 4S Centre No. 113 Williams Lake th e r e are absolutely no rec o rd s Canadian Work, as derived Wed 15 - 1 7 Western Canada Conference Canmore, Alberta of this in England, this theory fr om that compiled by Sa t 18 District No. 8 Columbia No. 38 In v e r m e r e has been widely discredited. In Pr ovincial Grand Master, RW Fr i 24 Scottish Rite Co n s i s t o r y Van c o u v e r Scotland, where evidence exists Br o. Simon McGillivray in 1823 Th u 30 District No. 25 Ancient Light No. 88 La d n e r for this theory, it has enjoyed and worked in the Grand gr eater acceptance. Lodge of Canada in the stood for one of the Latin special large wall plaque giving Th e r e have been ten Pr ovince of Ontario; British phrases meaning “in the Yea r recognition to the “Dale theories about our origins Columbian ”Ancient” Work, as of Masonry” probably An n o Dickson Masonic Family” which expounded in the pages of derived from that the La t o m o ru m . Where did the will be permanently displayed in AQ C over the years. They range “Ancient” or “Athol” Lodges, dating system come from? In the Dale Dickson Room at the fr om Eric Ward ’ s Original Birth by way of the Americans, 1642, Dr. John Lightfoot wrot e lodge. RW Br o. Dale Dickson, a th e o r y which sees ‘Accepted Thomas Webb and Ralph P. that man was created at 9:00 member of Kamloops Lodge Ma s o n r y’, evidenced by the Lester (sometimes called the am, and in 1644, he wrote that No. 10, Kamloops, was active inner circle of the London New York or American Wor k ) ; the world was created on th r oughout the masonic family Company of Masons, as a new Australian Work, as adopted in Su n d a y , September 12, 3928. and is fondly rem e m b e r ed by movement which emerged in 1906 from the ritual created in In 1650, the Irish Arch b i s h o p , the bret h r en of District 3. seventeenth century England 1888 by the Grand Lodge of James Ussher (1581-1656), Sp o n s o r ed and organized by fr ee from and independent of New South Wales from the published his computations that Rainbow Lodge No. 180, Port the trade, to Frederick W. Seal- rituals of England, Scotland the world was created on Ha rd y , this year’s Filomi Days Co o n ’ s suggestion that and Ireland; and Emulation Su n d a y , October 23, 4004, Kids’ Fishing Derby saw fift y - seventeenth century lodges Work, as derived from that beginning at sunset of the five children participating. The we r e a cover for conspiratorial worked by Emulation Lodge of 22nd. Both these dates are members of the lodge and meetings of Royalists who were Im p r ovement at Free m a s o n ’ s widely misquoted with Ussher members of Eastern Star Polaris id e n t i fi ed by secret signs using Hall, London. Lodges charte re d often credited with determi n i n g Chapter No. 98 ably assisted a masonic theme as the natural be f o r e 1954 and using the cr eation at 9:00 am. while many local businesses pr oduct of a burge o n i n g Canadian Work will have their Z is for Zend Ave s t a , th e donated prizes and helped in t e r est in archæology and own unique quality. sa c r ed book of Zoroa s t r i a n i s m pr omote this popular arc h i t e c t u r e. Theories involving X is for Xerop h a g i s t s . Wh e n said to have been destroy e d community event. This year’s Ro s i c r ucians, monasteries and Pope Clement XII issued his bull when Alexander conquered parade included W Bro. the Royal Society have also on 24 April, 1738 forbidding Persia but reassembled under No r man Cole’s boat and ”Vic e been proposed; none prov e n . the practice of Free m a s o n r y the Sasanian kings in the third Admiral” Hardy , AK A Bro . U is for Uniformi t y . At the by Roman Catholics, many to seventh centuries CE . Albert St e w a r t Shipley, who has been constitution of the United Italian freemasons continued to Pike (1809-1891) wrote In d o - appointed by the District of Grand Lodge of England on meet under the name of Ar yan Faith and Doctrine as Po r t Hardy as the offici a l 27 December, 1813, there Xe r ophagists. A compound of Contained in the Zend-Ave s t a , reception officer for visiting was founded a Lodge of two Greek words signifying a work completed in 1874, but dignitaries and tourists. Reconciliation to establish a eaters of dry food, the implica- un f o r tunately not transcribed On 4 October, 2003 un i f o r mity of working between tion was that they abstained and published until 1924 when the lodges. Although the lodge fr om drinking wine, which much of his res e a r ch had been Tweedsmuir Lodge No. 152, was dissolved in 1816, there would make them perhaps the su p e r s e d e d . Ⅵ Bu rn ’ s Lake, in conjunction with has never been a full uniformi t y first rec o r ded temperance the Grand Master’s Official visit of work in England although so c i e t y . to District 4N, will be that of the Emulation Lodge of Y is for Year of Light or An n o Lo d g e celebrating their fift i e t h In s t r uction is most generally Lu c i s , the traditional dating an n i v e r s a r y. Members wishing fa v o u r ed. system for Free m a s o n r y no t e s to attend the banquet are V is for Volume of Sacred wh e r eby 4000 is added to the The First Dale Dickson asked to contact either W Bro. La w for which this jurisdiction common date. While today we Memorial Golf Event was held David Hall at [email protected] or has no definition beyond that use AL as an abbreviation for on Sunday,14 September, 2003 W Bro. Brian Marsh at found in Aims and Anno Lucis, when first used it when there was unvailing of a cb m a r s h 1 @te l u s . n e t . Ⅵ

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