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Coloured-pencil drawing of a Masonic lodge entrance with a stone façade, wooden double doors, classical columns and neighbouring doors on an old street.

What a Masonic Temple Asks of the Eye

This article should be read as an interpretative essay on Masonic architecture and symbolism, not as a guide to secret rituals or hidden codes. Its central argument is that the Masonic temple does not merely conceal or display meaning; it asks for attention, return and inward work.

Nineteenth-century painting of a Masonic Grand Lodge gathering, evoking the centuries-old fraternal tradition that Brother Harry Waddingham served until the age of 109.

Two ships sunk, 109 years lived, seventy years in the Craft

Brother Harry Waddingham of Sussex, widely regarded as the oldest Freemason in England and Wales, passed to the Grand Lodge Above at the age of 109. A Royal Navy veteran of Dunkirk and Crete, he served the Craft for over seventy decades and was installed as Worshipful Master at one hundred.

Freemasonry and Italy’s Judicial Shadow

Italy’s failed judicial reform did more than expose a constitutional divide. It revived an older Italian reflex: the use of Freemasonry as a symbol of hidden power whenever the state, the courts and public distrust collide.

Italy: The Reform Nobody Understands — and the Freemasons

A constitutional referendum on judicial reform has divided Italy — but it is a single phrase, dropped by a prosecutor in the heat of a campaign, that has drawn Freemasonry into a controversy not of its making.

Grand Officer regalia of the United Grand Lodge of England displayed at Freemasons’ Hall during the Buckinghamshire Provincial Meeting.

Buckinghamshire Freemasons Gather for Their Annual Provincial Meeting at Freemasons’ Hall, London

Over 500 Freemasons and guests gathered at Freemasons’ Hall for the Buckinghamshire Provincial Meeting — a day that also marked the first official assembly led by the new Provincial Grand Master.