Masonic Temple Day. By Uncle Monty.

Masonic Temple Day.

By Uncle Monty.

Photos By Alex Albion.
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Freemansons, from far and wide, descended on the

United Grand Lodge of England (UGLE) to mark their

national Masonic Temple Day as autumnal leaves lay

rudely on the crowded pavements as masons of every

size and shape and age and colour arrived so poshly

dressed at London’s Great Queen Street.

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Trying to look more like lords than masonic louts, the

mob of motley masons arrived with their classic black

jackets, grey pin-striped trousers, and along with them

carrying their ubiquitous black “Regalia cases,” which

they transport by hand with their fancy masonic aprons

inside and other trinkets of rank and status within their

secret and weird craft of freemasonry. Many masons

spend a small fortune just to get all dressed up and to

parade themselves like modern buffoons at UGLE.
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Mob of Masons at London's United

Grand Lodge of England (UGLE).

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They had arrived for their Masonic Temple Day to
blindly do their big day of masonic rituals behind closed

doors with an estimated 2,500 masons then all gathered

to do their freemansonry and to do their oddball hand-

shakes and to regale themselves in their ceremonial

pantomime and to affirm their peculiar set of rules and

jargons among their fellow Brothers. The worldwide

Masonic Order is the world’s oldest secret society or

fraternal order with membership of over 300,000

freemasons in Britain thesedays. It is also a multi-

million dollar business is today's freemasonry and

despite its numerical decline and standing of recent

years in much of modern and multicultural England

and the vast United States of America.
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As I watched their Masonic Temple Day unfold,

I caught glimpses of freemasons dressed in their

masonic outfits standing at the huge entrance to the

lodge. They were perturbed and confounded by my

camera presence and they took offensive steps to avoid

my attempts to photograph them, but to no avail. At one

point they even sent their security guard over to me to

ask me what I was doing on the street photographing the

mob of freemans at UGLE or lodge door! I told him I was

more than happily recording the public spectacle of the

comings and goings of those members appearing at the

national lodge for my insignificant blog. He left me none

too pleased. I really wanted to tell him to "bugger off,"

since I was not on UGLE private property but on

the public street freely photographing the annual

British masonic event.

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But when one of the regalia men blew a kiss at me, as

seen in the above caption picture, I quickly caught his

bizzare antic right at the masonic lodge door on my camera

faster than he could say "cheese." By now, all the masons

had gathered inside and the UGLE big double doors were

promply closed shut from my probing eyes and cameras.

But I got what I had come for to record the lodge scenes

for this story of mine – Masonic Temple Day, 2oo9.
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The World's Rarest Collection Of Freemasonry
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http://www.secretsofmasons.com/

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An 18th Century Masonic Grand Master.

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Abit of ancient history tells us such “masons were probably

skilled English (stone) masons emancipated from their apprent-

iceships and allowed to move from place to place in and after the

14th century. And the accepted may have been honourary mem-

bers of the free masons’ societies.¹” since before the period

of late mediaeval England.

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Long since then, ghastly freemansonry has spread to every corner

of the English-speaking world. In America, for example, it is said that

every elected United States president since George Washington,

an Anglican, to its modern ones, can claim titled membership in

freemasonry of one sort or another. Thus, Barack Obama could

easily belong to the growing ranks of black and ethnic freemasons

of today. Although, I have heard no word that Obama is actually a

freemason. However, I recently met one British mason who said

it was not true at all that every US president – some 44 of them

over the past 230+ years – was a mason!! It is also said that no

man can be elected U.S president without him first being a

mason, too. He rubbished that on the spot did the Limey!

...

Last time I was in Washington, D.C., I think I saw an historic

lithograph of George Washington and/or Thomas Jefferson dressed

in freemasonry degree attire. It seemed so strange and weird to

me to see such persons so attired. But I was even more aghasted

when I happened upon some black and white photographs of British

Kings Edward VII and George VI in their freemasonry regalia.²

I have taken one such masonic photo of George, who is the late

father of our present Queen Elizabeth II, and made it into a

colourful graphic, as shown below, instead of the drab b+w

official photo I saw of him in some magazine or other ...

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The Queen's Own Father - George

VI - As Grand Master and Mason.

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I don’t know what it is that makes me feel so uncomfortable

when I see pictures of royals like Edward and George as free-

masons. There is something so unreal to me when I see such.

I think I am instinctively leery of secret orders because they

are secretive and hidden from open view in what they do. If

one thinks of such secret and ghastly orders like the Klu Klux

Klan or KKK, it is hard to swallow any secret orders or soci-

eties or clans even if they are not murderous-minded like the
American Klan itself. What then is the bigger issue behind the
rituals and practises of the Free & Accepted Masons -in Eng-

land and elsewhere? What then is ghastly freemasonry upto?

I wonder as I wander!!

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At London’s Great Queen Street, so stands the Freemasons’ Hall at
where the present Duke of Kent is its Grand Master. Freemasonry

leaves me cold, I must admit, despite having met a number of charm-

ing masons. They are gentlemen who no doubt are quite sincere in

believing freemasonry is harmless and not remotely satanic in any

shape or form. But in the past, some clergy from the Mother Church

of England, and her wider Worldwide Anglican Communion, have

cautioned their flock against joining in the secret rituals and practices

of the Free & Accepted Masons. While the Holy Catholic Church

forbids outright its clergy and laity from getting entangled with

the underbelly of warped freemasonry.

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My impression of the English, American and Australian masons

I have met is that most of them come from lower-middle business

and/or lower white collar and blue collar classes and tend to be

middle-aged and overwhelmingly non-religious! While many

smaller Masonic Lodges are struggling to survive according to

ever falling membership at where younger folks seem unattracted

for the most part to freemasonry itself. Such is a remote concept

to many of them, although in the USA and UK the masonic order

has been trying to recruit college kids on campus to join them

with some success they say. The masons need new and younger

blood to stay alive with the graying ranks of masons now turning

from gray to white mops of pensionable hair and white eyebrows.

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I have come to suspect, too, that for many a mason the fake

substitute for concrete civil awards or royal honours that has

eluded most of them is made up by joining the masons and

its masonic emblems and medals. Only a very few masons

have received outstanding honours either in the military or

academia or by association in national and international bodies.
They are men then of little achievement and recognition in their

field or profession outside the oddity of freemasonry. The masonic

apron is nothing more than a substitute for awards they have

otherwise not received or are hopelessly unachieveable for

most of them. Masons are like mice of men. They nibble away

on bits of cheese and then scurry away to hide themselves

from the rest of us.

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For the non-masonic outsider like me, Masonic Temple Day

allowed me just a little public glimpse of the mindless masons

has they arrived like a herd of sheep into their secret abyss

of dreadful freemasonry that would be best if we were

freed from everything that freemasonry so negatively

represents from what I can hear and see.

http://www.freemasonrywatch.org/

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Your's, Uncle Monty.
+Mission Sunday, 2oo9.
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St. Thérèse of Lisieux, 1877.

More than 285,000 people visited the Reliquary
of Holy Relics of St. Thérèse during its first faith
tour of the UK. It was the religious event of the de-
cade, I do believe. I was among those who also took
steps to visit the reliquary on its last day in London,
before its return to France. Not only did I view such,
but I also had a wonderful encounter with The Most
Rev'd Vincent Nichols, the new Catholic Archbishop
of Westminster, who is shown chatting with me in the
above blog header at England's Westminster Cathedral.
My story - "Holy, Holy Relics". - will be presented quite
soon with several photographs of the scenes and of the
thousands of people of many faiths that converged to bid
their final farewell to the Holy Relics of St. Thérèse.
Best, Uncle Monty.
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