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Franc-maçonnerie au Québec
Freemasonry in Quebec PR Committee Report
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That Society can only remain effective in
and by Brotherhood is evident. We cannot live a national life as
particles; we must all live all life – in each other as well as in
ourselves. A division into separated classes has always spelt decay,
disintegration, and the accentuation of idiosyncrasies has ever laid
the mine of future disaster and death. Whether the form of
Government has been monarchic, or democratic, has not mattered so
much as whether the vitality of a people is companionship,
fraternity, and loyalty to each and all the principles of State-life
and of State-craft. READ THE REST / LISEZ LE RESTANT 
 How Ancient is the Golden Fleece
When the Senior Warden puts the apron on the
newly initiated brother, he tells him that the badge with which he
is being invested is "more ancient than the Golden Fleece or Roman
Eagle; more honorable than the Star or Garter, or any other order in
existence". So, how old is that badge?
READ THE REST / LISEZ LE RESTANT Our Masonic Ancestors
At first I thought the Masonic Order was a
development of the Trade Guild of stone masons in England, but on
further study I found no connection between the two. On the
contrary, I found that the Free Masons looked upon other Masons as
rude and ignorant. They called them "rough Masons," "layers" and
other names distinctly unflattering. Even the Masons Company in
London was not among the twelve great companies, but was a minor
company. The Stone Masons Trade Guild was a local guild of men who
lived at home and therefore did not need a lodge,-a guild which was
subject to local regulations and had that skill only which was
required to build the ordinary habitations of the people. It. Had no
higher standing than, that of any of the other local guilds, into
which all trade industries were divided during the Middle
Ages.
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