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  1. What did the Hermetic tradition contribute to Masonic symbolism?

    What did Elias Ashmole bring to the Craft? · How much of this is documented rather than supposed?

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  2. What is the Royal Ark Mariner degree?

    What does the ark signify? · Where is the degree worked today?

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  3. What does the Royal Arch add to the Master Mason degree?

    Who were Zerubbabel, Haggai and Joshua? · Why is the Royal Arch called the completion of pure ancient Masonry?

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  4. Who was Hiram Abiff?

    When did the legend enter Masonic ritual? · How have scholars explained its origins?

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  5. Why is the lodge oriented east to west?

    Why do the Wardens sit where they do? · How did the arrangement of the lodge room develop?

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  6. What does the point within a circle teach?

    Why are the two parallel lines added? · How do different writers disagree about it?

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  7. What is the Mark degree?

    How did it come to be worked separately in England? · Where is it worked today?

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  8. What is the Holy Royal Arch?

    Why do England and America treat it differently? · What are the four veils?

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  9. What is Prince Hall Freemasonry?

    Why was recognition withheld for so long? · Where does recognition stand now?

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  10. How does someone join a lodge?

    What actually happens at a lodge meeting? · What does it cost to be a Freemason?

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  11. Can women become Freemasons?

    How did co-masonry begin? · Which women's orders exist today?

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  12. What is the Holy Royal Arch?

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  13. What does Freemasonry teach about charity?

    How was Masonic relief organised historically? · What do Grand Lodges support today?

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  14. Why is King Solomon's Temple central to Masonic symbolism?

    What do the two pillars represent? · How do different Orders read the Temple differently?

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  15. What are the Old Charges and why do they matter?

    Which is the oldest surviving manuscript? · What do they say about the duties of a mason?

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  16. What role did Quatuor Coronati Lodge play in Masonic scholarship?

    Is it still active and relevant? · Do they still publish new volumes of the research material presented there?

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  17. Why does Freemasonry use ritual at all?

    How much has the ritual changed since the eighteenth century? · Where can I read about the history of the ritual?

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  18. What makes a lodge regular?

    How did the doctrine of exclusive territorial jurisdiction arise? · Why do some Grand Lodges refuse to recognise others?

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  19. Why has Freemasonry attracted suspicion and hostility?

    How did the Catholic Church come to condemn Freemasonry? · Where does that stand today?

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  20. What do the three Great Lights signify?

    How does the Volume of the Sacred Law differ between jurisdictions? · What did Wilmshurst make of these symbols?

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  21. What did the Museum of Freemasonry in London put on show most recently?

    Where can a researcher consult original Masonic manuscripts in Britain today?

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  22. How many Freemasons are there worldwide today?

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  23. What is the Grand Lodge of India and how did it come about?

    What happened to the English, Irish and Scottish lodges in India after 1961? · Which is the oldest lodge still working in Chennai?

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  24. What did the Antients and the Moderns actually disagree about?

    What was the motive or trigger to reach an amity? · did the Lodge of Perfect Unanimity in Madras play a key role in this?

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  25. How did operative masonry become speculative?

    What part did the Scottish lodges play in that transition? · When did the last working stonemasons leave the lodges?

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