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  1. What is the Chamber of Reflection?

    What do its emblems mean? · Where did the practice originate?

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  2. What is the significance of the letter G?

    When did it first appear in the lodge? · Why is geometry called the first of sciences?

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  3. Give me the five cardinal virtures peculiar to freemasonry which an Ark Mariner has to practice without remission

    In which order is the Rosetta stone used? and what is its symbolism · who is abou ben adhem

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  4. What is Mother Lodge Kilwinning?

    Can a Lodge issue warrants rather than the Grand Lodge? · Then how did Mother Lodge Kilwinning issue warrants?

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  5. What did Rudyard Kipling write about Freemasonry?

    What does 'The Mother-Lodge' say about caste and creed? · How have other writers treated the Craft?

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  6. What were military and travelling lodges?

    What happened when soldiers were taken prisoner? · Do any ambulatory warrants survive?

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  7. How does Freemasonry treat death and mourning?

    Why is the sprig of acacia used? · How did the custom of Masonic memorials arise?

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  8. What is the Festive Board and where did it come from?

    Why was so much early Masonry conducted in taverns? · How did lodges move from taverns to their own halls?

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  9. What actually happened at the Goose and Gridiron in 1717?

    What did the four lodges do before that? · Why is 1717 treated as the founding date at all?

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  10. What is the significance of the second degree in Craft?

    The degree feels very short and doesnt really stress on the importance on knowledge, liberal arts & sciences or on the hidden mysteries of nature & science, other than a very cursory reference to them... · It charges the candidate on education, but the ceremony is too small that there is no major emphasis that the candidate takes away... unlike the first or third degrees

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  11. How has Masonic membership changed since the Second World War?

    What are Grand Lodges doing about it? · Has the ritual itself changed to suit the times?

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  12. Why do Masons wear aprons?

    What do the different colours and levels mean? · Why is the Chapter's regalia different again?

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  13. What is the Order of Royal Ark Mariners?

    Why is Noah central to it? · Where is the Order worked outside England?

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  14. What is the legend of the Mark degree?

    What does the phrase 'headstone of the corner' mean? · How old is the ceremony as it is worked now?

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  15. What does the Chapter mean by the Sacred and Mysterious Name?

    What is the significance of the double cube? · How does the Chapter's symbolism differ from the Craft's?

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  16. What were the Schaw Statutes?

    Who was William Schaw? · How do Scottish and English origins differ?

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  17. What is Masonic charity in practice?

    What became of those institutions? · What do the Masonic charities do now?

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  18. How did Freemasonry reach India?

    How did the Craft change after independence? · What does Freemasonry look like in India today?

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  19. What is the Chair degree and who may take it?

    Why is a Past Master's jewel the 47th Problem of Euclid? · What did Euclid's theorem mean to the operative masons?

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  20. What is a lodge of research?

    Which lodges of research are active now? · How would someone publish a paper?

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  21. Why does a lodge have a Tyler?

    Why is the sword drawn?

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  22. What is the Volume of the Sacred Law?

    What does Anderson's first Charge actually require? · How has that requirement been interpreted since?

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  23. What are the working tools of an Entered Apprentice?

    Where does the practice of moralising the tools come from? · Are the tools the same in every jurisdiction?

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  24. Is Freemasonry a secret society?

    What do critics most often get wrong? · How do Grand Lodges answer those criticisms?

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  25. What is the significance of the keystone in the Mark degree?

    What were operative masons' marks used for? · Is the keystone referred to in other degrees?

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