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  1. What are the Wardens' columns and why are they raised or lowered?

    What do the pillars on them represent?

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  2. Why is a candidate prepared as he is?

    How old is the practice?

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  3. What is the cable tow and what does it signify?

    How is its length interpreted?

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  4. How does Freemasonry in India accommodate different faiths?

    What sacred books are used?

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  5. What did the Mark degree teach about labour and reward?

    What is the Mark penny or token?

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  6. What does a lodge meeting involve in India today?

    How often do lodges meet? · What is expected of a new member?

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  7. What is the Book of Constitutions and why does it matter?

    What did Anderson get wrong about Masonic history?

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  8. What is the Royal Arch banner and what do its emblems mean?

    What is the significance of the Sojourners?

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  9. Which appendant Orders are worked in India?

    Which Orders have their own governing bodies here?

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  10. What did the operative masons actually do?

    How were they trained and organised? · When did they stop building cathedrals?

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  11. What is the symbolism of the coffin and the sprig of acacia?

    Where does the acacia come from in the legend? · How have writers interpreted the raising?

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  12. What Masonic charities operate in India?

    How are they funded?

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  13. Why is the Master called Worshipful?

    What do the other lodge offices signify? · How were officers chosen in the eighteenth century?

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  14. What is the meaning of the chequered pavement?

    Why is it bordered with an indented tessel? · What is the blazing star at its centre?

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  15. How is Freemasonry organised in India today?

    What do the Regional Grand Lodges do? · How many lodges are there?

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  16. What are the Ancient Landmarks and who defined them?

    Can a landmark ever be altered?

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  17. What is the Volume of the Sacred Law and why is it open in lodge?

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  18. What are the Ancient Landmarks and who defined them?

    Why do jurisdictions disagree on how many there are? · Can a landmark ever be altered?

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  19. How did Freemasonry come to Madras?

    What were the early lodges on the Coromandel Coast? · How did the Antients and Moderns resolve their differences locally?

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  20. Who was the first Indian initiated into Freemasonry?

    Who was the first Hindu? · How did Indians come to be admitted more widely?

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  21. How did Freemasonry come to Madras?

    How did the Antients and Moderns resolve their differences locally? · What became of those lodges?

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  22. What is the history of Lodge Perfect Unanimity?

    Who were its notable members? · Where has it met over the years?

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  23. What is the history of Lodge Perfect Unanimity?

    Who were its notable members?

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  24. How did Freemasonry come to Madras?

    How did the Antients and Moderns resolve their differences locally? · What became of those lodges?

    4 turns MadrasIndiaHistoryProvincial Grand Lodge

  25. How has Masonic ritual been transmitted across three centuries?

    Why do workings differ between lodges? · How faithful is today's ritual to the eighteenth century?

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