A PARTIR PEDRA

No âmbito das publicações de autores convidados, aqui fica um texto sobre a Maçonaria na Ilha da Madeira. A   Maçonaria   na   Madeira Em 1727, foi constituida a primeira Loja Maçónica em Lisboa composta por comerciantes ingleses e que seria apelidada pelo Santo Ofício de “Hereges Mercadores”, em 1733 uma segunda Loja denominada “Casa Real dos Pedreiros Livres da Lusitânia” com uma  predominância de obreiros católicos portugueses e irlandeses e uma terceira fundada pelo suíço John Coustos em 1741. Todas elas sofrerão uma grande perseguição por parte da Inquisição no ano de 1743, onde alguns destes Irmãos foram torturados e sentenciados a duras penas. Uma segunda fase acontece a partir dos anos sessenta desse mesmo século, como consequência de uma tolerância ideológica por parte do Marquês de Pombal, que fora um homem iniciado no estrangeiro (Inglaterra ou Áustria), onde residiu algum tempo como diplomata da coroa Portuguesa. ...

I want to thank my brothers of the Grande Loja Legal de Portugal who write the blog “A Partir Pedra” for allowing me this opportunity to write an article for their magnificent site. My name is Nick Johnson and I am a brother from the Grand Lodge of Minnesota, AF & AM. I am the Senior Warden of my Lodge, Corinthian Lodge #67, yet I am still very much a neophyte in my Masonic journey as I am 26 years and have been a Freemason for a little over three years. The topic on which I will focus is visitation and how important it is in a Mason’s life and how often it is ignored. In Minnesota, we follow the Ancient Landmarks of Freemasonry which have been codified in our Grand Lodge regulations of which one of them is the right to travel. (“That to visit Masonicly is an inherent right of Masons, but no visitor shall be received into a Lodge if any member present objects.” §C2.03(8)) I have always been of the opinion that our Craft arose from the cathedral builders of Europe and the secret tra...

Dando continuidade aos textos escritos por autores convidados , trazemos hoje aqui a biografia do Irmão Michael A. Halleran. Michael A. Halleran 32°, is a freelance writer and a practicing attorney in the Midwestern United States. Bro. Halleran received the Scottish Rite’s (Southern Jurisdiction) Mackey Award for Excellence in Masonic Scholarship for his article in Heredom, vol. 14 (2006), and he is the author of the “Brother Brother” column appearing regularly in the Scottish Rite Journal. A member of the Board of Directors of the Scottish Rite Research Society, he also maintains membership in the Quatuor Coronati Correspondence Circle through which he studies and speaks on military Masonry in both the US and the UK. His first book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Freemasonry in the American Civil War, will be published in 2010 by the University of Alabama Press. Os artigos deste nosso convidado podem ser encontrados em Audi Vide Tace e em freemasoninformation/aude vide tace Os Edit...

This article could have been titled “The Castration of Freemasonry, Part 2” but I have chosen a new title so that both articles can stand on their own separately, not that there won’t be a fair amount of repetition between the two. Somehow I just keep seeing more and more material related to this subject, almost if an angelic messenger was shoving new considerations under my nose. The original article, Part 1, has been published by A Partir Pedra and can also be read here, http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/thecastrationoffreemasonry.htm . It will perhaps provide some needed background to a continuation of the same theme. The title of this article has no bearing in reality; rather it is what is perceived by the general public not actually authored by the fraternity. In essence it is an exaggeration that does point to different schools of Masonic practice. A number of Masonic writers and thinkers have mentioned that Freemasonry around the world has different priorities and focus. It has bee...

An American Point of View BY Wor. Frederic L. Milliken For the past several decades, Freemasons worldwide have been preoccupied about the decline in membership. All sorts of reasons have been advanced for this decline and many different solutions have been tried to stop it, but to no avail. The line on the graph of Masonic membership continues its steady downward trend. Lost in the turmoil of argument of reasons and solutions has been the realization that Freemasonry has developed a schism and that breaking apart is in reality about who has the best way to rebuild The Craft. It’s almost as if the Antients and the Moderns were back at it again, but this time it is not over ritual but practice. Today’s Antients assert that Freemasonry is a personal journey of moral improvement that prepares a man to re-enter society as an individual providing to the outside world an example or role model of one who has taken the high road in life. Speaking for Today’s Antients is Provincial Grand Master ...

O A Partir Pedra foi criado com o objectivo de escrever sobre maçonaria. Tem sido animado por Mestres Maçons da Loja Mestre Affonso Domingues. Por muito diversa que seja a maneira que estes Mestres pensem, ela acaba por ser também muito parecida pois tiveram mais ou menos a mesma escola e todos têm uma concepção de Maçonaria muito similar. Modéstia à parte, o trabalho produzido até hoje tem sido notável e tem contribuído para que muitos leitores tenham aumentado o seu conhecimento sobre a Maçonaria. É nosso objectivo continuar a proporcionar mais, e se possível melhor, informação sobre Maçonaria. Uma das formas que encontrámos para tal foi a de tentar ter diferentes maneiras de ver o tema, tendo para tal criado o conceito de “ Autor Convidado” ou se quiserem “Guest Writer”. De entre as várias possibilidades para concretizar este desígnio, escolhemos fazer alguns convites a Maçons de outros países e de consequentemente de outras Grandes Lojas e Lojas para que numa base regular nos envia...