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Massachusetts Freemasons

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Freemasonry,The Knights Templar, The
DaVinci Code
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• Symbols most expressive

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Pix QMT
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First Crusade 1096
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Poor Fellow Knights of Jesus Christ
1099Cistercian
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Military Orders

• Knights Templar
• Knights Hospitaller
• Teutonic Knights

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Beaucant/Beauseant
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Knights TemplarCouncil of Troyes 1128St
Bernard of Clairvaux
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Knights Hospitaller c1100 (Benedictine)
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Knights Hospitaller (Knights of Malta)
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Knights Hospitaller Grand Master
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Order of the Teutonic Knights of Mary in
Jerusalem c1100
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Jacques de Molay
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WWI Prussian Cross
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• symbols most expressive

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Marienberg/Marlbork
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• Ulrich von Jungingen
• 26th Grand Master
• Killed at the
• Battle of Tannenberg
• (Grunwald)
• 15 July 1410

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Ulrich in Krzyzacy Knights of the Teutonic
Order 1960 Novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz 1900
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Teutonic Knights
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Templars1118 Site on Mount Moriah
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Knights Templar churches
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Vera Cruz, Segovia
Vera Cruz SegoviaSpain
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Temple Church, London 1185
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Tomar Portugal
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Acre/Akko, Israel
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Krak des Chevaliers, Syria
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What is Freemasonry?
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National Treasure
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• It is first and foremost a Fraternity

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Freemasonry

• We are a fraternity of respect-A fraternity
  that makes good men better

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• The leader of a lodge isThe Master

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• The Lodge is part of a Grand Lodge

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The Grand LodgebuildingDowntown Boston
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Corinthian HallGrand Lodge, Boston
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• The leader of a Grand Lodge is a Grand Master

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Grand Lodge of EnglandLondon
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Grand Masters Finland, Iceland, Sweden,
Norway, Denmark, Germany, Italy.Freemasonry is
worldwide
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Masonic History
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Self-improvement

• Freemasons believe in respect
• Respect for established customs
• Respect for all people

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Signs symbols
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• Tools and implements of architecture
• symbols most expressive
• have been selected by the Fraternity
• to imprint on the memory
• wise and serious truths

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Allegory
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Allegory
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• Tools and implements of architecture
• symbols most expressive
• have been selected by the Fraternity
• to imprint on the memory
• wise and serious truths
• William Preston 1772

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• A candidate passes through three formaldegree
  ceremoniesFirst Degree EASecond Degree
  FCThird Degree MM

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The tenets of a Freemason(core beliefs)
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The tenets of a Freemason

• Brotherly love

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The tenets of a Freemason

• Brotherly love
• Relief (Charity)

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The tenets of a Freemason

• Brotherly love
• Relief (Charity)
• Truth

The tenets of your profession are Brotherly
Love, Relief and Truth - Thomas Dunckerley
1769
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• Childrens Learning Centers
• 59 establishments

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• Shriners Hospital
• Boston
• - one of 22
• Shriners hospitals

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• Shriners Hospital
• University of Texas

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• Shriners Hospital
• Houston

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Shriners are Freemasons
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Local charity

• Q youth sports
• Q schools scholarships
• Q schools angel program
• Q schools child ID program (MYCHIP)
• Q schools defibrillator program
• Q National Guard program
• Blood donor program
• Cradles to Crayons

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Appendant Bodies

• Scottish RiteYork RiteShrinersEastern
  StarDeMolayRainbow

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Appendant Bodies

• Scottish RiteYork RiteShrinersOESDeMolayRainb
  ow

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15,000 Knights Templar
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Knights Templar
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Godefroy de Bouillon1060-1100First Crusade
1096succeeded by Baldwin Id 1118
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• France
• 1307

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King Philip IV
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Philippe le Bel
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October 1307
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Friday 13thOctober 1307
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Jacques de Molay
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Jacques de Molay 1314
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The Templar fleet?La RochelleFrance
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London
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Tomar
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Order of Christ (Portugal)
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Rebirth of the Templars
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Ashmolean MuseumOxford
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Elias Ashmole1617-1692Antiquarian,Herald,
Freemason (1646)
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Templars

• Our ancestors the Crusaders gathered together
  from all parts of Christendom in the Holy Land,
  desired thus to reunite into one sole fraternity
  the individuals of all nations.
• - Chevalier Andrew Michael Ramsay 1737

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Order of De Molay
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Templars

• SMOM 1804
• Scottish Knights Templar 1810
• Masonic Knights Templar
• Christi Pauperum Militium Ordo - Militia Templi
  (Catholic) 1979

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Jacques de Molay
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Rosslyn/Roslin Chapel, Scotland
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William Sinclair 3rd Earl of Orkney Baron
Roslin
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• A later William Sinclair
• became the first
• Grand Master of Masons
• in Scotland

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AbbotsfordHome of Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832
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• Tools and implements of architecture
• symbols most expressive
• have been selected by the Fraternity
• to imprint on the memory
• wise and serious truths
• William Preston 1772

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1768
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