Postage Stamps for 300th Anniversary of Anderson's Constitutions Include Art by Travis Simpkins

Leichtenstein. 300 Years of Anderson's Constitutions of 1723. Postage Stamps. Portrait by Travis Simpkins

I was recently asked to contribute a portrait of the Reverend James Anderson for a series of postage stamps commemorating the 300th Anniversary of Anderson's Constitutions of the Freemasons. A set of stamps was issued in Leichtenstein and a stamp was also issued in Brazil.

For more info, please visit:

brazilstamps.com.br

Brazil. 300 Years of Anderson's Constitutions of 1723. Postage Stamp. Portrait by Travis Simpkins

 

James Anderson. The Constitutions of the Freemasons. United Grand Lodge of England. by Travis Simpkins

James Anderson. The Constitutions of the Freemasons. United Grand Lodge of England. by Travis Simpkins

Portrait Sketch of

The Reverend

James Anderson

(1679/80 - 1739)

Author of

The Constitutions of the Free-Masons (1723)

Past Junior Grand Warden

Grand Lodge of London and Westminster

(Premier Grand Lodge of England)

United Grand Lodge of England

by Travis Simpkins

The United Grand Lodge of England

For more info, please visit:

ugle.org.uk

James Anderson. The Constitutions of the Freemasons. United Grand Lodge of England. by Travis Simpkins

 

James Anderson. The Constitutions of the Freemasons. United Grand Lodge of England. by Travis Simpkins

James Anderson. The Constitutions of the Freemasons. United Grand Lodge of England. by Travis Simpkins

Portrait Sketch of

The Reverend

James Anderson

(1679/80 - 1739)

Author of

The Constitutions of the Free-Masons (1723)

Past Junior Grand Warden

Grand Lodge of London and Westminster

(Premier Grand Lodge of England)

United Grand Lodge of England

by Travis Simpkins

The United Grand Lodge of England

For more info, please visit:

ugle.org.uk

James Anderson. The Constitutions of the Freemasons. United Grand Lodge of England. by Travis Simpkins

 

The Mason's Words. The History and Evolution of the American Masonic Ritual. Robert G. Davis, 33°, GC

The Mason's Words. The History and Evolution of the American Masonic Ritual. Robert G. Davis, 33°, GC

The Mason's Words, by Ill. and M.W. Robert G. Davis, is essential for anyone interested in the history and evolution of Masonic Ritual in America.


Freemasonry is entirely built around traditions. From time immemorial, those who have belonged to the world's oldest and largest fraternal order have metaphorically passed between the pillars of Solomon's Temple to nurture within themselves a harmonious bond between tradition and modernity. This is the story of the Masonic ritual, the language and ceremonial forms that have evolved into the present structure of American Freemasonry, defined its lodge space, and offered its members the same stablizing influence of instruction that has prevailed on every continent for nearly 400 years. The reader will discover that the language of the world's oldest fraternal society has also made its own interesting journey, and been tested by the most powerful and the most humbling of men. The result is, that, in Masonic lodges across America, and, indeed, the world, men from every walk of life, of all ages, every social category and every spiritual and philosophical conviction are able to find a basis for reflection on who they are, why they are here, and what has meaning to them. By its common language delivered in a common culture of fraternal relationship, Freemasonry is enabled to exemplify a univeral brotherhood of man. This is the story of the Mason's words; the history and evolution of the American Masonic ritual. It is an interesting bit of history that is perhaps all the more fascinating because it is so rarely known.