Masonic Beehive Source: Mackey’s Encyclopedia of Freemasonry In our Twentieth Century America, the word «industry» denotes manufacturing and factories classified as heavy industry and light industry; and connote machines and factory workers. When the Beehive is said to be an emblem of…
The Acacia Fraternity And Masonic Research Source: The Builder January 1915 By Francis W. Shephardson former Grand President The Acacia Fraternity is a society of college men who are Master Masons. It is not a Masonic body in the ordinary acceptation of that expression. It is not a side degree. It…
Abiff Source: Mackey’s Encyclopedia of Freemasonry (or ABIF, or perhaps more correctly ABIV). A name appeared in scripture to that celebrated builder who was sent to Jerusalem by King Hiram, of Tyre, to superintend the construction of the Temple. The word, which in the original Hebrew is…
