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believe that Internet Lodge 9659 is playing a part in bringing forward a new dawn for
Freemasonry in the 21st century. Stephen Brash, Toronto, Canada, designer of the above banner.
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A Message of Welcome from our Worshipful Master, WBro David Starbuck
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Welcome to the Internet Lodge web site. If you are a Freemason looking for information on this lodge or Freemasonry in general, or just someone
curious about the Craft, you are invited to look around. There is a great deal of information here and
many links to other masonic web sites.
Please enjoy your visit to our web site, and I invite you to tell us what you think by leaving a message in our guest book.
Read the full message here
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Bro Alex Viner
30th January 1937 to 2nd May 2012
Our dearly loved Brother Alex Viner passed to the Grand Lodge Above after a difficult illness on 2nd May 2012.
Alex was a former tireless secretary and chaplain of the lodge and in November 2011 was awarded the very high
rank of Past Provincial Senior Grand Warden in the province of East Lancashire and he held provincial rank in two other provinces
He was a delightful and fun loving colleague and friend and took full part in all the activities of the lodge
He is now at peace and relieved of his suffering and will be sadly missed by all those who knew him.
We all express our sincerest condolences to his wife, Jan, with whom he spent over 50 happy years.
John Dutchman-Smith May 2012
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Atlantic Brotherhood Summit June 2011
by W Bro John Dutchman-Smith
Several members of the lodge from the U.K. and the U.S.A. were delighted to accept an invitation from the
Sir Winston Churchill Lodge from the Grand Lodge of Minnesota
to join them for a weekend of fraternal and social activities in Minneapolis in June 2011.
Internet Lodge were to demonstrate with the permission of the United Grand Lodge of England
a third degree ceremony in emulation ritual in the Scottish Rite temple in Minneapolis. Some 250
masons attended the demonstration. There were several social events and some members of the lodge
remained in Minneapolis for a couple of days during which they attended the open installation of Lebanon
Lodge and a third degree ceremony in Lake Harriet Lodge. A superb weekend in true Masonic tradition.
Read on for one member's blog ...
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The LILies
Internet Lodge has a very active ladies group made up of partners and friends of members of the Lodge. The call
themselves the "LILies", short for Ladies of Internet Lodge.
They have their own private mailing list and web site, known as the Lilypond. As well as news and
information about upcoming events, the Lilypond has a discussion forum and a gallery where members can upload photographs.
The LILies wear a pin, shown in the illustration, which depicts a Trillium Grandiflora. The white trillium lily is
found, among other places, in Ontario, Canada, the home Province of Jane Tibbetts, the first chair of the LILies group.
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Technology Study Group
The Use of the Internet by Freemasonry
During 2010 the lodge set up a group of members who undertook this study. In recent years the Internet has seen massive
change and development, with new services and facilities appearing,
and sometimes disappearing, with great rapidity. The primary aim of this study wass to ensure that, as Freemasons, we
keep up to speed with new developments on the Internet and, where appropriate, take advantage of them.
This is a generic version of the report which was was published internally to the Lodge in April 2010. The original
report contained much material which was specific to Internet Lodge.
We hope that this generic version will be of interest to the wider Masonic community.
Click here to read it
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An Introduction to English Freemasonry
An introduction to English Freemasonry particularly for members of other constitutions
We are pleased to publish an Introduction to English Freemasonry which is based on an original idea by the Grand Lodge of Western Australia
It attempts to explain much about English Freemasonry and is particularly intended to benefit Freemasons of different Constitutions.
Click here to read it
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International Development Scheme
A scheme to assist the re-establishment of Freemasonry
In those now independent countries of the old Soviet bloc and Yugoslavia, there has been a welcome
re-establishment, a re-birth, of freemasonry. This is a freemasonry that had lain dormant for many years, having been erased from the life of
those countries during the long periods of first Nazi and then Communist oppression.
During those years of oppression and subjugation many Masonic buildings were destroyed, together with their historic contents. Valuable
furnishings and fittings and works of Masonic art were destroyed.
When freemasonry was revived in those countries those new lodges were therefore starting from nothing; nothing that is except a
strong and driving force present in good men who wanted to establish an independent freemasonry in their own country.
The brethren of Internet Lodge therefore want to assist in this most worthy purpose. We want to provide help and support to those newly forming
lodges and by so doing strengthen and encourage an emerging freemasonry in those countries. As a valuable by-product of such help and support we
will further cement the good international relationships between countries, between brethren and between lodges, both Grand and constituent.
Click here for an explanation of the scheme and how it helped the consecration of Wolnosc Odzyskana (Freedom Restored) Lodge No 10 in Poland.
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Visit our Internet Help Centre to find useful
information about viruses, scams, e-mail netiquette and tips on how to stay safe on-line
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Access our Guest Book where you can
read more than 5000 messages - and counting - and add your own comments
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Bro Naunton Liles, a member from South Wales has written a series of articles about
Masonic Music
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Members may access the Private Pages and participate
in many forums and post to their own personal blogs
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"You can get more Masonry in this Lodge in a week than you do in a year
in a traditional Lodge".
Our members come from all over the world including: Andorra, Australia, Bermuda, Brazil,
Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Grenada, India, Italy,
Kosovo, Lebanon, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, The Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia,
Serbia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Arab Emirates,
the United States of America and Venezuela,; as well as Scotland,
Ireland and the Isle of Man and from all corners of England and Wales.
Freemasons who are members of UGLE, or any Grand Lodge that is recognized by
and in accord with UGLE, are welcome to become joining members. Information and
the appropriate forms can be found on this site, please see the menu bars above.
Join us!
- and if you want 10 good reasons why, click here
If you are looking for information about Freemasonry in
general, please visit the web site of the United
Grand Lodge of England
or that of the Library and Museum
of Freemasonry.
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