Internet Lodge 9659

As our sun never fails to rise and usher in a new day, I 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.

A Message of Welcome from our Worshipful Master, WBro Chris Malpus

Internet Lodge

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. We have a great deal of information for you here, or you can use our links to access more 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.

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Chris Malpus

The next Regular Meeting of Internet Lodge will be at Freemasons' Hall, Bridge Street, Manchester M3 3BT  at 12.00 noon on Saturday 17th March 2012.

Click here for full details of meetings and events in 2012.

Preparatory Visit to Malta November 2011

by W Bro David Starbuck

David Starbuck and a small group of lodge members were delighted to visit Malta in November 2011 to see the preparations being made for the lodge visit in May 2012 This promises to be a superb visit of Masonic Fellowship and social activities and plans are at an advanced stage.

Read on for David's blog ... or or click on the flag for full details

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 ...

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.

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

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

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.



Internet Help
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Guest Book
Access our Guest Book where you can read more than 5000 messages - and counting - and add your own comments

Naunton Liles
Bro Naunton Liles, a member from South Wales has written a series of articles about Masonic Music

   
Members may access the Private Pages and participate in many forums and post to their own personal blogs
Private Web Site

Read the Purpose and Aims of the Lodge to find out what is important to us and what direction we see the Lodge taking
Aims

Bro Alan Tibbetts, a founder member from Ontario, Canada has written a list of "Things I Like about Internet Lodge"
Alan Tibbetts



"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.

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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.