Clandestine Masonry

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Circular to Lodges in Michigan from Lodges in Illinois concerns the illigitimate body formed in Kalamazoo, Michigan, pretending to be Scottish Rite.

Scope and Contents Correspondence includes a typescript letter to Harvey Newton Brown from Grand Master Charles R. Bonnefort. Letter concerns Brown's affiliation with Anglo-Saxon Lodge, No. 343, in Texas which was chartered by the Grande Loge de France. G. M. Bonnemort explained that this membership constitutes affiliation with a clandestine lodge and is a violation of his obligation to Masons in Rhode Island (Brown is also a member of Berlin Lodge No. 46 of Rhode Island). Also includes the response of Harvey...

Scope and Contents A clandestine Master Mason certificate issued by Lodge Sobieski, No. 134 (Elizabeth, New Jersey), to John Kulczycki and dated 1921. Lodge Sobieski, No. 134, was a Masonic body within Matthew McBlaine Thomson's International Masonic Federation, a later incarnation of Thomson's American Masonic Federation, a clandestine Masonic organization whose leaders were convicted at Salt Lake City, Utah, on May 5, 1922, on ten counts of mail fraud. Thomson's International Masonic Federation also used the...

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Resolution between the Grand Lodge of Ohio and the Supreme Council of Ancient and Accepted Rite of Louisiana, stating that members in Ohio are prohibited from receiving Symbolic Degree through the Lousiana Supreme Council. It is signed (printed signature) by John D. Caldwell, Grand Secretary of Ohio.

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This document purports that African-American State Grand Lodges are in open violation of Masonic law. Houston, an African-American, was the Sovereign Grand Master of Lodges of the U. S. A.