mark masonry?

Question

a kind of masonry. i want to know some details about it

Answer 1

Mark Masonry, as a speculative Degree, is known to be more than 200 years old, for the wording of the Minutes of a meeting at Portsmouth, England in 1769 indicates that it was not then a new innovation. However it was not until 23 June 1856 that the first Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons was constituted in London. Dr Benjamin Archer Kent, a South Australian colonist then visiting London, was a member of the founding Board of the new Grand Lodge, foundation Junior Grand Warden, and from 1857 Provincial Grand Master of Mark Masonry for South Australia. Despite this appointment, there are no records of Dr Kent being actively involved in Mark Masonry within South Australia.
Earlier, in South Australia the Adelaide Lodge of Mark Master Masons was formed by a small group of Mark Masons on 11 July 1854, with John Lazar as Chief Architect, and six other officers. Ten brethren were admitted that day as Mark Masons. This Lodge seems not to have met again. Later some members helped form the Leinster Mark Lodge which continues to meet as part of the Duke of Leinster Royal Arch chapter No.363 I.C., while others became involved in the English Constitution Adelaide Lodge of Mark Master Masons No.41 which was warranted from England on 28 January 1859, first meeting on 3 December 1859. Adelaide Mark Lodge No.41 E.C. did not meet between 1867 and 1883. Later, two other Mark Lodges were formed, namely Moonta Mark Lodge No.432 E.C. in 1891 and Pirie Mark Lodge No.582 E.C. in March 1906. These three Lodges operated under authorisations called Warrants from the Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons of England and Wales.


Further information about the history of Mark Freemasonry in South Australia and Northern Territory is given in the book "Celebrating One Hundred Years 1906-2006".


What is Mark Masonry?
In operative Masonry, the use of distinguishing mark to identify each craftsman's work is a long established practice and was widely employed in the erection of cathedrals, churches, castles and other stately buildings of the Renaissance period in Britain and Europe.
This mark served two useful purposes - it established a craftsman's entitlement to wages and in the event of faulty work, enabled the foreman or overseer to identify the workman responsible.

The ceremony of advancement to the Degree of Mark Master Mason is centred on this practice and is particularly directed to the inculcation of order, regularity, diligence and discipline. Like the second or Fellowcraft Degree of the Craft, it is less concerned with the past and future and more with the here and now of our present life. It places emphasis on not judging people or situations on outward appearances but to seek hidden truths

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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