Issue 12 of the Journal of the Masonic Society Coming

Issue 12 of the Journal of the Masonic Society will be landing in mailboxes soon.

Highlights from this issue include:

• The Broach’d Thurnal Revisited
by William S. Burkle

• The Dwellers on the Threshold by Michael Poll

• A Short Lesson on the Origins and Evolution of Freemasonry by Peter G. Knatt

• The Operatives By Michael A. Lampadarios
Climbing Up Jacob's Ladder by J. Winfield Cline

• Traveling by Christopher L. Hodapp

• 2011 Masonic Week Notebook

Plus Masonic Treasures; The Gentleman Mason - our regular column of style, manners, book reviews, tobacciana, and spirits; news and events from all over the Masonic world; and products from our great advertisers.

This issue’s cover features St. Bruno orders the construction of the monastery by Eustache Le Sueur (1616-1655). It is one of a series of twenty-two paintings depicting the life of Saint Bruno created between 1645 and 1648 for the cloister of a Carthusian charterhouse in Paris, which was near today’s Jardin du Luxembourg. It was dissolved 1792, and the panels are now in the Louvre.



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