The Guild of Masons (ctd) The Regalia worn by Guild Masons consists of only two items. An apron of tanned leather, or of a suitable substitute material, of any reasonable dimension since historically, operative stonemasons manufactured their own aprons, and a breast jewel. The apron is not worn centrally but over the left hip. The breast jewel is suspended from various coloured ribbons depending upon the Rank of the holder. Those Guild Masons holding the 1st. to the 4th. Degrees wear the jewel suspended from blue ribbon, those of the 5th. and 6th. De-
grees, wear it suspended from a red ribbon and the ribbon of the jewel of Passed Masters is gold in colour. Grand Officers wear the jewel of their Rank with the addition of a Crown placed on the ribbon. The Daughter Guild Lodges holding of the Grand Sanhedrin: Aberdeen Guild Lodge Glasgow & Auld West Guild Lodge – Moray Firth Guild Lodge – Rothes The Highland Guild Lodge – Alness The Scoon & St. John’s Toune Guild Lodge – Perth The Lanarkshire Guild Lodge – Coatbridge
Grand Lodge of Estonia Freemasonry arose in Estonia between 1771 and 1773, when a lodge was founded in Tallinn. At the prohibition of the Craft in Tsarist Russia in 1822, there were four lodges in Estonia.
The Craft was reformed in Estonia in 1992, when Lodge Phoenix started. There are currently eighteen lodged in Estonia, in Tallinn, Tartu, Parnu, Haapsalu, Viljandi and Rakvere. On 18 May 1999, the Grand Lodge of Estonia was founded. The images of the stairs cannot fail to impress candidates.
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