The meeting to plan the formation of Tzouhalem Chapter, No.26 was held on 26 October 1926 at 1087 Islay Street, the home of Charles William O’Neill.
Here are the Minutes of that meeting: Continue reading Formation of Tzouhalem Chapter, No.26 in October 1926
M.E.C. Norm McEvoy has circulated this interesting article on the history and origins of Royal Arch Masonry. In the interest of getting a wider audience for this article, Tzouhalem Chapter, No.26 is posting it here as a blog post as well as on a permanent web page on our site.
A History of Royal Arch Masonry
Author unknown
No event in the history of speculative Freemasonry has had so important an influence upon its development as a system of symbolism as the invention of the ROYAL ARCH degree and its introduction into Masonic ritual.
The Masonic system of symbolism, as now constituted, presents us with a triple series of antagonisms:
ROYAL ARCH has to do with number 3, that is the antagonism of loss and recovery when symbolized by death and resurrection, and where the ending of the present life and the beginning of future life is perfectly represented in the Master Masons degree. Continue reading A Brief History of Royal Arch Masonry