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Square & Compasses No. 93 October 2019

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Our founding Fathers, when compiling our rituals were well aware that human nature changes not in its essentials and will remain much as it is in the future as it has done so in the past. They took the opportunity to insist that we should avoid certain subjects of discussion in the Lodge.

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