United Grand Lodge of England
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Oct 11, 2026
TrogHOST
You wouldn't do it.
DonkeyHOST
One of the things I heard the Grandmaster Mason talk on a podcast, and yeah, the podcast was Craftcast, the UGLE's official podcast.
DonkeyHOST
Other podcasts are available.
DonkeyHOST
But if you've not watched it, go and have a look at it.
Wesley ReuterHOST
[laughs]
Matthew ParkerGUEST
And we do know that very early on in the UGLE there were, uh, lodges for Jews, and they would have separate lodges.
Matthew ParkerGUEST
So we know early on Jews were involved.
Matthew ParkerGUEST
But yeah, the framing of the ritual, especially in, uh, the...
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Matthew ParkerGUEST
Yep.
Wesley ReuterHOST
Wow.
Matthew ParkerGUEST
And now it is its own re- it's a UGLE recognized, um, grand lodge.
BrockHOST
Yeah.
RebeccaHOST
And out of the world of operative stonemasonry and early modern gentleman society emerges modern Freemasonry.
RebeccaHOST
The first Grand Lodge of England is established in 1717.
RebeccaHOST
And suddenly we have something that looks, at least superficially anyway, familiar.
RebeccaHOST
There is initiation, degrees, ritual, secrets, a progression from one level of understanding.
Scott FosterNARRATOR
Masonry soon spread to Holland in 1730, to Germany in 1736, to Ireland in 1729, and afterwards to Italy, Spain, and Europe generally.
Scott FosterNARRATOR
All its lodges were placed under the Grand Lodge of England and remained so for many years.
Scott FosterNARRATOR
I mention these facts and dates in order to let you see that precisely at the period when Freemasonry was thus extending abroad, the infidelity, which had been introduced by Bale and openly advocated by Voltaire, was being disseminated largely amongst the corrupt nobility of France and of Europe generally.
Scott FosterNARRATOR
It was, as we have already seen, a period of universal license and morals with the great in every country, and the members of the Grand Lodge in England were generally men of easy virtue, whose example was agreeable to the continental libertines.
Scott FosterNARRATOR
Masonry soon spread to Holland in 1730, to Germany in 1736, to Ireland in 1729, and afterwards to Italy, Spain, and Europe generally.
Scott FosterNARRATOR
All its lodges were placed under the Grand Lodge of England and remained so for many years.
Scott FosterNARRATOR
I mention these facts and dates in order to let you see that precisely at the period when Freemasonry was thus extending abroad, the infidelity, which had been introduced by Bale and openly advocated by Voltaire, was being disseminated largely amongst the corrupt nobility of France and of Europe generally.
Scott FosterNARRATOR
It was, as we have already seen, a period of universal license and morals with the great in every country, and the members of the Grand Lodge in England were generally men of easy virtue, whose example was agreeable to the continental libertines.
Carl BirkenshawHOST
So Guy, for those that don't know, for the very few people that do not know, tell us a bit about what you've been doing the last couple of weeks.
Guy Spencer-SmithGUEST
Well, the last couple of weeks, Monday the 1st of June, I decided to take myself on a little jaunt down the country, down to the Grand Lodge of England, bypassing.
Guy Spencer-SmithGUEST
nine other provincial Grand Lodges en route, hopefully raising plenty of money for the MCF, our festival, which has just kicked off.
Carl BirkenshawHOST
For those viewers that don't know, Guy is in Newcastle upon Tyne, not Newcastle upon Lyme, that's Newcastle upon Tyne.
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Graeme ButterfieldHOST
But just for the listeners, the viewers, et cetera, we're talking you left Lansdowne Terrace in Gosforth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on Monday the 1st of June.
Graeme ButterfieldHOST
Yes.
Graeme ButterfieldHOST
And your aim was to get to United Grand Lodge of England in London, 400 miles away, within 10 days.
Graeme ButterfieldHOST
That's
Graeme ButterfieldHOST
Yes.
Graeme ButterfieldHOST
And your aim was to get to United Grand Lodge of England in London, 400 miles away, within 10 days.
Graeme ButterfieldHOST
That's
Guy Spencer-SmithGUEST
right.
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Carl BirkenshawHOST
It was an incredible challenge.
Carl BirkenshawHOST
And the provinces along the way, Guy, there was some great support.
Carl BirkenshawHOST
In particular, we had a certain member of United Grand Lodge joined you twice, I believe.
Carl BirkenshawHOST
That's right,
Julian ReesGUEST
This'll tickle your...
Julian ReesGUEST
When I came to write the history of my mother lodge, my UGLE mother lodge, which was 100 years old in 2000, and so we had to write a history.
Julian ReesGUEST
I started looking back at some of the old members, and there were one or two members who never came, right? They were on the membership list.
Julian ReesGUEST
They paid their subscriptions every year.
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Julian ReesGUEST
Exactly
Troy SprueHOST
... that has esoteric tools built in.
Troy SprueHOST
I think in reading this book, one understands why you left UGLE and joined Le Droit Humain.
Troy SprueHOST
I think the character you p- you paint yourself when that confrontation happens, it's not surprising that you reacted the way you did.
Aidan MattisHOST
And if you've gone through transition surgery.
Aidan MattisHOST
So a fully transitioned transgender man can join the Freemasons in the Grand Lodge of England.
Aidan MattisHOST
I don't think Scotland has the same rules.
Aidan MattisHOST
Conversely, a person who became a Mason and then transitioned into becoming a woman can remain a Mason.
Freeman FlyGUEST
I have been to every Masonic temple in America, basically every Grand Lodge, I should say.
Freeman FlyGUEST
And I've been to the Grand Lodge of Australia, the Grand Lodge of England, and I photographed and filmed all of this for you.
Freeman FlyGUEST
So on my website on freemantv.com, you'll find my Flickr account and you can go and see inside all of these Mason temples and the George Washington Masonic Memorial, which is completely Hebrew.
Freeman FlyGUEST
uh, Kabbalistic, you know, you won't find anything about America in the George Washington Masonic Memorial.
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