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USA GRAND LODGE OF ANCIENT FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS OF CANADA - GRAND LODGE - 125TH ANNIVERSARY, 1855-1980
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USA GRAND LODGE OF ANCIENT FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS OF CANADA - GRAND LODGE - 125TH ANNIVERSARY, 1855-1980
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1980
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GRAND LODGE OF ANCIENT FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS OF CANADA
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- GRAND LODGE - 125TH ANNIVERSARY , 1855-1980
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Audi, Vide, Tace
is derived from a line of “leonine” verse (from the Middle Ages) and
also used by Free Masons
In full is “Audi, Vide, Tace, Si Vis Vivere In Pace” – meaning hear, see and hold your tongue, if in peace you would live on.
Leonine verse is a type of versification based on internal rhyme, and commonly used in Latin verse of the European Middle Ages.
Freemasonry is a fraternal organization that traces its origins to the local fraternities of stonemasons, which from the end of the fourteenth century regulated the qualifications of masons and their interaction with authorities and clients. The degrees of freemasonry, its gradal system, retain the three grades of medieval craft guilds, those of Apprentice, Journeyman, and Master Mason.
The basic, local organisational unit of Freemasonry is the lodge. The lodges are usually supervised and governed at the regional level (usually coterminous with either a state, province, or national border) by a Grand Lodge or Grand Orient. There is no international, world-wide Grand Lodge that supervises all of Freemasonry.