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This paper advances a new light on the arrival of Freemasonry to China. Normally that event is explained by the arrival of the British to the Chinese East Coast and by the outcome of the two Opium Wars. The author explores an alternative path of the Masonic entrance in China by looking to Macau and to the documented arrival of a ship of the Swedish Company of Eastern India Islands transporting Freemasons with a charter, given by the Grand Royal Lodge of Sweden to held Masonic meetings in any port they board.
A paper by W Bro A.M.A. Gonçalves 30°, Luz do Oriente #80 Lodge, Grand Legal Lodge of Portugal.

This address was delivered on 26 May 2011 in Sheffield before the members of the Manchester Association for Masonic Research. Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076, London, awarded Alain Bernheim the Norman Spencer Prize twice (1986 and 1993) and he is presently a full member and an Officer of the Lodge. The Scottish Rite Research Society (SRRS) awarded Ill. Alain Bernheim, 33° the Albert Gallatin Mackey Award "for Lifetime Achievement", a distinction which was awarded five times only since the SRRS was founded and never before to a non-American Brother.

It is a little known fact that during Apartheid in South Africa there was only one organization permitted to fraternize or socialize with Colored people. This organization was Freemasonry.

This paper by Bro. Desmond Lemmon-Warde, Grand Lodge of South Africa, also includes historical documentation.

A paper by W Bro Harvey Lovewell, Lodge Millaa Millaa #351, United Grand Lodge of Queensland, AU. In this short paper the author has tried to show the interrelationship that exists between freemasonry and geometry, the relationship of the Golden section, Golden mean, or Golden proportion to geometry and masonry.

An inquiry into the designation of the Saints John as Patron Saints of Freemasonry by W.Bro. Harvey L. Ward Jr. PM, Schafer Lodge No. 350, Grand Lodge of Florida, Usa