South Africa Freemasons Flame Lily Lodge
in the District of South Africa North
Freemasons: Flame Lily Lodge No. 8540
Cresta
District Johannesburg
Consecrated: 1973
Meetings: 2nd Friday, Mar, Jun, Aug, Nov
Meeting place:Freemasons' Hall 8 Park Lane, Parktown
Johannesburg
In 1973 an officer from the District of Rhodesia &
Nyasaland, W Bro Bertram Keene, then living in
Johannesburg, approached all other expatriates from
that District residing in the Transvaal to invite
their help in forming a lodge which would provide a
home for masons moving south over the Limpopo River.
There were 37 petitioners for the lodge, the
District Grand Master of Rhodesia, RW Bro C. Winsor,
took part in the ceremony of consecration and in his
oration the District Grand Chaplain, Bro the Revd
Canon Eric Richardson said:
'We are in allegory and symbolically dedicating this
evening a temple for a group of brothers who have
found it necessary to move from their own familiar
land. Had their temple been of stone, they would
have been bereft by their inability to bring it with
them. But since it is not of stone, but a spiritual
edifice, it is easily transplanted and here, this
day, it is set up again and they may know that they
are 'at home....'
With its members meeting four times a year, at 17.30
in lounge suits, and dining afterwards, this was the
third full dining lodge to be formed in the
Transvaal. The lodge grew steadily in strength and
influence and by 1976 was able to sponsor Flame Lily
Royal Arch Chapter, which had a similar dining
pattern.
Many Flame Lily brethren have rendered service to
the District, notably W Bro Garth van Rooyen as
District Grand Secretary from 1986 to 1991 and W Bro
Brad Gillies, who was District Grand Director of
Ceremonies in 1987/8 and again from 1990/2, when he
was appointed Assistant District Grand Master. He
received Grand honours in 1991. He has since been
appointed President of the District Board of General
Purposes, Second District Grand Principal in the
Holy Royal Arch and received Grand Honours from
Supreme Grand Chapter.
In 1985 Flame Lily inaugurated the practice of
holding lunches four times a year at Freemasons'
Hall in Parktown. These are hosted by the Chapter
but open to brethren and non-masons, and have proved
most successful in maintaining members' interest
between meetings
Exsequi Lodge meets at Park
Lane in Johannesburg, South Africa on the fourth Monday of
February (Election Meeting), April (Installation Meeting),
June, August, October and November. Exsequi is a Freemasons
Dining Lodge and masonic guests are most welcome.
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