Digital Edition | November 2024

American Freemasonry is an institution as old as the bones of this great nation. Yet, much like the founding of the United States—eight signers of the Declaration of Independence were born in either England, Scotland, or Wales—American Freemasonry is significantly indebted to the work of our forbears in the United Kingdom.

In my opinion, there is a great deal we can learn from examining the work of those prolific and inspired brethren in all lands; however, in the controversial figure of Dr. William Wynn Westcott, we find a kind of Renaissance man. With both of his parents deceased by the age of ten, Westcott accomplished a remarkable amount in both the fraternity as well as in the communities of which he was a part; leaving to posterity a body of work unequalled for its erudition, elevation, and spiritual penetration into the institution of Freemasonry. 

Fraternally,
Ike Baker
Guest Editor 

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