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Blue Friar 2019

By March 6, 2019August 22nd, 2023One Comment

While I don’t normally like to talk about myself, I must share an extraordinary act of kindness which took place on Friday, February 22 at Masonic Week in Crystal City, VA.

I was elected to become the Blue Friar for 2019!

Now, for those of you who’ve never heard of this, the Society of Blue Friars was established in 1982 by J.Raymond Shute (who was responsible from bringing a number of Masonic Orders across from Europe to the United States) as a means to recognize Masonic scholars who had been published as authors. Only one is selected a year, and the field is international. Blue Friars have been selected from the United States, France, Switzerland, England, Scotland, Canada and Israel. As an Englishman I am proud to share the illustrious title with such British luminaries as Arthur Edward Waite (1939), Fred Lomax Pick (1955), Harry Carr (1963), Frederick H. Smythe (1970), John M. Hamill (1988) and Yasha Beresiner (2009), to name a few.
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My Inaugural Speech was titled “Did Saint-Martin Influence the Rectified Rite?” and will appear in Heredom, the scholarly publication of the Southern Masonic Jurisdiction of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, later this year.

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I am still amazed that I am in the company of so many of the greatest Masonic scholars of my time. Thank you for the great honor!

Piers Vaughan

Piers Vaughan

Piers Vaughan was born in Brighton, England, and following sojourns in Germany and Switzerland, lives just outside New York City. He was educated at Brighton College, Oxford and Cranfield Universities, and holds M.A.s in Psychology and Divinity, and an M.B.A. He worked in banking for most of his life, as a Project Manager and Internal Consultant in IT and Operations, later acting as COO of a small training company based in New Jersey. He has been a Freemason most of his life, and is a member of St. John's Lodge No. 1 in New York, which was founded in 1757, and is the guardian of the George Washington Inaugural Bible. He is a 33rd Degree Mason in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, and a Past Grand High Priest of the Grand Chapter State of New York, Royal Arch Masons, which he currently serves as Grand Treasurer. He is also a long-standing member of a number of esoteric Orders, having helped to bring a number of these to the United States from England and France. He is also Primate of the Apostolic Church of the Golden & Rosy Cross, a descendent of the Pre-Nicene Church of Richard, Duc de Palatine. He has a particular interest in the Orders, Rituals and protagonists of 18th Century French Masonic and Esoteric Orders, and has built a reputation translating many source documents into English, and lecturing around the world on these topics.

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