Grand Secretary’s Office
Grand Lodge of Ireland
Freemasons’ Hall
17 Molesworth Steet
Dublin 2
25 September 2014
Dear Barry Lyons,
Please forward the criteria that Grand Lodge applies concerning the monitoring and review to those sentenced with a tariff ‘suspended at the pleasure of Grand Lodge’ and the date when the protocol was approved by Grand Lodge.
This month, I understand that the Province of Antrim re-introduced a no discussion edict regarding new legal action. Grand Lodge is aware that Mr Justice Weatherup (April 2014) High Court ruling advised that Senior Officers actions did not accord to Grand Lodge Law and that property owned by the Province was an underlying issue. He also commented that in effect there was a Civil War but that it was prudent to refer matters to Grand Lodge.
It is uncertain if Grand Lodge believes it was prudent to enmesh itself in a Masonic Civil War to protect Prince Chapter Masons who corrupted the governance of pure Ancient Masonry. Grand Lodge News publicised a Masonic Church Service on 19 October 2008 which incorporated thanksgiving to the refurbishment of Freemasons’ Hall Arthur Square stating that 107 units use the hall. Now, with just over five years elapsed only 77 units use the hall. Thanks to the revelation of Mr Justice Weatherup, the loss of 30 units can be attributed to the Masonic Civil War, as the reduction coincides directly with the holding and organising of Kangaroo Courts by Senior Antrim Officers who deceived their Province and victimised those who queried their poor governance.
Grand Lodge did not dispute the High Court ruling and thus I informed my Lodge not to seek in having my suspension lifted until Grand Lodge informs an end to hostilities. Since 18 March 2009 I have over five years spent on suspension at the pleasure of Grand Lodge and I have no desire to belong to an Order that is in war. That said, I have a right not to be indefinitely suspended and thus I have requested the criteria to be applied.
Discredited Senior Officers as disclosed via the 2008 June Grand Lodge Mediation report continue to be promoted. It is manifest that guilty unmasonic conduct does not prevent promotion within Grand Lodge or Provincial Office. Guilty men judging others is not compatible to Masonic teachings nor to any normal society that has moral standing. However, at a Grand Lodge hearing John Dickson the Provincial Grand Master of Antrim designate was proven guilty of unmasonic conduct by Rodger Mathews who is now the Provincial Grand Master designate of Down. John Hunter the Grand Registrar and Richard Ensor the Grand Treasurer of the same Grand Lodge hearing panel obviously have an obtuse understanding of Masonic Landmarks to permit such a farce. In as much as they also proved John S Dunlop guilty of unmasonic conduct during his tenure as the Provincial Grand Master of Antrim and his Provincial Assistant Grand Master Jack O Dunlop, but they did not reveal or make any reference to the Masonic Civil War crimes.
Maybe the direction to permit such a sham was gleaned from Paul Kenny the Assistant Grand Secretary for Instruction who had unmasonic conduct proven against him before his promotion into Grand Lodge. It is noted that Jim McFarland the Grand Secretary for Instruction gained his promotion in Grand Lodge after he willingly, without objection, counted the Kangaroo Court voting slip ballot held on me. Promotion to him in Grand Lodge, despite his participation as being contrary to the Grand Masters personal instruction that no Antrim Officer should be in attendance on the 18 March 2009. Masonic Instruction exemplified by Gamekeepers turned Poachers. Nor did Jim McFarland’s participation in the Kangaroo Court proceedings exclude him from being promoted to Most Wise Sovereign within Prince Chapter Masonry.
You do recall that it was Prince Chapter Masons which first degraded and sullied my character in Dublin on 11 February 2009 a day after John S Dunlop, as the then Provincial Grand Master, wrote his resignation letter to the Grand Master. John Dickson and John S Dunlop now proven of unmasonic conduct were without impediment, both then promoted to Most Wise Sovereign. Unmasonic conduct evidently is not a hindrance to members within Prince Chapter Masonry or to joining it as Paul Kenny was deemed worthy to be accepted. Whereas I, then in good Masonic standing, was dishonoured a month previous by the self same Prince Chapter Masons that used Craft Masonry to publicly victimise me on 18 March 2009 at a Kangaroo Court. Such accomplishment by despotic leaders in civil wars is not new, but now it is the modus operandi in Irish masonry.
An exemption to a Senior Officer having guilty unmasonic conduct proved against him and also being a member of Prince Chapter Masonry is Jack O Dunlop Provincial Assistant Grand Master of Antrim. It is perceivable that his alleged friends did not assume him trustworthy to hold him in a closer bond. However, no Prince Chapter Mason with proven unmasonic conduct within the Craft has ever been reported at any Grand Lodge communication. But neither has any Grand Lodge or Provincial Officers name and their offence been disclosed to the membership either, unlike how my name was openly and transparently aired. Nor has High Court hearings or its subsequent ruling been reported either. No discussion, no discussion….
Gabriel Haughton of Dublin Metropolitan area, who holds no Grand Lodge or Provincial office, was appointed by Grand Lodge to be the Chairman of my rehearing. With your permission he met me (October 2012) but subsequently stepped down as Chairman and from the entire hearing committee as he was a mason of integrity. Maybe he was unable to reconcile the protection of Senior Officers who hold Kangaroo Court and be party to the continuing victimizing on me. Neither was he a Prince Chapter Mason and thus I suppose he was able to remain true to his Craft obligations.
Grand Lodge is not well served by Douglas T Grey the Deputy Grand Master as he has overseen all wrongdoings by his fellow Prince Chapter Masons whom he has shielded. Along with the Grand Lodges of Scotland and England he, as Acting Grand Master, recently signed the Berlin Declaration (August 2014) to uphold long standing Masonic principals, but I would not place a teddy into his care.
Will Grand Lodge permit discussion on victims or are they null and void?
Yours, and victimised,
Ronnie Wilson.
cc : PGLs, etc.
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