Last night I watched the first episode of the BBC's Dancing on the Edge and feel compelled to point out the masonic flaws. First of all the peep hole in the laundry cupboard. What is this Scooby Doo? Is there a picture on the other side with an eye missing with a mysterious slot for when somebody wishes to view the proceedings? Don't you think an organisation as private as the masons would have noticed a 30mm hole in the wall if it's at head height?
Secondly, the regalia is wrong. For a costume drama I would have hoped they put a bit more thought in providing authentic regalia. What they were wearing was decidedly modern and did not look like the regalia they wore in those day (I am in possession of a 1950s Master Masons apron) rather than the plastic-based material we wear today.
Thirdly, the chap who shows them the peep hole (I forget his name) is wearing cuffs. Why? If he is an officer he should be wearing a collar as well (depends upon the Lodge), but if he has just been made a Master Mason why would he be wearing the half-dressed regalia of an officer? Why has he progressed so quick?
Fourthly, what an earth is he doing with that trowel he threw on the desk? This has no particular significance to the Raising ceremony (it has later on, as many Masons will know) and is usually an ornament that belongs to the Lodge as a whole. What did he do, nick it?
Well, no particular harm done yet. Though we can see where it's going. I fear that much cliched narrative device called a 'masonic conspiracy' is on the horizon.
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