Talk:Tracing board

Good start
May I suggest including a picture of a typical tracing board to show what is talked about? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Blueboar (talk • contribs) 15:57, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Inline citations are needed
As the article grows, we need to start citing specific statements and facts to specific authors. Blueboar 01:19, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Frieda Harris a Co-Mason?
In the article, it is claimed that "However, Co-Mason Lady Frieda Harris". Though the tracing boards she painted certainly suggests that she was indeed either a Co-Mason or a member of a women's only Masonic Order, I have yet to see any evidence of the same. She appears to have been initiated into Crowley's A.A. and, in a letter following Crowley's death, surmising that she was a member of (Crowley's version of) the O.T.O., there seems to be a lack of evidence as to her Co-Masonic status.

In the link Wikipedia entry to Frieda Harris, by the way, there is a further claim that Co-Freemasonry was created by members of the Theosophical Society, a clear error in Masonic history.

202.61.162.166 (talk) 04:17, 25 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Noted and corrected. If anyone does come up with confirmation that she was a co-Mason, they can add it back with citation. Blueboar (talk) 12:26, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

UK bias
There is a subtle (and I assume unintentional) UK bias showing here. I think there is an assuption that all Masonic lodges do things the same way things are done in England. This is inaccurate. I think we need to point out that while tracing boards may have been common in England, they were significantly less common in the US... and they are all but unheard of in most modern US Lodges. The same is true for other statements, such as the reference to lodges using a cloth depicting Hiram's grave... from what I hear these are/were common in the UK, but they were/are not used in most US Lodges. Blueboar (talk) 14:05, 9 October 2008 (UTC)