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Coronatio Quadrans – “21st Century Alchemy – Alchemy in the Digital Age”

Coronation Lodge No. 2927 has a quarterly Masonic Publication associated with it called Coronatio Quadrans, or CQ for short.
One part of the publication is “Question from the Master” This is where the Lodge’s Worshipful Master asks a esoteric or masonic question to the Lodge Mentor who will answer it in an article in the next edition. After the Mentor answers the question, the “Question” is thrown open to all, and anyone can try and answer it themselves anonymously. The CQ Editors will read all the submissions and pick the best which gets published in CQ.
The Question in the last edition of CQ was “What is the Significance of Portals in Freemasonry?” The question intrigued me,so I decided to throw my hat into the ring and anonymously answer the question. To my shock my entry actually won, and my prize was to write a paper on a topic of my own choosing.
The topic I selected was “21st Century Alchemy – Alchemy in the Digital Age” which is my attempt to answer the question “Who are the modern-day alchemists?”
I first asked myself this question when I needed to wrote a short paper to present upon my going into the chair of Clwyd College. So I decided to expand on this question and turn it into an article for CQ.
You can read a copy of this article HERE -=> CQ – 21st Century Alchemy – Alchemy in the Digital Age
Wrexham, Caergwrle & Dee Valley Lodges & Chapters
The Province of North Wales is broken down into 10 groups, each with a Group Chairman and a selection of Lodges and Chapters that fall into that Group or Area.
For the last few years Group 8 has been shrinking due to Lodges and Chapters closing, or moving to different Halls. During the same time Group 7 has been growing, mostly due to the relocation of lodges from Group 8. It was therefore decided, that since both Group 7 & 8’s chairmen were stepping down this year, that the two groups would merge together and create a supergroup with a new Group Chairman. (It made sense since most the people in the Group were in both groups anyway due to locational closeness)
Since September the new Super-Group has been in existence and this evening a bunch of us met up to plan what we are going to do moving onwards. There are a lot of plans moving forward.

BBW – Talk for the Lodge of Rhuddlan Castle
Today Nev, Hugh, and Myself went along to the White Table meeting of The Lodge of Rhuddlan Castle, to give a presentation on Blood Bikes Wales.
It was a well attended meeting, with a large number of Masons, and None-Masons (or not yet Masons) in attendance. The Lodge pledged £5657 to the 2028 Festival, £350 to the North Wales Mountain Rescue, and £1,500 to Blood Bikes Wales.

We were then treated to a Gourmet five course meal, in great company, with as much wine and port as we wanted (poor Nev was the designated driver).
It is a hard job, but someone has to do it. #ItsWhatWeDo


Blood Bikes Wales
Blood Bikes Wales is a charity that transports blood, plasma, platelets, samples, vaccines, donor breast-milk & any other urgently required medical items to hospitals at night, weekends and bank holidays. This service is provided completely free of charge, allowing the NHS to divert funds where they are needed most.
Our riders are a hardy bunch that operate in all but the very worst weather.
Coronatio Quadrans – Who am I?

Who am I?
This is a deep and complicated question, and one I ask myself almost as often as other people ask me “Who are you?”. Normally in these situations I simply answer “I am Me!” which while being technically a correct answer, does not actually answer the question.
This time my normal answer is not good enough. I have been informed by “The Editors” of Coronatio Quadrans that along with submitting my paper for their next edition, I must also supply a brief “bio” so that the readers of the magazine can find out who I am.
This had the affect of both crushing my ego because how can they not know who I am? Don’t they know who I am? I am IMPORTANT! It also had the issue of me now needing to write a simple bio. Now I know you dear reader are thinking that can not be much of an issue, after all I have had a personal website since the very early 90s, I am all over the place and many sites need you to put a simple bio in.
Well you are correct, but again “The Editors” would not allow me to put any of my normal ones on. I asked AI who I was, and it came up with lots of information about me, some of which I did not know. I do now have to write three of the books it claimed I have written because the topics sounded interesting.
I procrastinated for weeks, until I finally settled down to write something that was not too rubbish, and this is what I came up with.
W.Bro. Wayne Owens PProvSGD
Wayne is a polymath who was born at a very early age and, quite impressively, has not died yet-something he considers to be a notable achievement. He joined Llannerch Lodge in 2006 and has been deeply involved in Freemasonry ever since. Wayne is a member of Wrexhamian Lodge, the Maesgwyn Lodge of Installed Masters, and the Provincial Grand Stewards Lodge of North Wales.
In 2011, Wayne became the Master of Llannerch Lodge and has spent eleven of the ensuring thirteen years in one chair or another. He is the Secretary of the Maesgwyn Lodge of Installed Masters, and Bishop Wilkins College SRIA.
His commitment to Masonry in North Wales is extensive. He was a founding member of the Widows Sons North Wales chapter, served as the Provincial Webmaster for five years, and has been the Assistant Provincial Mentor since 2021. Additionally, Wayne is an active member of the North Wales Association of Masonic Study and been giving talks across several provinces since 2017.
Wayne is also a fervent supporter of the Blood Bikes Wales charity, dedicating his time and effort to this vital cause.
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A Secret Flowering of Skill and Genius
This evening I went along to Mold Masonic Hall to attend the Daniel Owen Festival English lecture by Robert Lomas titled “A Secret Flowering of Skill and Genius, about how Daniel came to write Y Dreflan.“
It covered the time between Daniel coming back to Mold from Bala, his accident, and the start of his writing career.
It was an enjoyable talk, and the Mold lodges managed to raise some money for charity.


In 1881, Daniel Owen’s wrote his first original novel which was originally published in chapters in Y Drysorfa during 1879-80. In the 140+ years this important piece of Welsh literature has never been translated into English.
This was a shame, since it prevent newer generations from reading this work, even older Welsh speakers would struggle with the unique Mold Welsh in which Daniel wrote.
Robert Lomas has spent the last two years translating this book, and it is now for the first time available in English. You can pick it up from Amazon, or all sensible book stores.
(I am not just saying this because I wrote an introduction in the book)
The Never-ending Chair
At the recent Installation meeting of Wrexhamian Chapter, we had a slight issue. A friend of mine who was elected to go into the chair of Joshua had to pull out due to some ongoing health issues, which would prevent him being able to take on the role this year. Before his illness got worse, I had told him that I would cover for him, and any meetings he was unable to attend, I would simply stand in on the night. So when we received the news he was unable to take the role this year, I was asked could I save the day and commit myself to three years as J,H & Z. My father was J at the time, so it would also mean I got my father putting me into the three chairs. So it was a no brainer. I accepted!
But this has got me realising a few things.
Since I tool the chair of Bishop Wilkins College in 2018, I have been in at least one chair every year since (at the worst three chairs). Abd it now looks like this will continue for at least three years.
But it gets worse. Since I first ever went into a chair, which was Llannerch Lodges chair way back in 2011, there has only been two years when I have not been in a chair. And one of those I was doing all the ceremonies from the IPM’s spot.
I wonder if that is a record? Especially since I am only in four orders.
YEAR | CRAFT | ROYAL ARCH | SRIA | ROSE CROIX |
2011 | Llannerch Lodge | |||
2012 | Llannerch Lodge | |||
2013 | ||||
2014 | J – Wynnstay Chapter | |||
2015 | H – Wynnstay Chapter | |||
2016 | Z – Wynnstay Chapter | |||
2017 | ||||
2018 | Bishop Wilkins College | |||
2019 | Bishop Wilkins College | Valle Crucis Chapter | ||
2020 | Bishop Wilkins College | Valle Crucis Chapter | ||
2021 | Wrexhamian Lodge | Bishop Wilkins College | Valle Crucis Chapter | |
2022 | Valle Crucis Chapter | |||
2023 | Clwyd College | |||
2024 | J – Wrexhamian Chapter |
Year of a Busy Mason [2] The first Month
Well the first month of the Masonic season has now ended.
As I look back on September, I am reminded why I started the “Year of a Busy Mason” last year. September is always a busy month. At least this year I have not visited anywhere yet, although that will change soon.
I have been to 6 meetings over 3 orders in 4 Masonic Halls, On top of that there has been 5 rehearsals, and 2 committee meeting. Which if my math is correct equals 12 evening (2 events were on the same day) which makes you think about the joke that masonry is just 8 evenings a year.
BBW – Talk for Gwerswult Scouts and Cubs
This evening Neville Owens, Hugh Jackson, and Myself went along to visit the Gwerswult Scouts and Cubs to give tell them a little bit on what Blood Bikes Wales do.
They were very well behaved, and asked a lot of interesting questions.
The Scouts gave us a donation of £50, and have said they will do a fundraising event in aid of Blood Bikes Wales next summer. Probably a sponsored hike or similar, which we have promised to turn up mid way with water and a Blood Bike to show our thanks.


Blood Bikes Wales
Blood Bikes Wales is a charity that transports blood, plasma, platelets, samples, vaccines, donor breast-milk & any other urgently required medical items to hospitals at night, weekends and bank holidays. This service is provided completely free of charge, allowing the NHS to divert funds where they are needed most.
Our riders are a hardy bunch that operate in all but the very worst weather.
Repost – When is a Troll not a Troll?
When its a Bully.
The Internet is full of terms and names that date way back into the mists of Internet-Time, when all these sites were tree’s and the Internet Denizens roamed and grazed in peace. A Time when you could use a term like “Hacker” or “Spod” or “Newbie” and people would know exactly what it meant.
But alas, we now live in a time where the Net has been bulldozed down to make way for cheap malls, and playgrounds, The Denizens have scattered and hide in reservations trying to maintain and uphold the rich history of their land.
But keeping hold of the True meaning of Net-Speak, Terms and names is getting harder and harder as the general media keep doing poorly researched articles misusing Net-Terms. And then the newer Net-Denizens think that’s the real meaning of the terms, and Ignorance of the poorly researched articles is propagated.
Reporters, stop jumping on terms for the wow factor to increase the affect of your poor articles. Take for instance the term “Hacker” it used to mean something, a badge of respect implying a certain level of knowledge or skill, but now? All the press have been on about for the last year or so is the “Phone Hacking Scandals” Hacking? Some people dialled the voice-mail phone number and listened to recorded messages, something anyone can do because no one ever sets their password. Really you think someone who can’t use a computer but who can make a phone call is a Hacker?
Learn the meaning of the words you use….
Now we have loads and loads about “Trolls” Now the Denizens will tell you something along the lines of someone posting a comment/message/etc in the attempt to catch someone into a fight, flame war, or to simply hijack a legitimate thread/conversation. (Based on the term “Trolling”: Trolling may describe the fishing technique of slowly dragging a lure or baited hook from a moving boat”), the best way to deal with these people is to ignore them because without attention the go away, hence the oft used phrase “do not feed the trolls”
But, the popular press has decided the name Troll relates to anyone bullying others on-line. So if someone gets a death threat they are being trolled, Err. No, they are being bullied and threatened and the person doing the threats should be hit with the full force of the law for bullying or threatening behaviour!
There are calls for new laws to be made to deal with “trolls” but WHY? we already have laws against people making threats? ignore the fact its online, deal with the base crime as if the person had sent them a note with the threat. Giving the Bullies the name Troll is making it seem like a lesser crime, as if “Oh they only threatened them online”
Its like stealing a car and driving it around really fast damaging the car, we call it “Joy Riding”? that makes it sound fun and ok. It should be called “theft, vandalism, etc”
WORDS HAVE POWER
So can we please start referring to things and people for what they really are, and stop trying to mutate existing net-terms because it makes better print in a newspaper story?
They are not Trolls.
They are Cowards, Bully’s.
They are guilty of threatening behaviour.
Lets stop giving them a badge of honour. I have heard people boast “Oh I trolled X good”
Lets call them what they are, Lets hold them up to the light of day and say “you are a bully” and deal with them accordingly.
P.S.
DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS.
Reposted, because with the state that Social Media and the Internet have gotten itself into, it needs to be resaid.
Trolls are just cowardly bullies. If you find yourself being bullied online:-
Speak out! – Tell Someone – Failing that, reach out to me on any Social Media, I will happily help.
Coronatio Quadrans – “What is the Significance of Portals in Freemasonry”

Coronation Lodge No. 2927 has a quarterly Masonic Publication associated with it called Coronatio Quadrans, or CQ for short.
One part of the publication is “Question from the Master” This is where the Lodge’s Worshipful Master asks a esoteric or masonic question to the Lodge Mentor who will answer it in an article in the next edition. After the Mentor answers the question, the “Question” is thrown open to all, and anyone can try and answer it themselves anonymously. The CQ Editors will read all the submissions and pick the best which gets published in CQ.
The Question in CQ2 was “What is the Significance of Portals in Freemasonry?” The question intrigued me, especially since the Mentor’s answer was “there are no portals in Freemasonry.” I therefore decided to throw my hat into the ring and anonymously answer the question.
It turns out I won.
“What did you win?” you ask, (yes I heard you. I have explained in an old blog post, I can hear you when you speak out loud while reading this site).
Well my prize is that I get to write an article on any topic of my choice, and it will get published in the next edition of CQ.
ANYTHING!
Think of the power. I can write about anything and it will automatically be published and circulated to all the people who read CQ. Due to this power, I decided to do the only responsible and sensible thing I could. I asked Twitter (I will never call it X) to give me the topic of my article.