It gave us the greatest of pleasure to oversee the Installation of another worthy Member of our Order as the Most Worshipful Master (MWM) of the Grand Lodge. A new Light now occupies the Chair of Osiris and Solomon.

During the ceremony, all Members of the Symbolic Lodge of Egypt who are not Installed Masters are asked respectfully to retire; the Lodge of Installation is opened, and the new Master Elect is placed ceremonially in the Chair of the Master, which we also term the Throne of the East. This is done by either the Grand Master, an Installing Master with special dispensation to perform the duty, or by the current Most Worshipful Master, who then becomes the Immediate Past Master.

The Installation is a very private and mystical ceremony, which brings the new Master Elect - who is already a Member of our mystical 4th Degree - into a new company of Master Masons with peculiar responsibilities over the preservation and development of the Symbolic Rite of Egypt. Certain Masonic and Alchemical Secrets are conveyed to them, along with the new Annual Watchword of the coming year. They are now permitted to attend the Lodge of Installed Masters, to receive a Charter to open their own Daughter Lodge after their term of office should they so choose, and to assume the rulership of the Lodge for the next year.

Once the ceremony is completed, the Lodge of Installation is closed, the ordinary Lodge is resumed, and the Members are readmitted Degree by Degree, when the name of the new MWM is declared before them, and the Annual Watchword is disseminated.

This year was very special, as the ceremony was performed by the Most Illustrious Grand Master.

Our beloved Illustrious Sister, who held the Throne so diligently for the previous year, has now become our Immediate Past Master (IPM). We look forward to her kindly Light continuing to illuminate the Lodge from the East, and bring wisdom, peace and comfort among the Brothers, Sisters and Fellows of the Order.

We are so fortunate to have such a beautiful and powerful Rite, which nourishes, strengthens and uplifts every participant therein.

T.'.F.'.E.'.