This article comes from RWB Dean Behrens, Senior Grand Warden for the Grand Lodge of South Dakota. The article originally appeared in the Grand Lodge of South Dakota’s publication The Masonic Messenger. You can visit the Grand Lodge’s website here. What will be your legacy? Is it too soon, or too late, for any one […]
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My Reply To Tim Bryce on How Does Freemasonry Add Value To Our Lives
This is in Reply to Tim Bryce’s How Does Freemasonry Add Value To Our Lives. I second everything you said, Brother Tim. But let me add one thing. Being with a Freemason gives me a feeling of automatically, whether we have ever met or not, of being in the presence of a person I can trust. […]
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Conspiracies’ R Us Sunday on Masonic Central!
Is it the Illuminati? What about Skull and Bones? I’ve heard about those Bilderbergs, and what’s up with the owl on the dollar bill? Its that Bohemian Grove isn’t it? Its those Freemasons isn’t it? This Sunday, we are going to get to the bottom of all those conspiracy theories, as only the Freemason’s know […]
Continue readingPrince Hall Memorial
Cambridge, Massachusetts abutting Boston is the place where a monument or memorial will be erected to the memory of Prince Hall. The memorial will be placed on the historic Cambridge “Common” or Green near the memorial there to George Washington. The Cambridge Common is the place where George Washington first formed the Continental Army. Groundbreaking […]
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How Does Freemasonry Add Value to Our Lives?
Undoubtedly, the most visible benefit associated with Freemasonry is the friendship, morality, and Brotherly Love we learn simply by attending Lodge and interacting with the members. It is not unusual for Freemasons to develop lifelong friendships and bonds with other Masons. This should not be surprising as the fraternity represents a society consisting of men […]
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“Boy, am I perplexed!” said the young Brother as he sat down on the bench outside of the lodge building. Ferris Thompson, a Past Master who spent most of his time mentoring his younger Brethren was sitting on the bench contently puffing his bent bulldog pipe. “What has you confused? Not that I’m promising that […]
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Human Dignity and Freemasonry Nowadays
By Carlos Antonio Martinez, Jr., J.D., PH.D., M.A., 33º The human being represents a cosmic reality, a phenomenon of universal value with physical structure and psychological characteristics. The self-recognition of said value and our recognition of the same in others is what we call Human Dignity. In Latin, the word dignitas meant: appreciation or valuation. […]
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Is CoMasonry The Antidote? – Part 3
By Carlos Antonio Martinez, Jr., J.D., PH.D., M.A., 33º Read – Is CoMasonry the Antidote part 1 Read – Is CoMasonry the Antidote part 2 The pre-revolutionary condition and philosophy of illustration of the era, propitiated the strengthening of the Principle of Equality between a man and a woman, and so it came to pass that both genders became […]
Continue readingAre We Killing Each Other Off?
Are we killing each other off? Are we so intent upon the proper form, the correct procedure, the purity of the Craft, the monopoly of the fraternity disallowing any competition, that we are turning possible members off and losing good candidates? Here is an essay by a long time Brother we affectionately call Ole Blake. […]
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Is CoMasonry the Antidote – Part 2
By Carlos Antonio Martinez, Jr., J.D., PH.D., M.A., 33º Read – Is CoMasonry the Antidote part 1 Read – Is CoMasonry the Antidote part 3 SPECULATIVE ERA 1. Alleged “Official Birth” in England Symbolic or “Speculative Masonry” began to gradually develop during the XVI and XVII in Europe, particularly – though not exclusively – in the kingdoms of England […]
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