I will say that you will all know what an eavesdropper is by now, so I won’t spend any time on this, let’s just concentrate on the word cowan for this discussion. From the affair of Jephthah, an Ephraimite was termed a cowan. Cowan comes from the Hebrew and Egyptian word, cohen which was the […]
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Answer To Puzzler #3 and the Presentation of Puzzler #4
1 Kings 6:7 – In building the temple, only blocks dressed at the quarry were used, and no hammer, chisel or any other iron tool was heard at the temple site while it was being built. Some metallic substance is demanded after we were taught to wear our clothes, but we had not…(I won’t go into […]
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The origin of the word is a Greek translation of Latin and it does reference exactly what you pointed out (that house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens). First degree is also right, but wherein does the answer lie my brother? Acheiropoieta also called “Icons Not Made by Hand” are a particular kind of icon […]
Continue readingMeeting in the Bollywood Sanctum Sanctorum!
Is it me, or does anyone else out there wish some of the meetings were conducted like this? Is guess its how they do it in Jorhat, in the Indian state of Assam. Freemasons Kaun Hai Jorhat Part I Part II. Bollywood GhostHunters – so I appologize in advance for the audio – my guess, […]
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Answer To Puzzler #1 and the Presentation Of Puzzler #2
Here is the answer to the previous puzzler. The Seven Liberal Arts were divided into the Trivium (“the three roads”) and the Quadrivium (“the four roads”). The Trivium (Masonically alludes to the three Principal Moral Virtues) and consists of: Grammar–Teaches a man the ability to speak and write truly Rhetoric— Teaches a man to speak fairly […]
Continue readingMasonic Trivia: Puzzle Number One
My Lodge, Pride of Mt. Pisgah #135, MWPHGLTX, is a small, low budget Lodge operating in simple surroundings. But don’t let that fool you. Serious and deep study of Masonry is going on among its members. Not only does Mt. Pisgah spend a great deal of time and effort in instructing its candidates but it […]
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An 86 Year Old Book Review
Looking for something to read, I went back into my library and pulled out a copy of The Autobiography of Mark Twain which I have had since High School. I’ve always been an admirer of Samuel Clemens’ work, but I have to admit I balked at taking his autobiography seriously years ago. This time though, I […]
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Glenn Beck – The Illuminati is going to off him…
Chris Hodapp over on Freemasons for Dummies does a terrific job of capturing the exchange of Glenn Beck and David Barton, from the Wallbuilders ministry organization, on the Fox News Channel in an exchange over the Founding Fathers and Freemasonry. As Br. Chris captures the exchange perfectly, there seemed to be more misinformation given than […]
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Loss Of Tax Exempt Status Would Hurt American Freemasonry
The United States is still in the middle of the longest and deepest recession since the Depression of 1929. As unemployment seems to be stuck at close to 10% government tax revenues are down everywhere. The Federal government has borrowed some serious money from China. Some state governments are in serious trouble, teetering on the […]
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Occult Forces at the Heart of Freemasonry
Occult Forces at the heart of Freemasonry is an English translation of the film titled Forces Occultes – Au Coeur De La Franc-Maconnerie. The film’s full title is Occult Forces – The mysteries of Freemasonry and was released in French theaters in 1943. None of what’s in this video could possibly be real, its French […]
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