The Journalstar.com news website, out of Lincoln Nebraska, reported on November 22, 2010: “Lincoln police went to Waverly early Sunday to find a man who they say fired a handgun twice following a fight at his girlfriend’s Lincoln home. [Edward Watts was] arrested on suspicion of first-degree assault, strangulation, terroristic threats and use of a […]
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The super luminary Supermoon
Are you ready for the Supermoon? Its an interesting idea, a super close moon, and and a high astrological portent… The term comes from Richard Nolle (aka Astropro – Certified Professional Astrologer) who coined it, according to his website, in 1981. Of the event, besides a myriad of planetary calamities of floods, fires, and earthquakes, […]
Continue reading150 years of Italian Masonic unity
NPR had an interesting story about the upcoming celebration of 150 years of the Italian Constitution and the apparent dis-unity between its Northern and Southern Region. The statement was about the culminating fight in 1861 to create a liberal, unified Italy. Unified in that Italy prior to this revolution was the center occupations, revolution, and […]
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Masonic Vedanta, Freemasonry in India
A new video out from the World Exemplification of Freemasonry by Br. Dr. Guy L Beck on Freemasonry in the British Empire and the Colonial expansion of Freemasonry into India. The video WEOFM video explores the expansion of Freemasonry in the Hindu world including the notable Freemason, and Swami, Vivekananda who, while still named Narendranath […]
Continue readingMasonic Center for Youth and Families
Masonry helping the community, a subject near and dear to me especially given its taking shape in California. The Masonic Homes of California today announced the opening of the Masonic Center for Youth and Families, a not-for-profit, outpatient facility that will provide integrated psychological services to youth ages 4 to 17 struggling with behavioral, academic, […]
Continue readingHappy Pi Day
What celebration of the study of mathematics would be complete without taking a day off for pie, strike that I mean Pi? We can pick up a brief history on the numerical letter from Wikipedia which may pique the interest of some readers and its relation to the Temple of Solomon, as it reads… The […]
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The Lessons Of History
Thomas Jefferson had long desired to have the lands west of the Mississippi explored with the hopes of finding a waterway passage to the Pacific. The Lewis & Clark expedition was the brainchild and pet project of Jefferson. He plucked Meriwether Lewis from his staff and put him in charge of leading this exploration. Lewis […]
Continue readingThose creepy hyper patriotic gatherings.
Gene Weingarten from the Washington Post seems to think that only “ladies who are direct descendants of Cotton Mather, or…secret Masonic initiation rites involving men wearing aprons” sing the second stanza of the Star Spangled Banner. It would be an interesting rant to rail on the guy for deciding to use Masonry in his description […]
Continue readingMinister Louis Farrakhan’s got a job for you.
Just a few words of “wisdom” from Minister Louis Farrakhan about Freemasonry. “What is the function of the Masons and Shriners today, now that the secret that you were hiding is out? Your function is to help me build what was in the nature of Hiram…” “Master the 360 degrees of knowledge, not just the […]
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A Friday Night To Remember
It was 4:30 PM on a Friday afternoon and I had already left the office to pick up my car in the underground garage. It was good to get away a little early as Fridays can be so hectic, everybody trying to wrap up all the loose ends so that Monday morning’s challenges contained no […]
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