Freemason Information
Freemasonry is a post-collegiate mostly-all male fraternity dedicated to the social development of the member to form a broader sense of the self and their community.
Numerous monuments of antiquity attest the long-established usage of leading captives before their conquerors or judges by means of cords attached to various parts of the body. This was a mark of degradation for the victim and contributed to the exultation of the victor. Assyrian, Babylonian, Egyptian, and other sculptures of great age exhibit long […]
Man is unable to comprehend eternity in any other sense than that of a circle. The greatest god of all the old pantheons always represented Time, and he was the father of all the other gods. He carried in his hand a straight line and a circle. The first had beginning and end, the second […]
It is quite possible for the hero of a popular legend to be at once real and unreal. The real character will be or has been the indistinct historical personage about whom, when sober sense is allowed to assert itself over sentimental enthusiasm, we must admit we know little or nothing based upon profane history […]
In our Fellowcraft degree is embodied far more particular reference to the subject of Israel’s great and world-famous Temple than in either the preceding or the following degrees. Indeed, upon strict analysis, the F. C. degree serves as little more than a fitting prelude and climax to the soul-stirring imagery of the M. C. lecture, […]
No term throughout the entire range of Masonic symbolism so completely clenches the connection between Freemasonry and the Ancient Mysteries as this most important link. The number nine is a part of the great harmony of the universe, and as such was recognized longer ago than man has history. A study of the peculiarities of this […]
The next step beyond that of embodying the sacred proportions in architecture and art was to contrive their vocal expression. The ancient number-letter system of the Orient is often difficult for the Masonic student to understand; but when one looks into it carefully it is comparatively simple. In the days before the invention of symbols […]
There is no place in Masonry for dogmatic controversy affecting the current convictions of brethren of the craft. In its highest contemplation Freemasonry solely regards and addresses itself to the “Great Architect of the Universe,” respecting the Names under which this Unique Identity is apostrophized in every clime, by every race, and by every school […]
The so-called “Hermetic Philosophy” is much quoted by the older writers on the subject of Masonry, and one encounters references to it in the works of the greatest of them all, the venerable Albert Pike. Bro. Pike says of the reputed founder of the so-called Hermetic School, from Morals and Dogma, XXIII degree – Chief of […]
This original philosophy is really the foundation of what Theosophists call the “Secret Doctrine,” and the initiatory ceremonies by which men were inducted into its enlightening presence were what we now call the “Ancient Mysteries,” many of the symbols of which still survive in the Masonic Lodge. The advancement of understanding in these “Secret Doctrines” […]
The writer is a firm believes in the extreme antiquity of the speculative philosophy now known to the world as Freemasonry. He credits it with a continuous and unbroken existence extending in one form or another over a period of at least 6,000 years. All the groundwork connecting the mid-period history of Freemasonry with the […]