The following is a remembrance sent in by Archibald A. H. Crawford. Arch was raised in New York in 1964 and spent several years around the lodge taking his passion for the fraternity on a deployment to East Asia. His remembrance serves to memorialize his time there and capture the memory of his labor for […]
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The Light of Reason
A Sojourner’s post by Carlos Francisco Ortiz, Equality No. 88 and Lodge Fraternal Action No. 42 under the Grand Lodge of Chile. “Cogito ergo sum” Rene Descartes How does man think to himself and think of the universe, when you try to answer, between dogma and reason, the crucial questions of human existence? Let’s think […]
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Arkansas Masons Can Become Shriners
This landed in the email today. Arkansas Masons Can Become Shriners This landed in the email today. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Grand Master of Arkansas, Jesse D. Sexton, issued an edict on Tuesday, July 16, 2019 that recognizes Shriners International as a “Civic Organization”. The result of this decision permits Arkansas Masons, for the first […]
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The Death of Freemasonry: When Change Changes You
Changing means taking control of the future and leaning into it—steering the chaos as best possible—rather than letting the chaos of change control where Freemasonry is headed.
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The Great Work
What is the Great Work? The easiest way to define what it is is to say that The Great Work is the quest for knowledge that ends in wisdom.
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Something Lost: The Los Angeles Scottish Rite Cathedral
I spent some time last weekend visiting the Marciano Art Foundation (and gallery) in Los Angeles. It is an amazing space with near limitless potential almost in the heart of the city of angels. What makes the space relevant to Freemasons is that the space that the Foundation Galley occupies was once the jewel of […]
Continue readingIs 2b1ask1 Working?
The mechanism behind the aphorism simply implying that if someone wants to be a mason, they need to ask one. Short, simple, and to the point. The phrase encompasses the admonition that no Mason will (or can) ask someone to join or become one, because then the decision to join is solemn one—a turning point […]
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Ouroboros | Symbols and Symbolism
In this edition of Symbols and Symbolism, we look at a reading on the Ouroboros, that serpent devouring its tail as a representation of eternity and the passage of time.
Continue readingFreemasons and the New World Order
To the unassuming public, the Freemasons are a society of likeminded men who come together to donate and raise money for good and charitable causes. But is this really true? Is the government a component of an underground Masonic society whose whole organization is a plot to form a new-world order? Let’s look at the […]
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Between the Sun and Moon, A Master Mason is Born
Almost 6 months ago, on the day of the August, 2017, solar eclipse, I launched a project to publish the third book in the Symbolic Lodge series, The Master Mason. And, (almost) to the date of the January, 2018, lunar eclipse, that book went out to its backers and is available now to the public. […]
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