by Ezekiel M. Bey Heaven sent me here through the womb of a woman Heaven sent me here from on high Heaven sent me here through the force of my Creator The one seen on Masonic aprons, the All-seeing Eye Creations are powerful, and so Creations are Great Creations are blessings, helping craftsmen navigate As […]
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Posts by Frederic L. Milliken – Through the beehive, Fred brings inspiring, provocative, and controversial posts sure to make you think. In his posts, The Beehive is a place of sharing Brotherly Love, Affection and to approach the controversial with the motto “Damn the torpedoes, full Speed ahead!”
Masonic Expression Has Many Forms
Masonic scholarship has come a long way. With the tools, the media and the technology available today Freemasonry has evolved into a medium of communication that has heretofore never been seen in the past. Oh we had great Masonic writers, the Masters, many years ago. Most of them are still widely read today – Mackey, […]
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Masonic Organ Donor
Are you signed up to be an organ donor when you die? Maybe your eyes or your heart or your liver or your spleen can help save and/or prolong the life of another in need. Have you ever watched a Masonic Lodge slowly die? It does most things right, has good programs, no dissension yet […]
Continue readingTwo Great Moments, Two Great Weeks
First I had the opportunity last week to speak at Lyles Middle School in Lexington, Massachusetts to the classes of a Lodge Brother who teaches history at the school. I managed to talk to four periods of combined classes, my subject being the first battle of the American Revolutionary War in Lexington, Massachusetts . I […]
Continue readingI RESIGN
“Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” – James Baldwin “I resign.” Those were the words of Derek Gordon in a terse certified letter to the Grand Lodge of Arkansas. No long drawn out accusations, no reprimands, no recrimination, just “I resign.”Faced with what he felt was a rigged kangaroo […]
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Lest We Forget
Ohio Grand Master Terry W. Posey has posted on his blog some more reasons for Ohio’s decision regarding former West Virginia Grand Master Frank Haas. Let us not forget the issues in this case and become so caught up in protocol and procedure that we forget about civil and human rights, inalienable rights given to […]
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It all started with somebody who was willing to break the code of mutual support…………no matter the deed. Most Worshipful Terry W. Posey writes on his blog: “Frank Haas is a Judge in West Virginia and until several years ago was Grand Master of West Virginia. The story of his being expelled from the Grand […]
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Unjustly Accused
The Derek Gordon saga continues. The Grand Lodge of Arkansas has rescheduled Gordon’s Masonic trial but demanded he bring a copy of his military orders as proof he was performing duty for his country on the originally scheduled day. It promised Gordon that he would receive a new letter in the mail by Friday April […]
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Third Day Phylaxis Society National Convention
The third day of the Phylaxis Society Convention in Arkansas was one of much celebration and fellowship but also one of some very interesting presentations. A paper was delivered on A Black History Moment: A Phillip Randolph and the Sleeping Car Porters. Ah, the memories of those early railroad years brought back to real life in […]
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Mainstream Masonry Shooting Itself In The Foot
There are many aspects of the Derek Gordon story that deserve to be exposed and laid out on the table for all to see. There are also far reaching ramifications as to what the Grand Lodge of Arkansas is doing to American Freemasonry. As to the former, the failure of the Grand Lodge of Arkansas […]
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