A short time back, we published a 4 page document from the Canadian CSIS on the threat posed to Freemasonry by Islamic extremists. Shortly after posting the paper, I recieved an email from a source who has had close dealings with the CSIS and is involved in International and Terrorist Intelligence Programs. In his email, […]
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Observations on the esoteric from author Greg Stewart (Masonic Traveler) about the fraternity of Freemasonry, its impact on civil society and contributions to the material culture.
Was Kentucky’s expulsion all it was cracked up to be?
Rhetoric or righteousness? I was reanalyzing the expulsion of Kentucky Mason John Wright, and the thought occurred to me, was the gay issue in the charges or were they part of a means to color a (still) witch hunt based on otherwise slightly promiscuous behavior. Reviewing the formal charge document, they read that the recipient […]
Continue readingKentucky expells gay mason.
No official press release has been forthcoming, but the website Kentucky.com is reporting: An openly gay Mason from Kentucky has been suspended indefinitely from the fraternity after an April 8 Masonic trial found him guilty of “un-masonic conduct,” according to a letter from the group’s Grand Lodge of Kentucky in Jefferson County. “It was tantamount […]
Continue readingLeadership
One in an ongoing series I’ve planned to look at. The ideas expressed could probably apply to all walks fo life, from your work place, to the Lodge Room. Each one of us are leaders in one way or another, and these are lessons to help us be better. In this video Four star general […]
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Theosophy and Freemasonry
I happened onto a reference in a book I just finished reading, Occult America, about Gandhi that mentioned the influence of Theosophy in his life. On a quick excursion to find the deeper connection, I happened upon a statement of Gandhi’s from his Harijan Journal about the philosophy that struck me. In the statement written […]
Continue readingThorns and roses
First the roses, the Grand Lodge of Nebraska is taking their schism by the horns and taking the dialog into the inboxes of their members no matter the “legitimate arguments and sleaze”. Download and read the Nebraska Mason. Addressing the continuing issue of who’s Grand Master now, Past Grand Master and Jurisprudence Committee member Dean […]
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The Perceived Western Crusade Against Islam
This story comes from the Canadian news website National Post in a story that went onto its website today that reads: Islamist extremists view Freemasons as the enemy: report published March 31, 2011 In the story it reports that Canadian Intelligence in 2009 issued a brief on Freemasonry and Islamist Extremists, and it paints a […]
Continue readingPrecipitating ruin and despair
I was reading through Pikes 11th degree – Prince Ameth for a paper I’m working on and ran across this passage which I liked and wanted to share. The people that does not subjugate the propensity of the wealthy to avarice, ambition, and sensuality, expel luxury from them and their families, keep down pauperism, diffuse […]
Continue readingBe All You Can Be in Occult America
I just had the pleasure of finishing Mitch Horowitz’s book Occult America and am a bit surprised at the story it tells, and some of what it doesn’t. Only recently did I come across the 2010 Bantum Books edition, (the first edition published in hardback in 2009) and it was the sub headline of the […]
Continue readingThe Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus
This originally appeared in the Masonic Traveler blog in 2008. Have YOU ever heard of the The Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus? Neither had I. But there was a story about them in the New York Times today that linked their distant and ancient past to that of Freemasonries… Well, not really, […]
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