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, […]

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150 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 […]

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Masonic 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, […]

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Happy 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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Those 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 […]

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