From NPR’s Marketplace News – Researchers from the University of Manchester have distilled the components of a perfect handshake down to a science, literally, and it looks like: PH = √(e2 + ve2)(d2) + (cg + dr)2 + p{(4< s >2)(4< p >2)}2 + (vi + t + te)2 + {(4< c >2 )(4< du […]
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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.
So What? The Dynamic of Masonic Membership.
The following was originally published in 2007. It is one of several essays in the book Masonic Traveler, where you can find a more refined and extended version of this missive. Since this original publication in 2007, the dialog increased only to taper off again to a quiet whisper, if heard anywhere at all. In […]
Continue readingRick Ross’s Free Mason = Fraternal Shark Jump?
The new song from Rick Ross featuring Jay-Z off the Teflon Don Album. I’ll let the song and lyrics speak for themselves. Free Mason. I get that Free masonry is deep in the pocket of material culture, and that it has a variety of meanings all around, but rapper Rick Ross has adapted Freemasonry’s other […]
Continue readingBundled off with Freemasons-Athiests & Masons to Summit in Brussels
From the EU Observer: Brussels is to hold an EU summit with atheists and Freemasons in the autumn, inviting them to a political dialogue parallel to the annual summit the bloc holds with Europe’s religious leaders. It seems that in the push to make religious and non religious policy balance, following a meeting of Catholic, […]
Continue readingMasons give $100,000 to UCO Foundation
More in the news on the re-emirgance of Masonry and academia: “The University of Central Oklahoma Foundation received a $100,000 gift July 14 from The Masonic Fraternity of Oklahoma. The gift will establish the Masonic Endowment for Transformative Learning, which will support a project that fosters transformative learning experiences for Central students, helping them become […]
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Masonic Education vs. Practicing Freemasonry
I’ve been in recent mental debate over the place of Freemasonry in academia (more here) and the practice of Freemasonry in the real world. More specifically, how Masonry is perceived in the academic sphere in a past and present light, vs. the contemporary practice of Freemasonry itself, what the fraternity is doing as a whole […]
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Rosewood Masonic Lodge Discovered
The events and depiction of the 1997 film Rosewood are cinematic but unlike most of what Hollywood produces, the events that fateful town actually happened. Recently, the remains of the historic Rosewood Masonic lodge has been discovered amidst items during exploratory dig at site of 1923 massacre. Marvin Dunn, a retired Florida International University professor […]
Continue readingWhen Masonry and Satanism Crossed Paths
The Gate – There’s a Passageway – A Gate Behind Which the Demons Wait to Take Back What Was Once Theirs. Stepping past the Crowley references and guys wearing funny robes and hats, at some point the idea of Freemasonry and Satanism came together so as to ignite the idea that the fraternity is sinisterly […]
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Vae Victis-Woe to the Vanquished Sun
Vae Victis-Woe to the Vanquished Sun Osiris, the beaten and dismembered sun god of Egypt,husband and sister to Isis, father of Horus, floats nightly in dark tabernacles on the Nile and Egyptian Lakes until morning comes to renew and restore his place in the sky. Aten, the eye of heaven, the solar disc of the […]
Continue readingThe Repression of Freemasonry in Spain
If you happen to be near the Iberian Peninsula, this sounds like an excellent event to attend. From the Gibraltar Chronicle (from the Wayback Archive)… Talks on the history of Freemasonry in Spain will be held at the John Mackintosh Hall on 28th June at 7pm. The talks will be delivered by Professor Dr. Jose Antonio […]
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