The Grand Lodge of Alaska is the next stop on the tour of American Grand Lodges. Alaska Masonic membership: 2,053 – 2006 2,003 – 2007 gain/loss – -50 data from MSANA State population – 683,478 as of 2007 (estimated) About the Grand Lodge: On February 7, 1981, the MW Grand Lodge of F. & A.M. […]
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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.
Harm Timmerman, Composer of The Temple of Humanity
This Sunday, March 29th, we are jumping the pond again to welcome our special guest from the Netherlands composer and Producer Harm Timmerman from Free Stone Music, the creator of the Masonicly inspired CD “The Temple of Humanity“. Missed the live show? Listen to it Now! The CD is self-described as The “Music of Freemasonry” […]
Continue readingThe Grand Lodge website of Alabama.
The Grand Lodge of Alabama is the first stop on the tour of American Grand Lodges. Alabama Masonic membership:30,952 – 200629,775 – 2007gain/loss – 1,177data from MSANA State population – 4,627,851 as of 2007, About the Grand Lodge: Founded June 11, 1821, previous charters in the state had been issued by the grand Lodges of […]
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Famous or anti-famous?
I want to gush a little. I got my first piece of Anti-Masonic fan mail today, and what made it all the better, it came in a plain white envelope, wrapped in a plain piece of white notebook paper, with only a three initials, and a P.O. Box from Northern California. The intiails were J.S.W. […]
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Dover Masonic Lodge and the Kybalion
This came in as a post in the series I published on the Kybalion in the previous Masonic Traveler Blog. What was posted was an announcement to visit the website and upcoming pod cast for Dover lodge #489 under the Grand Lodge of Ohio. The pod cast is in its 8th episode, and on its […]
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Masonic Historian Margaret C. Jacob
In this episode of Masonic Central, recorded on March 15, 2009, UCLA Professor Margaret C. Jacob explors with us how she became the eminent scholar of Freemasonry that she is today. In that conversation, we look behind the veil of time to learn from her about the early origins of the craft, its present, and […]
Continue readingWhy Mormon’s build (re-build Solomon’s) Temples
There has yet to be a significant analysis from a Mormon practitioner on the links between Freemasonry and and the Latter Day Saints. I’m hoping one is soon to come, but as with any research, its a long road. Brigham Young and Joseph Smith (as well as Lorenzo Snow, John Taylor and Wilford Woodruff) not […]
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Dr. Margaret Jacob on Masonic Central
Some say that history is written by the victors. Triumphs are in fact triumphant, and losses are only momentary set backs in a progressive path to the eventual story that you read in the history books. But at times some histories run concurrently with others, and that there isn’t really a victor or vanquished, but […]
Continue readingAcademia and speculation – two sides to the same coin.
I never know where I’ll end up in my meandering on the web. At times (most times in fact) its a journey down a labyrinthine path to no where, the proverbial Alice through the looking glass, only to end up behind the mirror. But today, in only a short time, I stumbled across two sites […]
Continue readingBr. W. Kirk MacNulty
Join us for this episode from March 8, 2009, as Greg and Dean are joined W. Kirk MacNulty, who is an exceptional Freemason and author of several books on the fraternity. A longtime Freemason, MacNulty brings a special understanding of Freemasonry delving into the esoteric and deeper “mystical” underpinnings of the craft. In this conversation […]
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