by Br. John Nagy If you’re old to Masonic Education you know that, for the most part, “average formal Grand Lodge backed” Masonic Education programs exist today as: Memorizing Degree Catechism Learning Ritual and floor work Reviewing the Digest of Law and taking exams based on it Reading Pamphlets Perusing Degree Handbooks Following Officer Manuals […]
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Two Schools of Masonic Thought: Part 1-Collectivism
Robert Frost once wrote “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both.” This opening line to his poem “The Road Not Taken” accurately describes the decision that Masons have continually had to make about how their fraternity operates. One road leads to Masonic collectivism and the other leads to […]
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A hot topic in the on-line Masonic community is lodge education. Many ideas are presented for educational subjects or how to implement educational programs. Most of this discussion is limited to Masonic topics such as Masonic symbolism or history. There is no shortage of information on these subjects available through the Internet or in hard […]
Continue readingDover 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 […]
Continue readingFurther Adventures of the Paul Revere Colonial Degree Team
So here I am sitting in the East in a two-year line of a Lodge with significant resources and a great budget. I had just taken the Paul Revere Colonial Degree Team to hometown Lexington. What to do next? Think big Fred, I thought, think big! After all that was one of the decisions that […]
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The Checkered Flooring
The mosaic pavement of the lodge is discussed in the lecture of the first degree. This is commonly described as the checkered carpet which covers the floor of the lodge. The lecture says that the mosaic pavement “is a representation of the ground floor of King Solomon’s Temple” and is “emblematic of human life, checkered […]
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