Harmon Weston over at the (now defunct) Blue Lite forum posted the following: Modern Freemasonry was born in an environment where the laws of Church and State overlapped significantly (and still do if you scratch them with a soft cloth). A group of free-thinkers got together in a pub and closed the door, not because […]
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History of Scandinavian Freemasonry
The evolution of Scandinavian Masonry by Dr. Andreas Önnerfors as published on the World Wide Exemplification of Freemasonry, better known as WEoFM. He is the former director of First Academic center of Freemasonry and Fraternalism at the University of Sheffield. In this lecture, Dr. Önnerfors explores the history of Scandinavian Freemasonry and the dissemination of […]
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Freemasonry’s Epic History
Any Freemason that has taken a moment to delve into the history of Freemasonry, has undoubtedly discovered a legendary history of the order. Typically these histories will include an account of the fraternity as carried down from Adam through the building of King Solomon’s Temple and practiced by Pythagoras. For many Freemasons, these histories are […]
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Be 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 […]
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Bryce American History Quiz
And the results are in…Just how well do we know our own country?
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Glenn Beck – The Illuminati is going to off him…
Chris Hodapp over on Freemasons for Dummies does a terrific job of capturing the exchange of Glenn Beck and David Barton, from the Wallbuilders ministry organization, on the Fox News Channel in an exchange over the Founding Fathers and Freemasonry. As Br. Chris captures the exchange perfectly, there seemed to be more misinformation given than […]
Continue readingOccult Forces at the Heart of Freemasonry
Occult Forces at the heart of Freemasonry is an English translation of the film titled Forces Occultes – Au Coeur De La Franc-Maconnerie. The film’s full title is Occult Forces – The mysteries of Freemasonry and was released in French theaters in 1943. None of what’s in this video could possibly be real, its French […]
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The Boy Scouts of America in three parts:Part I – Being a Boy Scout | Part II – Masonic Origins? | Part III – Organization Having looked at the past 100 years of the Boy Scouts, it is important to spend some time on their organization so as to put into perspective how it operates […]
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The Boy Scouts of America in three parts:Part I – Being a Boy Scout | Part II – Origins | Part III – Organization There are many stories about how the Boy Scouts came into existence: Unknown Scouts on foggy London streets, clubs organized for wayward boys, or alternative organizations to an increasingly urbanized way […]
Continue readingAiring Dirty Laundry
One of my forte’s as a writer and a Mason is to be able to bring up touchy subjects such as Prince Hall recognition, alcohol in the Lodge, Grand Lodge government, etc. This has garnered me a lot of recognition, mostly positive, but there are some Brothers who object to my airing our dirty laundry […]
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