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Fortunately, a very helpful Brother has been updating his own website list of Masonic jurisdictions worldwide and their official reactions and announcements concerning COVID 19. To get a sense of what other Masonic jurisdictions are advising their members, check the Forthright website at: Freemasonry and COVID-19 Updates HERE.The site's author has asked on Reddit and elsewhere to be FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: UPDATED: IRONY AT ITS MOST IRONIC-EST Christopher L. Hodapp is the author of Freemasons For Dummies, the worldwide, best-selling introduction to the Masonic fraternity; Solomon's Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C. ; and Deciphering the Lost Symbol. His most recent book, Heritage Endures, was published in January 2018. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS DITCH DEGREES The Knights of Columbus is a voluntary men's fraternal group for Catholics, and was founded in 1885 by Father Michael McGivney, a young priest serving at St. Mary Church in New Haven, Connecticut. This was during the Golden Age of Fraternalism when membership in so-called "secret societies" was in full flower and explosive expansion. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: WOODMEN OF THE WORLD Christopher L. Hodapp is the author of Freemasons For Dummies, the worldwide, best-selling introduction to the Masonic fraternity; Solomon's Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C. ; and Deciphering the Lost Symbol. His most recent book, Heritage Endures, was published in January 2018. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: ANOTHER ONE LOST: TROY, OHIO The unique 1907 Masonic Temple of Franklin Lodge No. 14 in Troy, Ohio has just been sold to unspecified buyers for $670,000. The historic building was constructed in 1907 by the Troy Franklin Lodge. According to Purke, early indications are that the Masonic Temple building, which is listed on the National Registry of Historic Buildings, willbe
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: NBC'S STREAMER PEACOCK ORDERS 'DANAUTHOR:CHRISTOPHER HODAPP
by Christopher Hodapp. PeacockTV, NBC's new subscription streaming TV service, has announced that they have ordered the TV pilot based on Dan Brown's Masonic-themed thriller, The Lost Symbol, to be picked up as a continuing series, to be entitled Dan Brown's Langdon. The pilot was initially planned to air on the NBC broadcast network, but now the series will be a flagship show for the FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: A TALE OF TWO MASONIC BUILDINGS A Tale of Two Masonic Buildings. The unfortunate loss of our Masonic buildings continues unabated. The latest fatality of our loss in membership is the Scottish Rite Valley of Moline, Illinois. The Valley was the last in Illinois to be chartered by the NMJ, between 1924 and 1927. Built and furnished for $450,000, the Cathedral was dedicatedMay
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: MARCH 6, 1775: PRINCE HALL MADE A Castle Williams Island, now Ft. Independence, in Boston Harbor, the site of Prince Hall's degrees in Masonry. "Negro Freemasonry" predates the Declaration of Independence in this country. On March 6, 1775, Prince Hall, along with fourteen free blacks from in or around Boston, Massachusetts, were raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason in FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: GUNS IN LODGE: SOUTH CAROLINA'S EDICT Guns In Lodge: South Carolina's Edict. On March 8th, 2004, a newly raised Freemason named William James was shot and killed during a hazing incident that went horribly wrong at South Side Lodge No. 493 in Patchogue, New York. The lodge had its own social group, The Fellow Craft Club, and they had come up with their own unauthorized ritualfor
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIESATOMQUILL & SWORD 357SEPTEMBERSPAINMAGPIE MASON Christopher L. Hodapp is the author of Freemasons For Dummies, the worldwide, best-selling introduction to the Masonic fraternity; Solomon's Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C. ; and Deciphering the Lost Symbol. His most recent book, Heritage Endures, was published in January 2018. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: CORONAVIRUS WARNINGS ANDAUTHOR: CHRISTOPHERHODAPP
Fortunately, a very helpful Brother has been updating his own website list of Masonic jurisdictions worldwide and their official reactions and announcements concerning COVID 19. To get a sense of what other Masonic jurisdictions are advising their members, check the Forthright website at: Freemasonry and COVID-19 Updates HERE.The site's author has asked on Reddit and elsewhere to be FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: UPDATED: IRONY AT ITS MOST IRONIC-EST Christopher L. Hodapp is the author of Freemasons For Dummies, the worldwide, best-selling introduction to the Masonic fraternity; Solomon's Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C. ; and Deciphering the Lost Symbol. His most recent book, Heritage Endures, was published in January 2018. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS DITCH DEGREES The Knights of Columbus is a voluntary men's fraternal group for Catholics, and was founded in 1885 by Father Michael McGivney, a young priest serving at St. Mary Church in New Haven, Connecticut. This was during the Golden Age of Fraternalism when membership in so-called "secret societies" was in full flower and explosive expansion. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: WOODMEN OF THE WORLD Christopher L. Hodapp is the author of Freemasons For Dummies, the worldwide, best-selling introduction to the Masonic fraternity; Solomon's Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C. ; and Deciphering the Lost Symbol. His most recent book, Heritage Endures, was published in January 2018. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: ANOTHER ONE LOST: TROY, OHIO The unique 1907 Masonic Temple of Franklin Lodge No. 14 in Troy, Ohio has just been sold to unspecified buyers for $670,000. The historic building was constructed in 1907 by the Troy Franklin Lodge. According to Purke, early indications are that the Masonic Temple building, which is listed on the National Registry of Historic Buildings, willbe
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: NBC'S STREAMER PEACOCK ORDERS 'DANAUTHOR:CHRISTOPHER HODAPP
by Christopher Hodapp. PeacockTV, NBC's new subscription streaming TV service, has announced that they have ordered the TV pilot based on Dan Brown's Masonic-themed thriller, The Lost Symbol, to be picked up as a continuing series, to be entitled Dan Brown's Langdon. The pilot was initially planned to air on the NBC broadcast network, but now the series will be a flagship show for the FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: A TALE OF TWO MASONIC BUILDINGS A Tale of Two Masonic Buildings. The unfortunate loss of our Masonic buildings continues unabated. The latest fatality of our loss in membership is the Scottish Rite Valley of Moline, Illinois. The Valley was the last in Illinois to be chartered by the NMJ, between 1924 and 1927. Built and furnished for $450,000, the Cathedral was dedicatedMay
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: MARCH 6, 1775: PRINCE HALL MADE A Castle Williams Island, now Ft. Independence, in Boston Harbor, the site of Prince Hall's degrees in Masonry. "Negro Freemasonry" predates the Declaration of Independence in this country. On March 6, 1775, Prince Hall, along with fourteen free blacks from in or around Boston, Massachusetts, were raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason in FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: GUNS IN LODGE: SOUTH CAROLINA'S EDICT Guns In Lodge: South Carolina's Edict. On March 8th, 2004, a newly raised Freemason named William James was shot and killed during a hazing incident that went horribly wrong at South Side Lodge No. 493 in Patchogue, New York. The lodge had its own social group, The Fellow Craft Club, and they had come up with their own unauthorized ritualfor
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: IDEAS FOR WORSHIPFUL MASTERS Here is the original plan that we came up with: 1. ALL Stated Meetings are held as Table Lodges in the dining room. Open, set the lodge at ease, go get your dinner, and hash out upcoming business and decide a plan of action over dessert. Then, go FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: UGLE LEADS NIGHTLY NINE O'CLOCK The "Nine O'Clock Toast" is "a tradition within Freemasonry that has been observed for many hundreds of years," Dr. David Staples, the CEO and Grand Secretary of the United Grand Lodge of England (UGLE) told Newsweek on Monday. From modern-day meetings at the pub to gatherings convened at the height of two world wars, the tradition, he said FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: THOSE NOTORIOUS FIRST THREE He is currently the Worshipful Master of the Dwight L. Smith Lodge of Research U.D. in Indiana. Chris is a 33° Mason in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite (NMJ), Indianapolis Valley. He is a Past Sovereign Master of Imhotep Council No. 434 of the Allied Masonic Degrees. He is a founding member of Levant Preceptory, a medievalKnights Templar
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: 'THE PLOT THICKENS' IN THE GL OF The charges brought against Smith were for authorizing Zoom meetings for the Scottish Rite Valleys throughout the state in his role as their SGIG for the Scottish Rite Southern Jurisdiction. Now, the plot, as they say in cheap potboilers, thickens. The Grand Lodge of South Carolina will be holding its annual communication this week on April FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: MORE ANTICS OUT OF ARKANSAS UPDATE 9/5/2016 Just as a point of reference, the Grand Lodge of Arkansas plummeted from 12,026 members to 9,078 between the reported years of 2014 and 2015.A loss of just shy of 1/4 of its membership in one year. Moreover, between the 13 years of 2002 through 2015, the average loss of membership across the board among all U.S. grandlodges is 32.8%.
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: HOLLYWOOD'S MOST UNUSUAL MASONIC … Christopher L. Hodapp is the author of Freemasons For Dummies, the worldwide, best-selling introduction to the Masonic fraternity; Solomon's Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C.; and Deciphering the Lost Symbol.His most recent book, Heritage Endures, was published in January 2018. Since 2009 he has been on the Board of the Masonic Library & FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: UPDATED: GRAND MASTER OF FLORIDA MW John Elias Karroum, the sitting Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Florida F&AM, passed away on Friday night, after collapsing at their Annual Communication last week. It was under Karroum's leadership in 2018-19 that Florida restored fraternal relations with Cuba, and after almost fifteen years of attempts, finally achieved joint FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: THE PENTAGRAM: MASONIC? SATANIC Freemasons, in point of fact, do not venerate or worship ANY symbols. Symbolism is primarily used in Freemasonry as a memory device or an allegory to teach various moral lessons. The inverted pentagram has never appeared as a part of regular, recognized Masonic ritual orsymbolism.
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: ALPHONSE MUCHA, ARTIST AND FREEMASON Mucha passed away on July 14, 1939. In open defiance of the Nazi ban on public assemblies, over 100,000 Czechs attended his funeral, and he was eulogized in speeches given by his fellow anti-fascists. H/T Adam Kendall. Posted by Christopher Hodapp at Friday, August 05, 2016. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: MAJOR REBELLION WITHIN THE The French magazine L'Express is reporting a major dispute within the Grande Loge Nationale Francaise, the French grand lodge most recognized outside of its borders.My rather free translation is below, or read the original here. Freemasons Still in Rebellion - by FrancoisKoch
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIESATOMQUILL & SWORD 357SEPTEMBERSPAINMAGPIE MASON Christopher L. Hodapp is the author of Freemasons For Dummies, the worldwide, best-selling introduction to the Masonic fraternity; Solomon's Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C. ; and Deciphering the Lost Symbol. His most recent book, Heritage Endures, was published in January 2018. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: CORONAVIRUS WARNINGS ANDAUTHOR: CHRISTOPHERHODAPP
Fortunately, a very helpful Brother has been updating his own website list of Masonic jurisdictions worldwide and their official reactions and announcements concerning COVID 19. To get a sense of what other Masonic jurisdictions are advising their members, check the Forthright website at: Freemasonry and COVID-19 Updates HERE.The site's author has asked on Reddit and elsewhere to be FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: UPDATED: IRONY AT ITS MOST IRONIC-EST Christopher L. Hodapp is the author of Freemasons For Dummies, the worldwide, best-selling introduction to the Masonic fraternity; Solomon's Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C. ; and Deciphering the Lost Symbol. His most recent book, Heritage Endures, was published in January 2018. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS DITCH DEGREES The Knights of Columbus is a voluntary men's fraternal group for Catholics, and was founded in 1885 by Father Michael McGivney, a young priest serving at St. Mary Church in New Haven, Connecticut. This was during the Golden Age of Fraternalism when membership in so-called "secret societies" was in full flower and explosive expansion. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: WOODMEN OF THE WORLD Christopher L. Hodapp is the author of Freemasons For Dummies, the worldwide, best-selling introduction to the Masonic fraternity; Solomon's Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C. ; and Deciphering the Lost Symbol. His most recent book, Heritage Endures, was published in January 2018. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: ANOTHER ONE LOST: TROY, OHIO The unique 1907 Masonic Temple of Franklin Lodge No. 14 in Troy, Ohio has just been sold to unspecified buyers for $670,000. The historic building was constructed in 1907 by the Troy Franklin Lodge. According to Purke, early indications are that the Masonic Temple building, which is listed on the National Registry of Historic Buildings, willbe
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: NBC'S STREAMER PEACOCK ORDERS 'DANAUTHOR:CHRISTOPHER HODAPP
by Christopher Hodapp. PeacockTV, NBC's new subscription streaming TV service, has announced that they have ordered the TV pilot based on Dan Brown's Masonic-themed thriller, The Lost Symbol, to be picked up as a continuing series, to be entitled Dan Brown's Langdon. The pilot was initially planned to air on the NBC broadcast network, but now the series will be a flagship show for the FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: A TALE OF TWO MASONIC BUILDINGS A Tale of Two Masonic Buildings. The unfortunate loss of our Masonic buildings continues unabated. The latest fatality of our loss in membership is the Scottish Rite Valley of Moline, Illinois. The Valley was the last in Illinois to be chartered by the NMJ, between 1924 and 1927. Built and furnished for $450,000, the Cathedral was dedicatedMay
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: MARCH 6, 1775: PRINCE HALL MADE A Castle Williams Island, now Ft. Independence, in Boston Harbor, the site of Prince Hall's degrees in Masonry. "Negro Freemasonry" predates the Declaration of Independence in this country. On March 6, 1775, Prince Hall, along with fourteen free blacks from in or around Boston, Massachusetts, were raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason in FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: GUNS IN LODGE: SOUTH CAROLINA'S EDICT Guns In Lodge: South Carolina's Edict. On March 8th, 2004, a newly raised Freemason named William James was shot and killed during a hazing incident that went horribly wrong at South Side Lodge No. 493 in Patchogue, New York. The lodge had its own social group, The Fellow Craft Club, and they had come up with their own unauthorized ritualfor
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIESATOMQUILL & SWORD 357SEPTEMBERSPAINMAGPIE MASON Christopher L. Hodapp is the author of Freemasons For Dummies, the worldwide, best-selling introduction to the Masonic fraternity; Solomon's Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C. ; and Deciphering the Lost Symbol. His most recent book, Heritage Endures, was published in January 2018. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: CORONAVIRUS WARNINGS ANDAUTHOR: CHRISTOPHERHODAPP
Fortunately, a very helpful Brother has been updating his own website list of Masonic jurisdictions worldwide and their official reactions and announcements concerning COVID 19. To get a sense of what other Masonic jurisdictions are advising their members, check the Forthright website at: Freemasonry and COVID-19 Updates HERE.The site's author has asked on Reddit and elsewhere to be FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: UPDATED: IRONY AT ITS MOST IRONIC-EST Christopher L. Hodapp is the author of Freemasons For Dummies, the worldwide, best-selling introduction to the Masonic fraternity; Solomon's Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C. ; and Deciphering the Lost Symbol. His most recent book, Heritage Endures, was published in January 2018. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS DITCH DEGREES The Knights of Columbus is a voluntary men's fraternal group for Catholics, and was founded in 1885 by Father Michael McGivney, a young priest serving at St. Mary Church in New Haven, Connecticut. This was during the Golden Age of Fraternalism when membership in so-called "secret societies" was in full flower and explosive expansion. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: WOODMEN OF THE WORLD Christopher L. Hodapp is the author of Freemasons For Dummies, the worldwide, best-selling introduction to the Masonic fraternity; Solomon's Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C. ; and Deciphering the Lost Symbol. His most recent book, Heritage Endures, was published in January 2018. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: ANOTHER ONE LOST: TROY, OHIO The unique 1907 Masonic Temple of Franklin Lodge No. 14 in Troy, Ohio has just been sold to unspecified buyers for $670,000. The historic building was constructed in 1907 by the Troy Franklin Lodge. According to Purke, early indications are that the Masonic Temple building, which is listed on the National Registry of Historic Buildings, willbe
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: NBC'S STREAMER PEACOCK ORDERS 'DANAUTHOR:CHRISTOPHER HODAPP
by Christopher Hodapp. PeacockTV, NBC's new subscription streaming TV service, has announced that they have ordered the TV pilot based on Dan Brown's Masonic-themed thriller, The Lost Symbol, to be picked up as a continuing series, to be entitled Dan Brown's Langdon. The pilot was initially planned to air on the NBC broadcast network, but now the series will be a flagship show for the FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: A TALE OF TWO MASONIC BUILDINGS A Tale of Two Masonic Buildings. The unfortunate loss of our Masonic buildings continues unabated. The latest fatality of our loss in membership is the Scottish Rite Valley of Moline, Illinois. The Valley was the last in Illinois to be chartered by the NMJ, between 1924 and 1927. Built and furnished for $450,000, the Cathedral was dedicatedMay
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: MARCH 6, 1775: PRINCE HALL MADE A Castle Williams Island, now Ft. Independence, in Boston Harbor, the site of Prince Hall's degrees in Masonry. "Negro Freemasonry" predates the Declaration of Independence in this country. On March 6, 1775, Prince Hall, along with fourteen free blacks from in or around Boston, Massachusetts, were raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason in FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: GUNS IN LODGE: SOUTH CAROLINA'S EDICT Guns In Lodge: South Carolina's Edict. On March 8th, 2004, a newly raised Freemason named William James was shot and killed during a hazing incident that went horribly wrong at South Side Lodge No. 493 in Patchogue, New York. The lodge had its own social group, The Fellow Craft Club, and they had come up with their own unauthorized ritualfor
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: IDEAS FOR WORSHIPFUL MASTERS Here is the original plan that we came up with: 1. ALL Stated Meetings are held as Table Lodges in the dining room. Open, set the lodge at ease, go get your dinner, and hash out upcoming business and decide a plan of action over dessert. Then, go FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: UGLE LEADS NIGHTLY NINE O'CLOCK The "Nine O'Clock Toast" is "a tradition within Freemasonry that has been observed for many hundreds of years," Dr. David Staples, the CEO and Grand Secretary of the United Grand Lodge of England (UGLE) told Newsweek on Monday. From modern-day meetings at the pub to gatherings convened at the height of two world wars, the tradition, he said FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: THOSE NOTORIOUS FIRST THREE He is currently the Worshipful Master of the Dwight L. Smith Lodge of Research U.D. in Indiana. Chris is a 33° Mason in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite (NMJ), Indianapolis Valley. He is a Past Sovereign Master of Imhotep Council No. 434 of the Allied Masonic Degrees. He is a founding member of Levant Preceptory, a medievalKnights Templar
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: 'THE PLOT THICKENS' IN THE GL OF The charges brought against Smith were for authorizing Zoom meetings for the Scottish Rite Valleys throughout the state in his role as their SGIG for the Scottish Rite Southern Jurisdiction. Now, the plot, as they say in cheap potboilers, thickens. The Grand Lodge of South Carolina will be holding its annual communication this week on April FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: MORE ANTICS OUT OF ARKANSAS UPDATE 9/5/2016 Just as a point of reference, the Grand Lodge of Arkansas plummeted from 12,026 members to 9,078 between the reported years of 2014 and 2015.A loss of just shy of 1/4 of its membership in one year. Moreover, between the 13 years of 2002 through 2015, the average loss of membership across the board among all U.S. grandlodges is 32.8%.
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: SHRINERS HOSPITALS REBRANDING AS Bill Hosler over on the On The Square blog is reporting today that ' Shriners Hospitals for Children' has just announced that they are uniformly rebranding their network of 22 hospitals as 'Shriners Children's.' The name change is intended to unify and do away with a handful of different facility and corporate entity names of several Shriners children's hospitals and programs throughout North FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: THE PENTAGRAM: MASONIC? SATANIC Freemasons, in point of fact, do not venerate or worship ANY symbols. Symbolism is primarily used in Freemasonry as a memory device or an allegory to teach various moral lessons. The inverted pentagram has never appeared as a part of regular, recognized Masonic ritual orsymbolism.
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: HOLLYWOOD'S MOST UNUSUAL MASONIC … Christopher L. Hodapp is the author of Freemasons For Dummies, the worldwide, best-selling introduction to the Masonic fraternity; Solomon's Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C.; and Deciphering the Lost Symbol.His most recent book, Heritage Endures, was published in January 2018. Since 2009 he has been on the Board of the Masonic Library & FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: ALPHONSE MUCHA, ARTIST AND FREEMASON Mucha passed away on July 14, 1939. In open defiance of the Nazi ban on public assemblies, over 100,000 Czechs attended his funeral, and he was eulogized in speeches given by his fellow anti-fascists. H/T Adam Kendall. Posted by Christopher Hodapp at Friday, August 05, 2016. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: MAJOR REBELLION WITHIN THE Freemasons Still in Rebellion - by Francois Koch. L'Express. Thursday, March 25, 2010. The dispute never ends at the GLNF (National Grand Lodge of France). On Thursday, more than a thousand delegates from lodges made the trip to Paris to show their discontent. The "Rebels of December 4," whose dispute is spreading beyond Paris and Tours, have FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIESATOMQUILL & SWORD 357SEPTEMBERSPAINMAGPIE MASON Christopher L. Hodapp is the author of Freemasons For Dummies, the worldwide, best-selling introduction to the Masonic fraternity; Solomon's Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C. ; and Deciphering the Lost Symbol. His most recent book, Heritage Endures, was published in January 2018. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: CORONAVIRUS WARNINGS ANDAUTHOR: CHRISTOPHERHODAPP
Fortunately, a very helpful Brother has been updating his own website list of Masonic jurisdictions worldwide and their official reactions and announcements concerning COVID 19. To get a sense of what other Masonic jurisdictions are advising their members, check the Forthright website at: Freemasonry and COVID-19 Updates HERE.The site's author has asked on Reddit and elsewhere to be FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: UPDATED: IRONY AT ITS MOST IRONIC-EST Christopher L. Hodapp is the author of Freemasons For Dummies, the worldwide, best-selling introduction to the Masonic fraternity; Solomon's Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C. ; and Deciphering the Lost Symbol. His most recent book, Heritage Endures, was published in January 2018. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS DITCH DEGREES The Knights of Columbus is a voluntary men's fraternal group for Catholics, and was founded in 1885 by Father Michael McGivney, a young priest serving at St. Mary Church in New Haven, Connecticut. This was during the Golden Age of Fraternalism when membership in so-called "secret societies" was in full flower and explosive expansion. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: WOODMEN OF THE WORLD Christopher L. Hodapp is the author of Freemasons For Dummies, the worldwide, best-selling introduction to the Masonic fraternity; Solomon's Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C. ; and Deciphering the Lost Symbol. His most recent book, Heritage Endures, was published in January 2018. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: ANOTHER ONE LOST: TROY, OHIO The unique 1907 Masonic Temple of Franklin Lodge No. 14 in Troy, Ohio has just been sold to unspecified buyers for $670,000. The historic building was constructed in 1907 by the Troy Franklin Lodge. According to Purke, early indications are that the Masonic Temple building, which is listed on the National Registry of Historic Buildings, willbe
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: NBC'S STREAMER PEACOCK ORDERS 'DANAUTHOR:CHRISTOPHER HODAPP
by Christopher Hodapp. PeacockTV, NBC's new subscription streaming TV service, has announced that they have ordered the TV pilot based on Dan Brown's Masonic-themed thriller, The Lost Symbol, to be picked up as a continuing series, to be entitled Dan Brown's Langdon. The pilot was initially planned to air on the NBC broadcast network, but now the series will be a flagship show for the FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: A TALE OF TWO MASONIC BUILDINGS A Tale of Two Masonic Buildings. The unfortunate loss of our Masonic buildings continues unabated. The latest fatality of our loss in membership is the Scottish Rite Valley of Moline, Illinois. The Valley was the last in Illinois to be chartered by the NMJ, between 1924 and 1927. Built and furnished for $450,000, the Cathedral was dedicatedMay
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: MARCH 6, 1775: PRINCE HALL MADE A Castle Williams Island, now Ft. Independence, in Boston Harbor, the site of Prince Hall's degrees in Masonry. "Negro Freemasonry" predates the Declaration of Independence in this country. On March 6, 1775, Prince Hall, along with fourteen free blacks from in or around Boston, Massachusetts, were raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason in FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: GUNS IN LODGE: SOUTH CAROLINA'S EDICT Guns In Lodge: South Carolina's Edict. On March 8th, 2004, a newly raised Freemason named William James was shot and killed during a hazing incident that went horribly wrong at South Side Lodge No. 493 in Patchogue, New York. The lodge had its own social group, The Fellow Craft Club, and they had come up with their own unauthorized ritualfor
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIESATOMQUILL & SWORD 357SEPTEMBERSPAINMAGPIE MASON Christopher L. Hodapp is the author of Freemasons For Dummies, the worldwide, best-selling introduction to the Masonic fraternity; Solomon's Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C. ; and Deciphering the Lost Symbol. His most recent book, Heritage Endures, was published in January 2018. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: CORONAVIRUS WARNINGS ANDAUTHOR: CHRISTOPHERHODAPP
Fortunately, a very helpful Brother has been updating his own website list of Masonic jurisdictions worldwide and their official reactions and announcements concerning COVID 19. To get a sense of what other Masonic jurisdictions are advising their members, check the Forthright website at: Freemasonry and COVID-19 Updates HERE.The site's author has asked on Reddit and elsewhere to be FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: UPDATED: IRONY AT ITS MOST IRONIC-EST Christopher L. Hodapp is the author of Freemasons For Dummies, the worldwide, best-selling introduction to the Masonic fraternity; Solomon's Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C. ; and Deciphering the Lost Symbol. His most recent book, Heritage Endures, was published in January 2018. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS DITCH DEGREES The Knights of Columbus is a voluntary men's fraternal group for Catholics, and was founded in 1885 by Father Michael McGivney, a young priest serving at St. Mary Church in New Haven, Connecticut. This was during the Golden Age of Fraternalism when membership in so-called "secret societies" was in full flower and explosive expansion. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: WOODMEN OF THE WORLD Christopher L. Hodapp is the author of Freemasons For Dummies, the worldwide, best-selling introduction to the Masonic fraternity; Solomon's Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C. ; and Deciphering the Lost Symbol. His most recent book, Heritage Endures, was published in January 2018. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: ANOTHER ONE LOST: TROY, OHIO The unique 1907 Masonic Temple of Franklin Lodge No. 14 in Troy, Ohio has just been sold to unspecified buyers for $670,000. The historic building was constructed in 1907 by the Troy Franklin Lodge. According to Purke, early indications are that the Masonic Temple building, which is listed on the National Registry of Historic Buildings, willbe
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: NBC'S STREAMER PEACOCK ORDERS 'DANAUTHOR:CHRISTOPHER HODAPP
by Christopher Hodapp. PeacockTV, NBC's new subscription streaming TV service, has announced that they have ordered the TV pilot based on Dan Brown's Masonic-themed thriller, The Lost Symbol, to be picked up as a continuing series, to be entitled Dan Brown's Langdon. The pilot was initially planned to air on the NBC broadcast network, but now the series will be a flagship show for the FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: A TALE OF TWO MASONIC BUILDINGS A Tale of Two Masonic Buildings. The unfortunate loss of our Masonic buildings continues unabated. The latest fatality of our loss in membership is the Scottish Rite Valley of Moline, Illinois. The Valley was the last in Illinois to be chartered by the NMJ, between 1924 and 1927. Built and furnished for $450,000, the Cathedral was dedicatedMay
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: MARCH 6, 1775: PRINCE HALL MADE A Castle Williams Island, now Ft. Independence, in Boston Harbor, the site of Prince Hall's degrees in Masonry. "Negro Freemasonry" predates the Declaration of Independence in this country. On March 6, 1775, Prince Hall, along with fourteen free blacks from in or around Boston, Massachusetts, were raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason in FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: GUNS IN LODGE: SOUTH CAROLINA'S EDICT Guns In Lodge: South Carolina's Edict. On March 8th, 2004, a newly raised Freemason named William James was shot and killed during a hazing incident that went horribly wrong at South Side Lodge No. 493 in Patchogue, New York. The lodge had its own social group, The Fellow Craft Club, and they had come up with their own unauthorized ritualfor
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: IDEAS FOR WORSHIPFUL MASTERS Here is the original plan that we came up with: 1. ALL Stated Meetings are held as Table Lodges in the dining room. Open, set the lodge at ease, go get your dinner, and hash out upcoming business and decide a plan of action over dessert. Then, go FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: UGLE LEADS NIGHTLY NINE O'CLOCK The "Nine O'Clock Toast" is "a tradition within Freemasonry that has been observed for many hundreds of years," Dr. David Staples, the CEO and Grand Secretary of the United Grand Lodge of England (UGLE) told Newsweek on Monday. From modern-day meetings at the pub to gatherings convened at the height of two world wars, the tradition, he said FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: THOSE NOTORIOUS FIRST THREE He is currently the Worshipful Master of the Dwight L. Smith Lodge of Research U.D. in Indiana. Chris is a 33° Mason in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite (NMJ), Indianapolis Valley. He is a Past Sovereign Master of Imhotep Council No. 434 of the Allied Masonic Degrees. He is a founding member of Levant Preceptory, a medievalKnights Templar
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: 'THE PLOT THICKENS' IN THE GL OF The charges brought against Smith were for authorizing Zoom meetings for the Scottish Rite Valleys throughout the state in his role as their SGIG for the Scottish Rite Southern Jurisdiction. Now, the plot, as they say in cheap potboilers, thickens. The Grand Lodge of South Carolina will be holding its annual communication this week on April FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: MORE ANTICS OUT OF ARKANSAS UPDATE 9/5/2016 Just as a point of reference, the Grand Lodge of Arkansas plummeted from 12,026 members to 9,078 between the reported years of 2014 and 2015.A loss of just shy of 1/4 of its membership in one year. Moreover, between the 13 years of 2002 through 2015, the average loss of membership across the board among all U.S. grandlodges is 32.8%.
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: SHRINERS HOSPITALS REBRANDING AS Bill Hosler over on the On The Square blog is reporting today that ' Shriners Hospitals for Children' has just announced that they are uniformly rebranding their network of 22 hospitals as 'Shriners Children's.' The name change is intended to unify and do away with a handful of different facility and corporate entity names of several Shriners children's hospitals and programs throughout North FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: THE PENTAGRAM: MASONIC? SATANIC Freemasons, in point of fact, do not venerate or worship ANY symbols. Symbolism is primarily used in Freemasonry as a memory device or an allegory to teach various moral lessons. The inverted pentagram has never appeared as a part of regular, recognized Masonic ritual orsymbolism.
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: HOLLYWOOD'S MOST UNUSUAL MASONIC … Christopher L. Hodapp is the author of Freemasons For Dummies, the worldwide, best-selling introduction to the Masonic fraternity; Solomon's Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C.; and Deciphering the Lost Symbol.His most recent book, Heritage Endures, was published in January 2018. Since 2009 he has been on the Board of the Masonic Library & FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: ALPHONSE MUCHA, ARTIST AND FREEMASON Mucha passed away on July 14, 1939. In open defiance of the Nazi ban on public assemblies, over 100,000 Czechs attended his funeral, and he was eulogized in speeches given by his fellow anti-fascists. H/T Adam Kendall. Posted by Christopher Hodapp at Friday, August 05, 2016. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: MAJOR REBELLION WITHIN THE Freemasons Still in Rebellion - by Francois Koch. L'Express. Thursday, March 25, 2010. The dispute never ends at the GLNF (National Grand Lodge of France). On Thursday, more than a thousand delegates from lodges made the trip to Paris to show their discontent. The "Rebels of December 4," whose dispute is spreading beyond Paris and Tours, have FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIESATOMQUILL & SWORD 357SEPTEMBERSPAINMAGPIE MASON Christopher L. Hodapp is the author of Freemasons For Dummies, the worldwide, best-selling introduction to the Masonic fraternity; Solomon's Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C. ; and Deciphering the Lost Symbol. His most recent book, Heritage Endures, was published in January 2018. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: CORONAVIRUS WARNINGS ANDAUTHOR: CHRISTOPHERHODAPP
Fortunately, a very helpful Brother has been updating his own website list of Masonic jurisdictions worldwide and their official reactions and announcements concerning COVID 19. To get a sense of what other Masonic jurisdictions are advising their members, check the Forthright website at: Freemasonry and COVID-19 Updates HERE.The site's author has asked on Reddit and elsewhere to be FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: CAN YOU IDENTIFY THIS? A legendary brotherhood. Freemasonry is the largest, oldest and best-known gentleman's fraternity in the world. Historically, it is based on the Medieval stonemason guilds who built the great castles and cathedrals of Europe. Mythologically it is founded upon the building of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, as told in the Old Testament of the Bible. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: WOODMEN OF THE WORLD Christopher L. Hodapp is the author of Freemasons For Dummies, the worldwide, best-selling introduction to the Masonic fraternity; Solomon's Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C. ; and Deciphering the Lost Symbol. His most recent book, Heritage Endures, was published in January 2018. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS DITCH DEGREES The Knights of Columbus is a voluntary men's fraternal group for Catholics, and was founded in 1885 by Father Michael McGivney, a young priest serving at St. Mary Church in New Haven, Connecticut. This was during the Golden Age of Fraternalism when membership in so-called "secret societies" was in full flower and explosive expansion. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: JAY HOCHBERG ELECTED PRESIDENT OF WB Jay Hochberg was there from the very start that fateful February of 2008, and he was named as a Founding Fellow of the Society when we officially announced ourselves as open in May 2008.So it is with great honor and pride that I report that Jay has just been elected this weekend as the seventh President of the Masonic Society at their dinner and annual meeting. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: IDEAS FOR WORSHIPFUL MASTERS Here is the original plan that we came up with: 1. ALL Stated Meetings are held as Table Lodges in the dining room. Open, set the lodge at ease, go get your dinner, and hash out upcoming business and decide a plan of action over dessert. Then, go FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: NBC'S STREAMER PEACOCK ORDERS 'DAN by Christopher Hodapp. PeacockTV, NBC's new subscription streaming TV service, has announced that they have ordered the TV pilot based on Dan Brown's Masonic-themed thriller, The Lost Symbol, to be picked up as a continuing series, to be entitled Dan Brown's Langdon. The pilot was initially planned to air on the NBC broadcast network, but now the series will be a flagship show for the FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: THOSE NOTORIOUS FIRST THREE He is currently the Worshipful Master of the Dwight L. Smith Lodge of Research U.D. in Indiana. Chris is a 33° Mason in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite (NMJ), Indianapolis Valley. He is a Past Sovereign Master of Imhotep Council No. 434 of the Allied Masonic Degrees. He is a founding member of Levant Preceptory, a medievalKnights Templar
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: THE PENTAGRAM: MASONIC? SATANIC Freemasons, in point of fact, do not venerate or worship ANY symbols. Symbolism is primarily used in Freemasonry as a memory device or an allegory to teach various moral lessons. The inverted pentagram has never appeared as a part of regular, recognized Masonic ritual orsymbolism.
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIESATOMQUILL & SWORD 357SEPTEMBERSPAINMAGPIE MASON Christopher L. Hodapp is the author of Freemasons For Dummies, the worldwide, best-selling introduction to the Masonic fraternity; Solomon's Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C. ; and Deciphering the Lost Symbol. His most recent book, Heritage Endures, was published in January 2018. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: CORONAVIRUS WARNINGS ANDAUTHOR: CHRISTOPHERHODAPP
Fortunately, a very helpful Brother has been updating his own website list of Masonic jurisdictions worldwide and their official reactions and announcements concerning COVID 19. To get a sense of what other Masonic jurisdictions are advising their members, check the Forthright website at: Freemasonry and COVID-19 Updates HERE.The site's author has asked on Reddit and elsewhere to be FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: CAN YOU IDENTIFY THIS? A legendary brotherhood. Freemasonry is the largest, oldest and best-known gentleman's fraternity in the world. Historically, it is based on the Medieval stonemason guilds who built the great castles and cathedrals of Europe. Mythologically it is founded upon the building of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, as told in the Old Testament of the Bible. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: WOODMEN OF THE WORLD Christopher L. Hodapp is the author of Freemasons For Dummies, the worldwide, best-selling introduction to the Masonic fraternity; Solomon's Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C. ; and Deciphering the Lost Symbol. His most recent book, Heritage Endures, was published in January 2018. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS DITCH DEGREES The Knights of Columbus is a voluntary men's fraternal group for Catholics, and was founded in 1885 by Father Michael McGivney, a young priest serving at St. Mary Church in New Haven, Connecticut. This was during the Golden Age of Fraternalism when membership in so-called "secret societies" was in full flower and explosive expansion. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: JAY HOCHBERG ELECTED PRESIDENT OF WB Jay Hochberg was there from the very start that fateful February of 2008, and he was named as a Founding Fellow of the Society when we officially announced ourselves as open in May 2008.So it is with great honor and pride that I report that Jay has just been elected this weekend as the seventh President of the Masonic Society at their dinner and annual meeting. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: IDEAS FOR WORSHIPFUL MASTERS Here is the original plan that we came up with: 1. ALL Stated Meetings are held as Table Lodges in the dining room. Open, set the lodge at ease, go get your dinner, and hash out upcoming business and decide a plan of action over dessert. Then, go FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: NBC'S STREAMER PEACOCK ORDERS 'DAN by Christopher Hodapp. PeacockTV, NBC's new subscription streaming TV service, has announced that they have ordered the TV pilot based on Dan Brown's Masonic-themed thriller, The Lost Symbol, to be picked up as a continuing series, to be entitled Dan Brown's Langdon. The pilot was initially planned to air on the NBC broadcast network, but now the series will be a flagship show for the FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: THOSE NOTORIOUS FIRST THREE He is currently the Worshipful Master of the Dwight L. Smith Lodge of Research U.D. in Indiana. Chris is a 33° Mason in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite (NMJ), Indianapolis Valley. He is a Past Sovereign Master of Imhotep Council No. 434 of the Allied Masonic Degrees. He is a founding member of Levant Preceptory, a medievalKnights Templar
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: THE PENTAGRAM: MASONIC? SATANIC Freemasons, in point of fact, do not venerate or worship ANY symbols. Symbolism is primarily used in Freemasonry as a memory device or an allegory to teach various moral lessons. The inverted pentagram has never appeared as a part of regular, recognized Masonic ritual orsymbolism.
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: TROUBLE IN BATTLE CREEK, MI The Masonic Temple in downtown Battle Creek, Michigan was busted early Sunday moring in what authorities are calling a "drug-fueled orgy", according to several papers. The story has even hit the widely read Drudge Report online. From the Daily Mail: Officers were called to the prominent building in downtown Battle Creek, Michigan - which sits across a park from police headquarters - about 2 FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: A TALE OF TWO MASONIC BUILDINGS A Tale of Two Masonic Buildings. The unfortunate loss of our Masonic buildings continues unabated. The latest fatality of our loss in membership is the Scottish Rite Valley of Moline, Illinois. The Valley was the last in Illinois to be chartered by the NMJ, between 1924 and 1927. Built and furnished for $450,000, the Cathedral was dedicatedMay
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: THE PENTAGRAM: MASONIC? SATANIC Freemasons, in point of fact, do not venerate or worship ANY symbols. Symbolism is primarily used in Freemasonry as a memory device or an allegory to teach various moral lessons. The inverted pentagram has never appeared as a part of regular, recognized Masonic ritual orsymbolism.
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: ISLAM AND FREEMASONRY They have wicked principles that completely contradict the rules of Islam. * There is a clear relationship between Freemasonry, Judaism, and international Zionism. It has controlled the activities of high Arab officials in the Palestinian conflict. * Any Muslim who affiliates with it, knowing the truth of its objectives, is an infidelto Islam.
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: MARCH 6, 1775: PRINCE HALL MADE A Castle Williams Island, now Ft. Independence, in Boston Harbor, the site of Prince Hall's degrees in Masonry. "Negro Freemasonry" predates the Declaration of Independence in this country. On March 6, 1775, Prince Hall, along with fourteen free blacks from in or around Boston, Massachusetts, were raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason in FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: ARSON DESTROYS OKLAHOMA MASONIC HALL Arson Destroys Oklahoma Masonic Hall. The Masonic temple of Wright Lodge No. 483 in Wright City, Oklahoma was destroyed Thursday night by fire. According to a message from the Grand Secretary of Oklahoma, Bobby L. Laws, PGM, a "fire source" was thrown through the front window of the building. The arson attack reportedly happened at aboutmidnight.
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: PAINTING BY FAMOUS ARTIST A massive painting by German American artist Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (1816-1868) has hung unknown to the outside world in an eastern Pennsylvania Masonic lodge almost since the day it was painted in the 1840s, and has just recently been discovered by the art community. Leutze is best known today for his iconic image of Washington Crossingthe
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: GRAND ORIENT FREEMASONRY AND THE Grand Orient Freemasonry and the European Union. The world of Anglo-Saxon derived Freemasonry is generally perplexed by the anti-Masonic allegation that Freemasons are attempting to somehow create a one-world government, or somehow influence governments or politicians from behind the scenes. The notion that an English, US,Canadian, or
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: ALPHONSE MUCHA, ARTIST AND FREEMASON Mucha passed away on July 14, 1939. In open defiance of the Nazi ban on public assemblies, over 100,000 Czechs attended his funeral, and he was eulogized in speeches given by his fellow anti-fascists. H/T Adam Kendall. Posted by Christopher Hodapp at Friday, August 05, 2016. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: GRAND ORIENT OF THE NETHERLANDS The Grand Orient of the Netherlands, the governing Masonic body in the country that is largely recognized by the majority of regular grand lodges around the world, has announced on their official Facebook page that they have suspended fraternal relations with the Grand Lodge of Georgia and the Grand Lodge of Tennessee. They are the second grand lodge outside of the U.S. to do so, after the FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIESATOMQUILL & SWORD 357SEPTEMBERSPAINMAGPIE MASON Christopher L. Hodapp is the author of Freemasons For Dummies, the worldwide, best-selling introduction to the Masonic fraternity; Solomon's Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C. ; and Deciphering the Lost Symbol. His most recent book, Heritage Endures, was published in January 2018. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: CORONAVIRUS WARNINGS ANDAUTHOR: CHRISTOPHERHODAPP
Fortunately, a very helpful Brother has been updating his own website list of Masonic jurisdictions worldwide and their official reactions and announcements concerning COVID 19. To get a sense of what other Masonic jurisdictions are advising their members, check the Forthright website at: Freemasonry and COVID-19 Updates HERE.The site's author has asked on Reddit and elsewhere to be FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: CAN YOU IDENTIFY THIS? A legendary brotherhood. Freemasonry is the largest, oldest and best-known gentleman's fraternity in the world. Historically, it is based on the Medieval stonemason guilds who built the great castles and cathedrals of Europe. Mythologically it is founded upon the building of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, as told in the Old Testament of the Bible. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: WOODMEN OF THE WORLD Christopher L. Hodapp is the author of Freemasons For Dummies, the worldwide, best-selling introduction to the Masonic fraternity; Solomon's Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C. ; and Deciphering the Lost Symbol. His most recent book, Heritage Endures, was published in January 2018. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS DITCH DEGREES The Knights of Columbus is a voluntary men's fraternal group for Catholics, and was founded in 1885 by Father Michael McGivney, a young priest serving at St. Mary Church in New Haven, Connecticut. This was during the Golden Age of Fraternalism when membership in so-called "secret societies" was in full flower and explosive expansion. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: JAY HOCHBERG ELECTED PRESIDENT OF WB Jay Hochberg was there from the very start that fateful February of 2008, and he was named as a Founding Fellow of the Society when we officially announced ourselves as open in May 2008.So it is with great honor and pride that I report that Jay has just been elected this weekend as the seventh President of the Masonic Society at their dinner and annual meeting. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: IDEAS FOR WORSHIPFUL MASTERS Here is the original plan that we came up with: 1. ALL Stated Meetings are held as Table Lodges in the dining room. Open, set the lodge at ease, go get your dinner, and hash out upcoming business and decide a plan of action over dessert. Then, go FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: NBC'S STREAMER PEACOCK ORDERS 'DAN by Christopher Hodapp. PeacockTV, NBC's new subscription streaming TV service, has announced that they have ordered the TV pilot based on Dan Brown's Masonic-themed thriller, The Lost Symbol, to be picked up as a continuing series, to be entitled Dan Brown's Langdon. The pilot was initially planned to air on the NBC broadcast network, but now the series will be a flagship show for the FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: THOSE NOTORIOUS FIRST THREE He is currently the Worshipful Master of the Dwight L. Smith Lodge of Research U.D. in Indiana. Chris is a 33° Mason in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite (NMJ), Indianapolis Valley. He is a Past Sovereign Master of Imhotep Council No. 434 of the Allied Masonic Degrees. He is a founding member of Levant Preceptory, a medievalKnights Templar
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: THE PENTAGRAM: MASONIC? SATANIC Freemasons, in point of fact, do not venerate or worship ANY symbols. Symbolism is primarily used in Freemasonry as a memory device or an allegory to teach various moral lessons. The inverted pentagram has never appeared as a part of regular, recognized Masonic ritual orsymbolism.
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIESATOMQUILL & SWORD 357SEPTEMBERSPAINMAGPIE MASON Christopher L. Hodapp is the author of Freemasons For Dummies, the worldwide, best-selling introduction to the Masonic fraternity; Solomon's Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C. ; and Deciphering the Lost Symbol. His most recent book, Heritage Endures, was published in January 2018. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: CORONAVIRUS WARNINGS ANDAUTHOR: CHRISTOPHERHODAPP
Fortunately, a very helpful Brother has been updating his own website list of Masonic jurisdictions worldwide and their official reactions and announcements concerning COVID 19. To get a sense of what other Masonic jurisdictions are advising their members, check the Forthright website at: Freemasonry and COVID-19 Updates HERE.The site's author has asked on Reddit and elsewhere to be FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: CAN YOU IDENTIFY THIS? A legendary brotherhood. Freemasonry is the largest, oldest and best-known gentleman's fraternity in the world. Historically, it is based on the Medieval stonemason guilds who built the great castles and cathedrals of Europe. Mythologically it is founded upon the building of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, as told in the Old Testament of the Bible. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: WOODMEN OF THE WORLD Christopher L. Hodapp is the author of Freemasons For Dummies, the worldwide, best-selling introduction to the Masonic fraternity; Solomon's Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C. ; and Deciphering the Lost Symbol. His most recent book, Heritage Endures, was published in January 2018. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS DITCH DEGREES The Knights of Columbus is a voluntary men's fraternal group for Catholics, and was founded in 1885 by Father Michael McGivney, a young priest serving at St. Mary Church in New Haven, Connecticut. This was during the Golden Age of Fraternalism when membership in so-called "secret societies" was in full flower and explosive expansion. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: JAY HOCHBERG ELECTED PRESIDENT OF WB Jay Hochberg was there from the very start that fateful February of 2008, and he was named as a Founding Fellow of the Society when we officially announced ourselves as open in May 2008.So it is with great honor and pride that I report that Jay has just been elected this weekend as the seventh President of the Masonic Society at their dinner and annual meeting. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: IDEAS FOR WORSHIPFUL MASTERS Here is the original plan that we came up with: 1. ALL Stated Meetings are held as Table Lodges in the dining room. Open, set the lodge at ease, go get your dinner, and hash out upcoming business and decide a plan of action over dessert. Then, go FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: NBC'S STREAMER PEACOCK ORDERS 'DAN by Christopher Hodapp. PeacockTV, NBC's new subscription streaming TV service, has announced that they have ordered the TV pilot based on Dan Brown's Masonic-themed thriller, The Lost Symbol, to be picked up as a continuing series, to be entitled Dan Brown's Langdon. The pilot was initially planned to air on the NBC broadcast network, but now the series will be a flagship show for the FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: THOSE NOTORIOUS FIRST THREE He is currently the Worshipful Master of the Dwight L. Smith Lodge of Research U.D. in Indiana. Chris is a 33° Mason in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite (NMJ), Indianapolis Valley. He is a Past Sovereign Master of Imhotep Council No. 434 of the Allied Masonic Degrees. He is a founding member of Levant Preceptory, a medievalKnights Templar
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: THE PENTAGRAM: MASONIC? SATANIC Freemasons, in point of fact, do not venerate or worship ANY symbols. Symbolism is primarily used in Freemasonry as a memory device or an allegory to teach various moral lessons. The inverted pentagram has never appeared as a part of regular, recognized Masonic ritual orsymbolism.
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: TROUBLE IN BATTLE CREEK, MI The Masonic Temple in downtown Battle Creek, Michigan was busted early Sunday moring in what authorities are calling a "drug-fueled orgy", according to several papers. The story has even hit the widely read Drudge Report online. From the Daily Mail: Officers were called to the prominent building in downtown Battle Creek, Michigan - which sits across a park from police headquarters - about 2 FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: A TALE OF TWO MASONIC BUILDINGS A Tale of Two Masonic Buildings. The unfortunate loss of our Masonic buildings continues unabated. The latest fatality of our loss in membership is the Scottish Rite Valley of Moline, Illinois. The Valley was the last in Illinois to be chartered by the NMJ, between 1924 and 1927. Built and furnished for $450,000, the Cathedral was dedicatedMay
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: THE PENTAGRAM: MASONIC? SATANIC Freemasons, in point of fact, do not venerate or worship ANY symbols. Symbolism is primarily used in Freemasonry as a memory device or an allegory to teach various moral lessons. The inverted pentagram has never appeared as a part of regular, recognized Masonic ritual orsymbolism.
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: ISLAM AND FREEMASONRY They have wicked principles that completely contradict the rules of Islam. * There is a clear relationship between Freemasonry, Judaism, and international Zionism. It has controlled the activities of high Arab officials in the Palestinian conflict. * Any Muslim who affiliates with it, knowing the truth of its objectives, is an infidelto Islam.
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: MARCH 6, 1775: PRINCE HALL MADE A Castle Williams Island, now Ft. Independence, in Boston Harbor, the site of Prince Hall's degrees in Masonry. "Negro Freemasonry" predates the Declaration of Independence in this country. On March 6, 1775, Prince Hall, along with fourteen free blacks from in or around Boston, Massachusetts, were raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason in FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: ARSON DESTROYS OKLAHOMA MASONIC HALL Arson Destroys Oklahoma Masonic Hall. The Masonic temple of Wright Lodge No. 483 in Wright City, Oklahoma was destroyed Thursday night by fire. According to a message from the Grand Secretary of Oklahoma, Bobby L. Laws, PGM, a "fire source" was thrown through the front window of the building. The arson attack reportedly happened at aboutmidnight.
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: PAINTING BY FAMOUS ARTIST A massive painting by German American artist Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (1816-1868) has hung unknown to the outside world in an eastern Pennsylvania Masonic lodge almost since the day it was painted in the 1840s, and has just recently been discovered by the art community. Leutze is best known today for his iconic image of Washington Crossingthe
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: GRAND ORIENT FREEMASONRY AND THE Grand Orient Freemasonry and the European Union. The world of Anglo-Saxon derived Freemasonry is generally perplexed by the anti-Masonic allegation that Freemasons are attempting to somehow create a one-world government, or somehow influence governments or politicians from behind the scenes. The notion that an English, US,Canadian, or
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: ALPHONSE MUCHA, ARTIST AND FREEMASON Mucha passed away on July 14, 1939. In open defiance of the Nazi ban on public assemblies, over 100,000 Czechs attended his funeral, and he was eulogized in speeches given by his fellow anti-fascists. H/T Adam Kendall. Posted by Christopher Hodapp at Friday, August 05, 2016. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: GRAND ORIENT OF THE NETHERLANDS The Grand Orient of the Netherlands, the governing Masonic body in the country that is largely recognized by the majority of regular grand lodges around the world, has announced on their official Facebook page that they have suspended fraternal relations with the Grand Lodge of Georgia and the Grand Lodge of Tennessee. They are the second grand lodge outside of the U.S. to do so, after the FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES Christopher L. Hodapp is the author of Freemasons For Dummies, the worldwide, best-selling introduction to the Masonic fraternity; Solomon's Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C. ; and Deciphering the Lost Symbol. His most recent book, Heritage Endures, was published in January 2018. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: CORONAVIRUS WARNINGS ANDAUTHOR: CHRISTOPHERHODAPP
Fortunately, a very helpful Brother has been updating his own website list of Masonic jurisdictions worldwide and their official reactions and announcements concerning COVID 19. To get a sense of what other Masonic jurisdictions are advising their members, check the Forthright website at: Freemasonry and COVID-19 Updates HERE.The site's author has asked on Reddit and elsewhere to be FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: CAN YOU IDENTIFY THIS? A legendary brotherhood. Freemasonry is the largest, oldest and best-known gentleman's fraternity in the world. Historically, it is based on the Medieval stonemason guilds who built the great castles and cathedrals of Europe. Mythologically it is founded upon the building of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, as told in the Old Testament of the Bible. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: WOODMEN OF THE WORLD Christopher L. Hodapp is the author of Freemasons For Dummies, the worldwide, best-selling introduction to the Masonic fraternity; Solomon's Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C. ; and Deciphering the Lost Symbol. His most recent book, Heritage Endures, was published in January 2018. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS DITCH DEGREES The Knights of Columbus is a voluntary men's fraternal group for Catholics, and was founded in 1885 by Father Michael McGivney, a young priest serving at St. Mary Church in New Haven, Connecticut. This was during the Golden Age of Fraternalism when membership in so-called "secret societies" was in full flower and explosive expansion. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: JAY HOCHBERG ELECTED PRESIDENT OF WB Jay Hochberg was there from the very start that fateful February of 2008, and he was named as a Founding Fellow of the Society when we officially announced ourselves as open in May 2008.So it is with great honor and pride that I report that Jay has just been elected this weekend as the seventh President of the Masonic Society at their dinner and annual meeting. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: IDEAS FOR WORSHIPFUL MASTERS Here is the original plan that we came up with: 1. ALL Stated Meetings are held as Table Lodges in the dining room. Open, set the lodge at ease, go get your dinner, and hash out upcoming business and decide a plan of action over dessert. Then, go FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: NBC'S STREAMER PEACOCK ORDERS 'DAN by Christopher Hodapp. PeacockTV, NBC's new subscription streaming TV service, has announced that they have ordered the TV pilot based on Dan Brown's Masonic-themed thriller, The Lost Symbol, to be picked up as a continuing series, to be entitled Dan Brown's Langdon. The pilot was initially planned to air on the NBC broadcast network, but now the series will be a flagship show for the FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: THOSE NOTORIOUS FIRST THREE He is currently the Worshipful Master of the Dwight L. Smith Lodge of Research U.D. in Indiana. Chris is a 33° Mason in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite (NMJ), Indianapolis Valley. He is a Past Sovereign Master of Imhotep Council No. 434 of the Allied Masonic Degrees. He is a founding member of Levant Preceptory, a medievalKnights Templar
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: THE PENTAGRAM: MASONIC? SATANICSHOPS INSIDETHE PENTAGON
Freemasons, in point of fact, do not venerate or worship ANY symbols. Symbolism is primarily used in Freemasonry as a memory device or an allegory to teach various moral lessons. The inverted pentagram has never appeared as a part of regular, recognized Masonic ritual orsymbolism.
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIESATOMQUILL & SWORD 357SEPTEMBERSPAINMAGPIE MASON Christopher L. Hodapp is the author of Freemasons For Dummies, the worldwide, best-selling introduction to the Masonic fraternity; Solomon's Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C. ; and Deciphering the Lost Symbol. His most recent book, Heritage Endures, was published in January 2018. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: CORONAVIRUS WARNINGS ANDAUTHOR: CHRISTOPHERHODAPP
Fortunately, a very helpful Brother has been updating his own website list of Masonic jurisdictions worldwide and their official reactions and announcements concerning COVID 19. To get a sense of what other Masonic jurisdictions are advising their members, check the Forthright website at: Freemasonry and COVID-19 Updates HERE.The site's author has asked on Reddit and elsewhere to be FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: CAN YOU IDENTIFY THIS? A legendary brotherhood. Freemasonry is the largest, oldest and best-known gentleman's fraternity in the world. Historically, it is based on the Medieval stonemason guilds who built the great castles and cathedrals of Europe. Mythologically it is founded upon the building of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, as told in the Old Testament of the Bible. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: WOODMEN OF THE WORLD Christopher L. Hodapp is the author of Freemasons For Dummies, the worldwide, best-selling introduction to the Masonic fraternity; Solomon's Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C. ; and Deciphering the Lost Symbol. His most recent book, Heritage Endures, was published in January 2018. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS DITCH DEGREES The Knights of Columbus is a voluntary men's fraternal group for Catholics, and was founded in 1885 by Father Michael McGivney, a young priest serving at St. Mary Church in New Haven, Connecticut. This was during the Golden Age of Fraternalism when membership in so-called "secret societies" was in full flower and explosive expansion. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: JAY HOCHBERG ELECTED PRESIDENT OF WB Jay Hochberg was there from the very start that fateful February of 2008, and he was named as a Founding Fellow of the Society when we officially announced ourselves as open in May 2008.So it is with great honor and pride that I report that Jay has just been elected this weekend as the seventh President of the Masonic Society at their dinner and annual meeting. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: IDEAS FOR WORSHIPFUL MASTERS Here is the original plan that we came up with: 1. ALL Stated Meetings are held as Table Lodges in the dining room. Open, set the lodge at ease, go get your dinner, and hash out upcoming business and decide a plan of action over dessert. Then, go FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: NBC'S STREAMER PEACOCK ORDERS 'DAN by Christopher Hodapp. PeacockTV, NBC's new subscription streaming TV service, has announced that they have ordered the TV pilot based on Dan Brown's Masonic-themed thriller, The Lost Symbol, to be picked up as a continuing series, to be entitled Dan Brown's Langdon. The pilot was initially planned to air on the NBC broadcast network, but now the series will be a flagship show for the FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: THOSE NOTORIOUS FIRST THREE He is currently the Worshipful Master of the Dwight L. Smith Lodge of Research U.D. in Indiana. Chris is a 33° Mason in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite (NMJ), Indianapolis Valley. He is a Past Sovereign Master of Imhotep Council No. 434 of the Allied Masonic Degrees. He is a founding member of Levant Preceptory, a medievalKnights Templar
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: THE PENTAGRAM: MASONIC? SATANICSHOPS INSIDETHE PENTAGON
Freemasons, in point of fact, do not venerate or worship ANY symbols. Symbolism is primarily used in Freemasonry as a memory device or an allegory to teach various moral lessons. The inverted pentagram has never appeared as a part of regular, recognized Masonic ritual orsymbolism.
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: TROUBLE IN BATTLE CREEK, MI The Masonic Temple in downtown Battle Creek, Michigan was busted early Sunday moring in what authorities are calling a "drug-fueled orgy", according to several papers. The story has even hit the widely read Drudge Report online. From the Daily Mail: Officers were called to the prominent building in downtown Battle Creek, Michigan - which sits across a park from police headquarters - about 2 FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: A TALE OF TWO MASONIC BUILDINGS A Tale of Two Masonic Buildings. The unfortunate loss of our Masonic buildings continues unabated. The latest fatality of our loss in membership is the Scottish Rite Valley of Moline, Illinois. The Valley was the last in Illinois to be chartered by the NMJ, between 1924 and 1927. Built and furnished for $450,000, the Cathedral was dedicatedMay
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: THE PENTAGRAM: MASONIC? SATANIC Freemasons, in point of fact, do not venerate or worship ANY symbols. Symbolism is primarily used in Freemasonry as a memory device or an allegory to teach various moral lessons. The inverted pentagram has never appeared as a part of regular, recognized Masonic ritual orsymbolism.
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: ISLAM AND FREEMASONRY They have wicked principles that completely contradict the rules of Islam. * There is a clear relationship between Freemasonry, Judaism, and international Zionism. It has controlled the activities of high Arab officials in the Palestinian conflict. * Any Muslim who affiliates with it, knowing the truth of its objectives, is an infidelto Islam.
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: MARCH 6, 1775: PRINCE HALL MADE A Castle Williams Island, now Ft. Independence, in Boston Harbor, the site of Prince Hall's degrees in Masonry. "Negro Freemasonry" predates the Declaration of Independence in this country. On March 6, 1775, Prince Hall, along with fourteen free blacks from in or around Boston, Massachusetts, were raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason in FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: ARSON DESTROYS OKLAHOMA MASONIC HALL Arson Destroys Oklahoma Masonic Hall. The Masonic temple of Wright Lodge No. 483 in Wright City, Oklahoma was destroyed Thursday night by fire. According to a message from the Grand Secretary of Oklahoma, Bobby L. Laws, PGM, a "fire source" was thrown through the front window of the building. The arson attack reportedly happened at aboutmidnight.
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: PAINTING BY FAMOUS ARTIST A massive painting by German American artist Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (1816-1868) has hung unknown to the outside world in an eastern Pennsylvania Masonic lodge almost since the day it was painted in the 1840s, and has just recently been discovered by the art community. Leutze is best known today for his iconic image of Washington Crossingthe
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: GRAND ORIENT FREEMASONRY AND THE Grand Orient Freemasonry and the European Union. The world of Anglo-Saxon derived Freemasonry is generally perplexed by the anti-Masonic allegation that Freemasons are attempting to somehow create a one-world government, or somehow influence governments or politicians from behind the scenes. The notion that an English, US,Canadian, or
FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: ALPHONSE MUCHA, ARTIST AND FREEMASON Mucha passed away on July 14, 1939. In open defiance of the Nazi ban on public assemblies, over 100,000 Czechs attended his funeral, and he was eulogized in speeches given by his fellow anti-fascists. H/T Adam Kendall. Posted by Christopher Hodapp at Friday, August 05, 2016. FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES: GRAND ORIENT OF THE NETHERLANDS The Grand Orient of the Netherlands, the governing Masonic body in the country that is largely recognized by the majority of regular grand lodges around the world, has announced on their official Facebook page that they have suspended fraternal relations with the Grand Lodge of Georgia and the Grand Lodge of Tennessee. They are the second grand lodge outside of the U.S. to do so, after the_
"To preserve the reputation of the Fraternity unsullied must be yourconstant care."_
------------------------- VISIT THE NEW FREEMASONS FOR DUMMIES WEBSITE AT FREEMASONSFORDUMMIES.COM ------------------------- MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2019 TRI-STATE MASONIC DEGREE EXEMPLIFICATION IN GRAND RAPIDS, MI: 11/23 On Saturday, November 23, 2019 three midwestern U.S. Grand Lodges will come together for a Tri-State Masonic Degree Exemplification. This is a rare opportunity to see how the three Craft Lodge degrees are conferred in these sister jurisdictions. The Grand Lodge of Michigan F&AM will be hosting the Tri-State Degree Day at the Grand RapidsMasonic Center.
_Grand Rapids Masonic Center_ The three Blue Lodge degrees will each be presented by the grand officers of the Grand Lodges of Ohio, Indiana and Michigan respectively, without lectures and charges. The Entered Apprentice Degree will be performed by the Grand Lodge F&AM of Indiana; the Fellow Craft Degree by the Grand Lodge F&AM of Michigan; and the Master Mason Degree by the Grand Lodge F&AM ofOhio.
All Master Masons in amity with the Grand Lodge of Michigan are welcome to attend this demonstration of the degrees. Obviously this is a tyled event, so be sure you bring your current dues card - _Membership will be verified._ And if last year's gathering in Indianapolis was any barometer, it wouldn't hurt to toss in an apron if you have one, just in case the supply is tight.__
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This event begins promptly at 1:00 PM. Please know that the schedule for the day is full and they will be moving from one degree right intothe next.
* Entered Apprentice Degree - presented by the Grand Lodge F&AM ofOhio
* Followed by the Fellow Craft Degree - presented by the Grand LodgeF&AM of Indiana
* Followed by the Master Mason Degree - presented by the Grand LodgeF&AM of Michigan
3:45 PM (Estimated) - Light Reception with Cash Bar Registration with payment of $20 is due by Friday, November 15, 2019. This may be paid via PayPal or check payable to Grand Lodge of Michigan mailed to 1204 Wright Ave., Alma, MI 48801. _CLICK HERE TO REGISTER ONLINE!_ _WREATH LAYING CEREMONY TO FOLLOW AT PRESIDENT GERALD FORD'SGRAVESITE_
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_ At 5:00 PM that Saturday there will be a wreath laying ceremony at President Gerald R. Ford's gravesite presented by the Grand Lodge Officers of Ohio, Indiana & Michigan. The Ford grave is located at 303 Pearl Street NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49504 Because of the tumultuous twists of history, Gerald Ford is the only person ever to have served as both Vice President and President without being elected to either office. Brother Gerald Rudolph Ford served as the 38th President of the United States between 1974-77 after the resignation of Richard M. Nixon. Ford had been appointed as Nixon's Vice President in December 1973 following the resignation of Spiro T. Agnew. He lost the presidential election of 1976 to Jimmy Carter, and his was the shortest term in history for an American president who did not die in office. But Ford's steady, affable nature combined with his moderate political views and policies helped to calm a nation at one of the most fraught political periods in U.S. history. To date, Gerald Ford is the last U.S. President to have been aFreemason.
Brother Gerald Ford was initiated as an Entered Apprentice on September 30, 1949 in Malta Lodge No. 465 in Grand Rapids Michigan, along with his three half-brothers Thomas Gardner Ford, Richard Addison Ford, and James Francis Ford. Brother Gerald's Fellow Craft and Master Mason degrees were conferred by Columbia Lodge No. 3, Washington, D.C., on April 20 and May 18, 1951 as a courtesy to Malta Lodge. He was also a member of the Scottish Rite and the Shrine. In 1975, Ford was made an honorary grand master of the Order of DeMolay. That same year, he visited the George Washington Masonic Memorial in Alexandria, Virginia for the unveiling of a plaque in the auditorium marking his own presidency. Ford's speech at the event was later published in his public papers, and in it he spoke of his ownMasonic journey
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> _"When I took my obligation as a master mason — incidentally, with > my three younger brothers — I recalled the value my own father > attached to that Order. But I had no idea that I would ever be added > to the company of the Father of our country and 12 other members of > the order who also served as Presidents of the United States. > Masonic principles — internal, not external — and our order's > vision of duty to country and acceptance of God as Supreme Being and > guiding light have sustained me during my years of government > service. Today especially, the guidelines by which I strive to > become an upright man in Masonry give me great personal strength._ > _"Masonic precepts can help America retain our inspiring aspirations > while adapting to a new age. It is apparent to me that the Supreme > Architect has set out the duties each of us has to perform, and I > have trusted in His will with the knowledge that my trust is> well-founded..._
> _"Let us today rededicate ourselves to new efforts--as Masons and as > Americans. Let us demonstrate our confidence in our beloved Nation > and a future that will flow from the glory of the past. When I think > of the things right about America, I think of this order with its > sense of duty to __country, its esteem for brotherhood and > traditional values, its spiritual high principles, and its humble > acceptance of God as the Supreme Being..."_ After the post-degree reception at the Masonic Center, the grand officers will depart for the Ford gravesite at 4:30PM. If you require overnight accommodations in Grand Rapids, there is a limited block of rooms available at the Amway Grand Plaza. Feel free to use the link below: Amway Hotel Booking Website: https://book.passkey.com/e/49907135 If you have any questions, feel free to contact a representative directly at 989-466-3091at 10/28/2019
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2019 MARYLAND'S PHA MASONS PERFORM FUNERAL SERVICE FOR ELIJAH CUMMINGS CSPAN viewers Wednesday saw something rarely televised. The Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Maryland conducted a Masonic funeral service for their fallen Brother, the late Elijah E. Cummings, Congressman for Maryland's 7th CongressionalDistrict.
Brother Cummings passed to the Celestial Lodge on October 17th at the age of 68. He was a member of Baltimore's Corinthian Lodge No.62.
Grand Lecturer Randolph S. Smith performed the solemn funeral ritual, followed by a tribute by Grand Master Emmanuel J. Stanley. _Grand Master Emmanuel J. Stanley (far right)_ Cummings' body was laying in repose on Thursday at historically black Morgan State University in Baltimore. He was a Prince Hall Mason in Baltimore, and his casket was flanked by an honor guard of Prince Hall Masonic Knights Templar for the duration of the memorial service. In addition to the many members of the MWPHGL of Maryland, Prince Hall Brethren came from West Virginia, Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia, and Hawaii to take part in this ceremony. _IF YOU HAVE A FACEBOOK ACCOUNT, A VIDEO EXCERPT FROM THE BROADCAST SHOWING THE PRINCE HALL CEREMONY CAN BE SEEN HERE._ Elijah Cummings served on Morgan University's Board of Regents for 19 years, and it was one of his final wishes to lie in repose there. On Thursday, his casket was moved to Washington D.C. where he lay in state at the U.S. Capitol. Born in 1951, Brother Cummings served twelve terms in Congress for Maryland’s 7th Congressional District beginning in 1996 and most recently in the 2018 election. He represented portions of Baltimore and Baltimore County, and was popular with his constituents, typically receiving more than 70 percent of the vote and once running entirely unopposed. In Congress, he served as chair of the Committee of Oversight and Government Reform. Prior to his service in Congress, Cummings was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates for 14 years, where he was the first African American in the state’s history to serve as Speaker Pro Tempore. He is survived by his widow, Maya Rockeymoore Cummings. His column is broken, and his brethren mourn. _ Requiescat in pace.__
_ (THE YOUTUBE OF THE LIVE STREAM BEGINS AFTER THE MASONIC SERVICE HAD STARTED, AND CAN BE SEEN BELOW.)at 10/25/2019
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2019 TRIAL OF WOULD-BE ANTI-MASONIC TERRORIST DELAYED AGAIN The Associated Press reported today that the trial of Samy Hamzeh in Milwaukee has been delayed again. Hamzeh was originally arrested by Federal agents in January 2016 for plotting a mass shooting terrorist attack at the Humphrey Masonic Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He discussed his plans in detail and purchased two fully automatic machine guns from Federal informants andagents.
Unfortunately, the AP deliberately chose language to paper over the anti-Masonic motivation for Hamzeh's plot by choosing their words verycarefully:
> MILWAUKEE — THE TRIAL FOR A MAN ACCUSED OF PLOTTING A MASS > SHOOTING IN DEFENSE OF ISLAM AT A MASONIC TEMPLE IN DOWNTOWN > MILWAUKEE HAS BEEN DELAYED. > THE TRIAL WAS SET TO BEGIN WEDNESDAY IN FEDERAL COURT IN > MILWAUKEE, BUT PROSECUTORS HAVE APPEALED A JUDGE’S DECISIONS TO > EXCLUDE EVIDENCE... Nice try. Hamzeh was NOT _"plotting a mass shooting in defense of Islam."_ Freemasons _had_ not—and _were_ not—attacking, insulting or besmirching Islam in any way, shape or form. But today's AP story lede has attempted to ascribe some onus onto the Masonic fraternity instead of the would-be terrorist. Hamzeh's actual plan was to open fire with multiple automatic weapons deliberately at a large Masonic event in the Humphrey Masonic Center (photo) and bar the doors to prevent escapes. His motivation was a conspiracy theory fueled by fundamentalist and extremist ideology that brands Masons as enemies of the Muslim faith. That's a big shift in interpretation from the AP story published on Tuesday of this week. At least _THAT_ one
explained the crackpot theory that Hamzeh was espousing - that Freemasons were somehow secretly supporting the terrorist group ISIS in order to discredit Islam in world opinion. Without seeing the actual material from the case, it's a pretty good guess that this absurd notion was tied in with the standard "Jewish-Masonic Worldwide Conspiracy Theory.®" But a trial jury will never hear a whiff of it. Hamzeh is claiming entrapment by Federal agents, a defense tactic that almost never succeeds. But because numerous terrorism charges sought by government prosecutors have been thrown out by the judge, a jury will never hear many of their actual recorded conversations in which he discussed his motives for wanting to buy fully automatic machine guns. Despite Hamzeh's fully documented conversations in which he detailed his planned slaughter of Masons and their families, the charges have been reduced merely to the illegal acquisition ofmachine guns.
From Tuesday's story, _'MAN ACCUSED OF PLAN TO ATTACK MILWAUKEE TEMPLE GOES ON TRIAL'_:
> ATTORNEYS FOR 26-YEAR-OLD SAMY HAMZEH PLAN TO ARGUE THAT THE FBI > ENTRAPPED THEIR CLIENT, WHO THEY SAY NEVER OWNED A GUN, HAS NO > CRIMINAL RECORD, AND WAS INCAPABLE OF MASS MURDER. THE FBI HAS SAID > THEIR AGENTS THWARTED AN ACT OF TERRORISM WHEN THEY ARRESTED HAMZEH > IN JANUARY 2016. > THE JOURNAL SENTINEL>
> REPORTS THAT HAMZEH, AN AMERICAN CITIZEN WHO SPENT HIS CHILDHOOD IN > JORDAN, WAS ULTIMATELY ONLY CHARGED WITH POSSESSING TWO MACHINE GUNS > AND A SILENCER, ALL OF WHICH HE BOUGHT FROM UNDERCOVER FBI AGENTS > WHO HAD INFORMANTS SET UP THE DEAL.>
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> THE CASE AGAINST HAMZEH BEGAN WHEN A LONGTIME FRIEND IDENTIFIED IN > COURT RECORDS ONLY AS STEVE, WHO WAS IN THE COUNTRY ILLEGALLY, TOLD > FBI AGENTS IN SEPTEMBER 2015 THAT HAMZEH TALKED OF GOING TO EGYPT TO > GET A GUN AND TERRORIST TRAINING. THAT’S WHEN THE FBI PLANTED A > PROFESSIONAL INFORMANT, IDENTIFIED ONLY AS MIKE, TO WORK AT THE SAME > RESTAURANT AS HAMZEH AND STEVE, ACCORDING TO COURT DOCUMENTS. > MIKE INTRODUCED HAMZEH TO YOUTUBE VIDEOS ESPOUSING THE BELIEF THAT > MASONS SECRETLY SUPPORT THE ISLAMIC STATE, WHICH THROUGH ITS > TERRORISM WAS DISCREDITING ALL MUSLIMS, ACCORDING TO COURT RECORDS. > THAT’S HOW HAMZEH AND THE INFORMANTS SETTLED ON MILWAUKEE’S > HUMPHREY SCOTTISH RITE MASONIC TEMPLE AS A TARGET. DEFENSE ATTORNEYS > ARGUE THE FBI INDUCED HAMZEH TO BUY WEAPONS BY OFFERING THEM AT > CHEAPER PRICE AND AFTER MONTHS OF INDOCTRINATION. > MIKE RECORDED HIS CONVERSATIONS WITH HAMZEH, BUT NOT ALL ARE BEING > ALLOWED AS EVIDENCE. U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE PAMELA PEPPER, WHO WILL > OVERSEE THE TRIAL, RULED THAT SOME WERE PREJUDICIAL.>
> INCLUDED AMONG THE RECORDED CONVERSATIONS WITH MIKE AND STEVE ARE > HAMZEH’S CANCELLATION OF THE ATTACK AFTER HE SAID HE CONSULTED > WITH TWO IMAMS WHO TOLD HIM WHAT HE WAS PLANNING WAS WRONG. > BUT A MAGISTRATE JUDGE WHO HEARD A REQUEST FROM HAMZEH TO BE > RELEASED ON BAIL IN 2017 DID NOT SEE THAT CONVERSATION AS EVIDENCE > THAT HAMZEH WASN’T REALLY COMMITTED TO VIOLENCE. > “IT COMES DOWN TO THIS,” WROTE THEN-U.S. MAGISTRATE JUDGE DAVID > E. JONES. “IT SHOULD NOT TAKE THE SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE OF TWO > RELIGIOUS LEADERS TO DISSUADE A PERSON FROM COMMITTING MASS> MURDER.”
_U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE PAMELA PEPPER _ _(Photo: Journal Sentinel)_ Even this AP story eliminates almost all of the evidence being excluded from the trial because of court rulings by U.S. District Judge Pamela Pepper (photo). Reporter Bruce Vielmetti of the _Milwaukee Journal Sentinel_ has a far more detailed account of the legal battles that have been waged to throw out all of the anti-Masonic terrorism charges against Hamzeh, or even any mention of his planned attack. From his article, _"ENTRAPMENT DEFENSE IN 2016 MASONIC CENTER SHOOTING PLOT WILL HAVE TO WAIT AS PROSECUTORS APPEAL JUDGE'S RULINGS":
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> In pre-trial rulings, Pepper barred prosecutors' use of > about 70 statements or discussions between Hamzeh and the> informants.
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> MOTIVE IS NOT AN ELEMENT OF THE CRIMES, SO HAMZEH'S EARLY TALK OF > GOING TO ISRAEL IS NOT RELEVANT TO HIM BUYING THE GUNS, PEPPER > FOUND, THOUGH HIS COMMENTS ABOUT WANTING TO TAKE GUNS FROM ISRAELI > SOLDIERS AND SPRAYING OTHER PEOPLE WITH BULLETS CAN BE ADMITTED AS > POSSIBLY RELEVANT TO HIS DESIRE TO OBTAIN A MACHINE GUN. > MUCH OF HAMZEH AND THE INFORMANTS' CHILLING, DETAILED DISCUSSIONS > ABOUT HOW AN ATTACK ON THE MASONIC CENTER WOULD TAKE PLACE WILL NOT > BE ALLOWED EITHER. PEPPER AGAIN FOUND THEM IRRELEVANT TO BUYING THE > GUNS AND HIGHLY PREJUDICIAL. > In a 51-page order, Pepper lays out, passage by passage, which of > more than 100 exchanges between Hamzeh and the informants will be > admissible and which will not.>
> FOR EXAMPLE, HAMZEH'S STATEMENTS ABOUT GOING TO ISRAEL TO FIGHT WITH > HAMAS AGAINST JEWS OR HOW HIS MARTYRDOM MIGHT INSPIRE OTHERS DON'T > HELP PROVE WHETHER HE WAS INCLINED TO GET A MACHINE GUN IN > MILWAUKEE, PEPPER FOUND, AND EXCLUDED THEM. > BUT SHE ALLOWED HAMZEH'S TALK OF TAKING KALASHNIKOV RIFLES FROM > JEWISH SOLDIERS AND SPRAYING INNOCENT PEOPLE BECAUSE IT'S ARGUABLY > RELATED TO AN INTEREST IN MACHINE GUNS. > SHE ALSO EXCLUDED TESTIMONY FROM A GOVERNMENT EXPERT ABOUT THE > MIDDLE EAST AND WHETHER CONSPIRACY THEORIES ABOUT THE MASONS EXIST > IN THAT REGION. > ACCORDING TO COURT RECORDS, AT SOME POINT HAMZEH WATCHED YOUTUBE > VIDEOS ESPOUSING THE BELIEF THAT MASONS SECRETLY SUPPORT THE ISLAMIC > STATE, WHICH THROUGH ITS TERRORISM WAS DISCREDITING ALL MUSLIMS, > WHICH PURPORTEDLY LED HAMZEH AND THE INFORMANTS TO SETTLE ON THE > MILWAUKEE CENTER AS A TARGET. > HAMZEH AND THE INFORMANTS DISCUSSED WHO WOULD BE SHOT FIRST, WHETHER > CHILDREN WOULD BE SPARED AND OTHER DETAILS. BUT THOSE TALKS "RAISE > THE RISK THAT THE JURY WILL CONVICT THE DEFENDANT FOR HIS COLD, > CALCULATING AND CHILLING WORDS, AND NOT BECAUSE HE POSSESSED THE > CHARGED ITEMS," PEPPER RULED, AND BLOCKED THEM FROM USE AS EVIDENCE> AT TRIAL...
I'm reminded of a situation many years ago. My wife and I were confronted very late one evening by a drunken driver who leapt from his car, pointed a pistol into my face, and screamed over and over that he was going to blow my head off, before suddenly jumping back into his truck and driving off. When I attempted to file charges against him after identifying his vehicle, a weary cop shook his head and said, _"You'd have had a better case if he pulled the trigger."_ I always pitied some future convenience store clerk who handed that guy the wrong change one night when he might be on a similar bender, similarly armed, and in a similarly unhinged frame of mind. Let's all hope Mr. Hamzeh has sufficiently learned not to believe moronic conspiracy theories from the Internet the next time he spots a square and compass on a Masonic hall, because it seems that any outcome of this watered down trial will result in little actual punishment. Or deterrent for anyone similarly inspired.at 10/24/2019
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2019 NEW YORK POLICE RELEASE NEW FOOTAGE OF MASONIC HALL ATTACK SUSPECT New York City police have released more video surveillance footage of the unidentified man who threw a Molotov cocktail at the entrance of the city’s landmark Masonic Hall on 23rd Street on October 9th. The new and more detailed video shows the moment he threw the glass firebomb, and its brief ignition. The bearded man, wearing a gray sweatshirt and dark track pants, then walked away from the scene after the arson and is seen entering a nearby subway station. The complete video can be seen HERE on the New York Post's website. Firefighters were called, but the flames had been extinguished by the time they arrived. There were no injuries and there is still no word yet from the Grand lodge on any damage, but I'm told it was minimal. This famous Masonic Hall is the headquarters of the Grand Lodge of New York, and home to numerous lodges and appendant groups. The suspect may have deliberately chosen that specific date for his attack to coincide with holiest day of the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur, the day of atonement. If so, it's likely this was an anti-Masonic attack based on the commonly circulated "Jewish/Masonic Conspiracy" theory. Believers in that mythical nonsense are all too commonplace, I'm afraid. Fortunately these types of attacks aren't very common. Unfortunately, police departments aren't always well versed in that connection, and often ignore it as a motive. New York Crime Stoppers is seeking tips on this suspect at800-577-8477.
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2019 VIDEO: NAZIS VS. FREEMASONS Finding a decent Masonic program at random on Amazon Prime's leviathan on-demand streaming service is frequently an exercise in futility, given the abundance of lurid video nonsense about our fraternity choking the marketplace. But I stumbled into an outstanding documentary last week - Nazis vs. Freemasons: the Robbing of theLodges
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Mémoire Volée des Francs-Maçons)._ > _(NOTE: The Amazon version is dubbed into English and also has > English subtitles for the French interviews. The title listed on > Amazon is ‘Nazis and the Freemasons’ but the onscreen title on > the program itself is ‘Nazis vs. the Freemasons.’ And yes I > know, that Nazi swastika in the poster above is backwards - not my> artwork.)_
Over the last few decades, much attention has been given to the far sexier topic of art treasures stolen by the invading forces of the Nazi regime as they tore across Europe. But it's difficult to find much when it comes to the subject of their sacking of Masonic temples in Germany and in the occupied countries. Few historians outside of the fraternity are even aware this was done, and almost no one even talked about it before the mid-1980s or so. Of course, there was Hitler's well-known philosophy that the Freemasons and the Jews were in cahoots to "take over the world," and that "all Jews are Freemasons; all Freemasons are Jews." So there was a direct anti-semitic aspect to the destruction of the lodges. Then there was the longstanding European claim that French Masons had started the French Revolution, and that Masons had essentially designed and controlled the entire government of France's Third Republic in the late 19th century._Alfred Rosenberg_
_Heinrich Himmler_
A certain clot of influential Nazis like Alfred Rosenberg (one of the chief architects of Nazi ideology and its top "racial theorist") and SS _Reichsführer_ Heinrich Himmler had their own reasons for wanting their hands on Masonic archives. Rosenberg created an entire institute for pursuing cultural, historical and anthropological "proofs" of Nazism's racial theories and especially the "Judeo-Masonic Conspiracy." His _Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg _(or ERR) had an entire division devoted just to Masonic archives. Meanwhile, Himmler really was a full-throated devotee of occultism, and had a longstanding inkling that the secretive Masons really might be secretly hiding the the secrets to Life, the Universe and Everything in our secretive secret secrets. Once Hitler came to power and shuttered Germany's lodges, the ERR set up their Masonic division in the basement of Berlin's largest former Masonic Temple, while upstairs was turned into the national headquarters of the SS. They made odd housemates: Rosenberg's ERR and Himmler's SS were in direct competition with each other to see who could confiscate more cultural and artistic treasures. Rosenberg stored the ERR's loot at Neuschwanstein Castle, while Himmler's best finds got hauled off to Wewelsburg Castle,
which became his own virtual crypto-religious shrine for the SS' most elite officers. But the invading Germans weren't just interested in stripping expensive Masonic decor or spooky props. They also gutted Masonic libraries wherever they found them. By the end of the war, Himmler had amassed the world's largest library of esoteric books made up of more than 13,000 stolen volumes from across Europe. A huge portion of them came from Masonic libraries. Most of all, the Nazis desperately wanted the detailed membership records from the various grand lodges and lodge secretaries (along with trade unions and other voluntary associations) from every country they advanced into. The Nazis removed Masonic records and libraries across France, Belgium, Norway, the Netherlands, Poland, the Baltic States, Greece, and Italy. Those records - frequently consisting of lodge petitions and other personal information - were a treasure trove for the Gestapo and other security forces and their quislings for tracking down men through their Masonic memberships, sponsors, occupations, known residences, spouses and families, and much more. France's various competing grand lodges, whether male, female or co-Masonic, made no idealogical difference to the Nazi security apparatus. Notions of regularity that Masons might obsess over were meaningless distinctions, and every grand lodge and individual lodge room was looted, regardless of whose it was. The files and confiscated libraries were ultimately sent back to Berlin where the Gestapo, the SS, and their cooperative collaborators pored over them. This was the way that an estimated 250,000 Freemasons wound up being systematically arrested and sent to the camps throughout Europe. Because of U.S. and British bombing campaigns on Berlin as early as 1942, the archives began getting shipped eastward into Poland and Czechoslovakia by the Nazis to avoid destruction - only to be captured when the Russians marched in from the opposite direction. Russia's Red Army were the first of the allied forces to roll into Berlin and seize control of the Nazi's centralized record keeping infrastructure. But the story didn't conclude in 1945. When the war ended, the Masonic records never returned. The Soviets under Stalin were every bit as obsessive about spying on private citizens as their defeated Nazi enemies had been, and just as ruthless when it came to stuffing their ideological foes into the dark hole of the gulags. The leaders of the Russian Revolution and their successors had been every bit as anti-Masonic as Hitler's Germany, for many of the very same reasons, just without the grim efficiency. So Stalin was happy to capitalize on the Nazi's diligence - those very same Masonic records were packed up from Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia and shipped farther eastward as fast as the Russians could find boxcars and trucks. And they remained behind the Iron Curtain for the duration of the Cold War. Because the Soviets had taken all of the former Nazi territories east of Berlin, all of those former Masons still alive throughout the Warsaw Pact countries could still be traced by Moscow through their old lodge records. All of this is partially why this very topic today brings out heated fights in, for instance, Italy, when government prosecutors periodically demand that grand lodges turn over their membership records in their regular-as-clockwork anti-Mafia investigations. European Masons have the past as a grim example of how their own private information can be used against them, and it's a large part of the reason they aren't as publicly showy over their Masonic memberships as we are in the U.S. The wartime experience is also why European Masons on the continent are far less consumed by discussions of regularity and recognition at the local lodge level — they know from experience that the enemies and persecutors and would-be destroyers of our fraternity make no such distinctions. Another reason for Moscow's desire to pore over the Masonic archives was strategic, once the Cold War was in full swing. A large proportion of the military and political leaders of the Allied forces, the post-war Marshall Plan administrators and officers, and leading NATO figures were Freemasons. Many of them were quite public about it (especially the Americans), so the Russians clung to the Masonic information in case it could be used for their own purposes. After Stalin's death, that particular obsession fell by the wayside, but the lost Masonic archives simply disappeared into the massive maw of Soviet bureaucratic detritus. Think of the last scene of _Raiders of the Lost Ark.__Patricia Grimsted_
It wasn't until 1999 after the fall of the USSR that those decades-old Masonic archives began turning up in forgotten warehouses dotted all across the fallen Soviet empire. That was thanks to the detective work of the redoubtable Patricia Grimsted, an American historian who has specialized in investigating confiscated Nazi treasures, files and other lost cultural material. She is quite literally the hero of this detective story.This video
was originally a French program, but dubbed into English. At 51 minutes, it would make an excellent presentation for a lodge's Masonic education. It features Pierre Mollier, the Director of the Grand Orient de France's incredible Museum of Freemasonry in Paris ; historians Andre Combs and Sophie Coeure; Philippe Charuel, Grand Master of the Grande Loge de France; Marc Menschaert, Grand Master of the Grand Orient de Belgique; Philippe Gugliemi, Past GM of the Grand Orient de France; and Patricia Grimsted, whose dogged investigation of Nazi plunder over the years led to the ultimate return of these archives.at 10/20/2019
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REIMAGINING THE MODERN MASONIC LODGE ROOM _New lodge room at the Grand Lodge of California___
Brother Bryan Godwin over on Reddit recently posted a photo (top of this page) of a newly constructed lodge room now available for use at the San Francisco headquarters of the Grand Lodge of California. This is a terrific contemporary design, and so rarely found in the U.S. Click the photo above to enlarge it - there's an awful lot of sacred geometry ingeniously packed into that space. _(UPDATE: The room was designed by architect and Brother David Hackett. The Grand Lodge also added a dining area with bar, study and lounge with a functioning fireplace. in their remodel. Here are two more angles of the lodge room itself that brethren posted on my Facebook page since I first put up this story.)_ Let's be honest. Too many American lodge rooms have a tendency to either look stuck in 1929 (16-foot plaster walls painted in powder blue), or were covered from stem to stern back in 1958 with cheap, phony walnut panelling as though there had been a massive, nationwide closeout sale on the stuff at Ace Hardware that got pimped one summer to the entire fraternity in a _Short Talk Bulletin_. There's a certain uniform basement rec room feel to them. Don't get me wrong - while I hate the cheap paneling nailed up in thousands of lodges like so many church recreation halls, insurance offices, garages, and basements throughout the fruited plain, I'm AM a big fan of the late 50s and early 60s contemporary architecture. There's a gulf of difference between cheap junk nailed up to cover up a problem versus thoughtful design. For instance, the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania's Masonic Village in Elizabethtown has one of the very coolest 1960s A-frame lodge rooms I've ever been in. _Lodge room at the Masonic Village in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania_But not this...
_Be honest - isn't it time to redecorate?_ Maybe the time has come to personalize your lodge room, or at least admit that our parsimonious Brethren from the Eisenhower Administration years sufficiently got their money's worth from all that mud brown panelling and blue shag carpeting. Maybe at long last it's finally time to redecorate again. If you are interested in reimagining your lodge room with a more contemporary approach, take a look at some modern French and Belgian lodge rooms. Many of their older rooms were wrecked during WWII under Nazi occupation throughout the country, so they had to build brand new ones or redecorate destroyed older ones. Plus, they are often in densely packed, tiny urban locations. They have MANY contemporary designs throughout those two nations. And their lodge rooms are designed for far fewer members than most of our older temples were. For inspiration, I highly recommend two large format photo books packed full of their lodge room images: > _TEMPLES MAÇONNIQUES DE FRANCE ET DE BELGIQUE> _
> by Serge Moati and François Nussbaumer > _A LA DÉCOUVERTE DES TEMPLES MAÇONNIQUES DE FRANCE> _
> by Ludovic Marcos and Ronan Loaëc While expensive (the larger Marcos/Loaëc one has more examples), both are worth having. Both books contain new and older rooms with a huge variety of decor, plus many older rooms with updated contemporarydesigns.
Here are a couple of random examples. Not every design appeals to every taste. One man's idea of impressive is another man's idea of a hotel lobby. But in earlier times, our brethren were not shy about personalizing their lodge buildings and meeting rooms with artwork, custom furniture, unique detailing, and innovative designs. That festive, decorative spirit generally did not flourish in the mid- and late-20th century throughout the US. _(Maybe it's because we pitched the booze out of so manyjurisdictions...)_
Notice how so very much in all of these examples is accomplished with lighting. Even plain white walls can become dramatic or soothing or otherwise evocative just with new, modern light sources andalternatives.
Think about the first time you actually walked into your current lodge room. Did it feel "special"? Did it feel like you were in a very different sort of place than anywhere else? Didn't you WANT it to be? Our lodge rooms are supposed to be a sanctuary from the outside world. They are supposed to make you feel like you are in a place that cannot be invaded by the problems outside the Tyler's door. They are supposed to make you feel like this is a unique place where important, comforting, reflective, and sometimes transformative things take place. All of the above examples accomplish that in a way that baby blue paint or basement paneling lit with flickering fluorescent tubes while a ceiling fan ticks overhead cannot. Then, of course, there's another way to accomplish this besides paint, lights and furniture. The Scottish Rite Valley of Houston a few years ago built what amounts to a holodeck - a room surrounded on three sides by projection screens so that quite literally any backdrop or artwork can be displayed. Sixteen hi-def laser projectors are combined with computer generated wraparound imagery and a huge surround sound system. Virtual Reality Solomon'sTemple anyone?
Just different ways of looking at it. Next time you walk in, try looking at your own lodge room with different eyes. And then make themost of it.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2019 'THEATRE BIZARRE' 2019 AT DETROIT'S MASONIC TEMPLE Every October since 2011, the massive Detroit Masonic Temple has been turned over to the ever expanding Halloween bash known as Theatre Bizarre . This type of massive production defies adequate description. Theatre Bizarre is a giant, surreal entertainment extravaganza that essentially takes over most of the twelve-story fraternal tower of the Detroit Temple each October. Spread across eight of the sprawling building's levels, each lodge room, ballroom, and public area becomes a venue for a wild carnival atmosphere that combines theatre, burlesque, haunted house, circus sideshows, tattoo artists, punk bands, masquerade balls and other "immersive events." This is all about audience participation on a grand scale, and the organizers take advantage of a huge international movement of performers and artists who travel the world to create these types of shows. Pearl-clutching Masons who feel our buildings are no place for such public spectacles need not read further, and this will surely have generations of venerable Masonic figures from our past spinning in their graves at high speed. Some might even regard it as ghastly. But brethren who know our most significant buildings are always in need of income and public exposure to our communities need to read up on this innovative use of the world's largest Masonic building. The good news for Detroit's Freemasons is that, apart from much needed income, it draws quite literally thousands of people into their building who would otherwise never have encountered it. While the performers and acts themselves would have shocked our predecessors and rung up the vice squad, the actual attendees at its two Gala Nights are strictly required to dress in formal masquerade attire. The general public is invited to attend throughout the week. And the Detroit Temple's uniquely varied architecture and design is the perfect backdrop. The designers and organizers take full advantage of the public's vague sense of secretive, occult spookiness with which Freemasonry has been suffused in the popular culture for decades. It takes weeks (starting each September) to install all of the scenery, props, lighting, effects, and more. Resident lodges change their rooms and meeting schedules to accommodate the show. I fully realize that many Masons may absolutely recoil in horror at the sort of onstage acts this particular program hosts and want no part of seeing it in a Masonic building. 'Community standards' are an ever-shifting landscape, while Masonic ones tend to be less changeable. Many years ago, one of our local Grand Masters became quite agitated against the notion of renting out our large and abandoned auditorium to theatre groups because he was terrified of potentially seeing an ad for _"Come and see The Vagina Monologues at the Masonic!"_ Fifty years ago a different Indiana Grand Master made a very public condemnation of our magnificent Murat Shrine theatre and forbade them from booking the musical _Hair_ because of its language, disrespect of the flag, and its notorious nude scene. He threatened to expel any Masons who rented their buildings out to "obscene" productions. The story hit the national news. He was lauded by the entire community and the police department for weeks, on the news and in print, for protecting the city from licentiousness. That was 1969, the summer after the so-called Summer of Love. Today, grade schools wouldn't hesitate to take kids on a field trip to seethat same show.
I won't condemn or defend anyone who would agree today that a program like Theatre Bizarre is just beyond the pale of what many Masons regard as our sacred spaces. There's no hiding that this year's Detroit event will present (among others) a burlesque show called the _Dirty Devil's Peep Show_, dominatrixes at the _Fistitorium_, and punk-rock bands like Messer Chups, Mother Feather, and Death. I'll just say that our lodge rooms only become sacred spaces when we meet as Masons, and that extends to caves and quarries, taverns and cabins,and anywhere else.
Our most significant buildings were almost always meant by our predecessors to be open to and welcoming of the local community, to be part of the fabric of our towns. For way too long, so many of our most important temples have been slipping away from us specifically because we have failed in that mission. Detroit's brethren need to be applauded for recognizing this and shining a spotlight on their Temple in a way that the community appreciates and enjoys. _IF YOU'VE NEVER VISITED THE DETROIT MASONIC TEMPLE FOR YOURSELF AND HAD THE COMPLETE TOUR, PUT IT AT THE VERY TOP OF YOUR MASONIC LIST OF THINGS TO DO. IT IS THE LARGEST MASONIC BUILDING IN THE WORLD, AND WAS DESIGNED TO ACCOMMODATE 50 DIFFERENT MASONIC ORGANIZATIONS. INCLUDING ITS ON-SITE HOTEL ROOMS ON THE FORMER SHRINE END OF THE BUILDING, IT CONTAINS OVER A THOUSAND DIFFERENT ROOMS, AND NO DETAIL WAS LEFT OUT. _at 10/19/2019
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2019 ARTURO DE HOYOS SPEAKING IN INDIANAPOLIS TUESDAY 10/22 This Tuesday, October 22nd, renowned author, researcher, translator, and historian Arturo De Hoyos will be speaking at Lodge Vitruvian No. 767's Stated Meeting and Festive Board in Indianapolis, Indiana. Art is the Grand Archivist and Grand Historian for the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite SJ, and his body of work over the last three or so decades has been nothing short of astonishing. To my knowledge, he has not spoken in the Indianapolis area before. Please alert our Secretary if you intend to be there so he can planaccordingly.
Here is the official summons: > _COME JOIN US FOR FELLOWSHIP AND SCHOLARLY DISCUSSION ON THE EVENING > OF TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22ND, 2019 AD, 6019 AL._ > _WE ARE DETERMINED TO COMPLETE OUR BUSINESS IN ONE HOUR._ > _NOTE: WE WILL BE CONDUCTING OUR ANNUAL ELECTION OF LODGE OFFICERS > AT THIS MEETING, BUT WILL DO OUR BEST TO COMPLETE THIS PROCESS> QUICKLY._
> _ALSO, PLEASE NOTE THAT OUR FESTIVE BOARD DINNER IS TO BE TILED, AND > IS OPEN TO MASTER MASONS ONLY._ > _7:00 – 8:00 PM STATED MEETING_ > _LODGE VITRUVIAN NO. 767 F&AM_ > _Broad Ripple Masonic Temple > 1716 Broad Ripple Avenue > Indianapolis, IN 46220-2338_ > _“IN THE STYLE OF EUROPEAN LODGES, MEMBERS ARE EXPECTED TO DRESS > IN TUXEDO FOR ALL COMMUNICATIONS OF THE LODGE. MEMBERS ALSO PURCHASE > THEIR OWN REGALIA, (APRON, COLLAR, GLOVES, CASE), ACCORDING TO LODGE > VITRUVIAN SPECIFICATIONS.”_ > _VISITORS DRESS SHOULD BE TUXEDO, OR BUSINESS ATTIRE._ > _8:30 -10:30 PM FESTIVE BOARD_ > _The Aristocrat - Oxford Room> (upstairs)
> 5212 North College Avenue > Indianapolis, Indiana 46220_ > _EACH ATTENDEE WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE COST OF HIS AND THEIR > GUEST’S MEAL._ > _KEYNOTE SPEAKER:_ > _ARTURO DE HOYOS, GRAND ARCHIVIST AND GRAND HISTORIAN, SUPREME > COUNCIL, 33°, WILL BE PRESENTING HIS TOPIC, "A DISCUSSION ON ALBERT > PIKE’S ESOTERIKA, HIS ONCE-SECRET UNPUBLISHED TEXT ON THE > SYMBOLISM OF THE BLUE LODGE DEGREES."__
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(Be aware that the Red Line boondoggle has eliminated some on-street parking around the Aristocrat , and their parking lot is not large. Be prepared to park on side streets and have a longer walk. Car pools to the restaurant would not be a terrible idea. Of course, you _could_ ride the Red Line wiz-bang electric bus down I suppose, but you'd still have to drive to the Broad Ripple Avenue station and park on the street somewhere just to ride it south for ten blocks - which defeats the whole point. And you'd arrive at about desserttime.)
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