Announcements
| Post date | Title |
|---|---|
| 08/27/2010 | OpenID - Confirmed |
| 08/22/2010 | Temporary removal... |
| 08/22/2010 | Site Clean Up |
Big Changes at the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania has always had one of the largest memberships in the U.S., for more than 250 years. But their ritual and rules are very different from any other masonic jurisdiction. If you ever have the opportunity to visit a Pennsylvania Master Mason degree, go out of your way and take the extra effort to do so. Freemasonry in the Keystone State has always been strict as far as their practices go. No written rituals—all work is mouth to ear, and the W?M? does almost all of the speaking in all three degrees. Pennsylvania has never succumbed to one day classes, or even limited solicitation. Well, much of that is changing this year. R?W?B? Thomas K. Sturgeon, Grand Master for 2010/2011 has announced an ambitious slate of changes for the upcoming year, under the aegis "21st Century Renaissance."
Viking Lodge installs new officers
Source: Interlakespectator.com
Thor Stevens (center, front row) was installed last Thursday as master of the Gimli Viking Lodge. He is flanked by fellow masons including David Lodge (front row, far right), the grand master of Manitoba s 47 lodges. The Viking Lodge No. 175 celebrated 45 years of freemasonry in Gimli with a public installation of new officers last Thursday night at the Shorepointe clubhouse. Thor Stevens was selected as Worshipful Master, the top officer who will govern the lodge for the coming year. This was the second time around for Stevens. He also served in 1999 as master of Viking Lodge which was established in 1964 with a nucleus of commercial fishermen and Gimli airmen as its first members.
Posted By Roger Newman
Updated 2 days ago
Burns Night Celebration at Medicine Hat - 23 Jan 2010
The Freemasons of Medicine Hat Burns Club (Member 2064 of the Robert Burns World Federation) is pleased to present the 4th Annual Burns Night Celebration of the Bard.
Source: GrandLodge of Alberta
Now THAT'S a Masonic Building!
Source: Freemasons for Dummies
Masonic building ("Casa do Maçom") spotted on Google Earth in Nova America, Brazil at coordinates 20 34 45.51 S, 48 34 34.14 W.
Click the photo to enlarge.
(Forwarded by way of Mark Tabbert from Alan Jones)
The "House of Mason John Baroni" offers lodging to Masons and their families from all over Brazil who undergo treatment at the local Cancer Hospital. It is in Barretos, a suburb of Sao Paulo.
From the street in a photo by Rodolfo Lomas.
I'd like to speak to that architect. Broad Ripple Lodge needs a makeover.
The Royal Society puts historic papers online
Source: BBC News
One of the world's oldest scientific institutions is marking the start of its 350th year by putting 60 of its most memorable research papers online.
The Royal Society, founded in London in 1660, is making public manuscripts by figures like Sir Isaac Newton.
Benjamin Franklin's account of his risky kite-flying experiment is also available on the Trailblazing website.
Society president Lord Rees said the papers documented some of the most "thrilling moments" in science history.
The Royal Society grew out of the so-called "Invisible College" of thinkers who began meeting in the mid-1640s to discuss science and philosophy.
McClenachan's 'Book of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite' Reprinted
Source: Freemasons for Dummies
Historic City Memories: The Northeast Corne
Source: historiccity.com The Mystery of the Northeast Corner Part III of a three-part series. By Geoff Dobson St. Augustine is not immune from speculation as to secret symbols. Frequently, there are about us alleged hidden secret signs and geoglyphs unable to be seen. Conjecture arises over such symbols. As an example, many have speculated as to the purpose of the ancient Incan symbols on the Plains of Nazca in Peru which are visible only from airplanes. Some have cited the symbols as proof the Incas invented hot air balloons or aliens visited Peru in flying saucers. Similar arguments have been made as to the seasonal Crop Circles in the South of England or as to the great Medicine Wheel in the Big Horn Mountains east of Lovell, Wyoming.
CanadianMason.ca users can now tweet their blogs or stories
I am pleased to announce that CanadianMason.ca users with twitter accounts can now update thier twitter when they write a blog or story.
Simply click on your user name in the upper right hand corner to access your profile, select edit and then twitter account. Once your twitter is filled in, every time you write a story or blog entry you will have the option of tweeting it!
Below the "body" box where you write you will find an entry called Post to twitter.com, simply check the Announce this post on Twitter box and when you hit save it will update.
Happy tweeting.
Freemasons await Dan Brown novel `The Lost Symbol'
Source: Yahoo News
By HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer Hillel Italie, Ap National Writer – Tue Sep 15, 4:14 pm ET
WASHINGTON – The lodge room of the Naval Masonic Hall is a colorful and somewhat inscrutable sight for the nonmember, with its blue walls, Egyptian symbols, checkered floor in the center and high ceiling painted with gold stars.
Countless secrets supposedly have been shared in this and thousands of similar rooms of the Masons around the world. Facts of life have been debated, honors bestowed, rituals enacted. You would need to belong to a lodge to learn what really goes on.
Or you could simply ask.
"The emphasis on secrecy is something that disturbs people," says Joseph Crociata, a burly, deep-voiced man who is a trial attorney by profession but otherwise a Junior Grand Warden at the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the District of Columbia.
"But it's not a problem getting Masons to talk about Masonry. Sometimes, it's a problem getting them to stop."
Despite all the books and Web sites dedicated to Freemasons, the Masonic Order has been defined by mystery, alluring enough to claim Mozart and George Washington as members, dark enough to be feared by the Vatican, Islamic officials, Nazis and Communists. In the United States, candidates in the 19th-century ran for office on anti-Mason platforms and John Quincy Adams declared that "Masonry ought forever to be abolished."
And now arrives Dan Brown.
Six years after Brown intrigued millions of readers, and infuriated scholars and religious officials, with "The Da Vinci Code," he has set his new novel, "The Lost Symbol," in Washington and probed the fraternal order that well suits his passion for secrets, signs and puzzles.
