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A Stupid Atheist?

Posted on 11 Feb 2021 by universalfreemasonry

Many a man has reasoned about faith, heaven, infinity, and God until his brain reeled at the impossibility of comprehending the infinite with the finite, and ended by saying in despair: “I cannot believe in God!” Then he has taken his wife or his child in his arms and there found happiness, completely oblivious to the most profound, as the most simple fact of all faiths and all religions; where love is, there is also God!

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Do you think Freemasonry started in 1717? Think again.

Posted on 18 Aug 2017 by karenakidd

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There’s been a roiling controversy in Freemasonry for almost a year but unless you’re a Masonic scholar, you may not know about it. It has to do with the year in which modern Freemasonry, “the revival,” began. Traditionally, that watershed year has been 1717… Continue Reading “Do you think Freemasonry started in 1717? Think again.”

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August in Athens: Summer International Masonic Workshop in Greece

Posted on 14 Jul 2017 by karenakidd

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If the traveling Craftsman with an eye toward making an advancement in Masonic Knowledge was spoiled for choice with multiple conferences this past spring, another is coming in August. The third Summer International Masonic Workshop, scheduled from the 23rd to the 27th of August… Continue Reading “August in Athens: Summer International Masonic Workshop in Greece”

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