After serving in the East, what characterizes the office of Past Master (P.M.)? If anything, the P.M. has a wider range of service than ever before; there’s a world of Freemasonry that requires their experience, much as we need the Masters of crafts to mentor and teach new workers. Life for the P.M. is not fading, not at all. If anything, the world becomes far vaster than they could ever imagine.
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Do Freemasons have the “luxury of anger”? The longer one stays on the path of Freemasonry the less we have the luxury of anger or hatred, nor the privilege of animosity or of fear of any kind. The Mason learns that the divisions of people, of whatever kind they might be, are meaningless and unnecessary, and that we Freemasons are dedicated to the eradication of division and strife. Our personal quarrels and piques do not matter one whit to our work as Freemasons.
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Perhaps the question is not “Does or Should a Freemason judge another” but “How or What should a Freemason judge?” To cast doubt on someone because they don’t believe or act as you do seems to me to be a false judgement.
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Selected aphorisms from “The Book of the Lodge” by George Oliver (1782-1867)
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In Freemasonry, it explained that the “extent of a Lodge” covers the whole of existence, rising to the heavens, to the depths of the earth, east and west to each horizon, and north and south the same. This is the width, breadth, and depth… Continue Reading “The Edge of The Universe”
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This article discusses the need for quality, not quantity, when it comes to Masonic membership.
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Posted on 16 Oct 2019
by jonathandinsmore
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This is Part II of a two part series, “Colors in Freemasonry.” Part I can be found here. Freemasonry is a system of age-old knowledge handed down primarily through the language of symbolism, and a part of the vocabulary of symbolism that is most… Continue Reading “Colors In Freemasonry: Part II”
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Posted on 9 Oct 2019
by jonathandinsmore
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Freemasonry is a system of age-old knowledge handed down primarily through the language of symbolism, and a part of the vocabulary of symbolism that is most significant is that of color. Color saturates our entire experience, and can be quite easy to take for… Continue Reading “Colors in Freemasonry: Part I”
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This is the first installment in a series exploring the effects of Masonic ritual. Here the author explores the nature of ritual, particularly in relation to Freemasonry.
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This is the first installment in a series exploring the effects of Masonic ritual. Here the author explores the nature of ritual, particularly in relation to Freemasonry.
Category: Freemasons, Universal Co-MasonryTags: A.P. Sinnett, alchemical substance, Annie Besant, Brothers, Bubble, Ceremony, Clean, Cleaning, Co-Masonry, Co-Masons, Delphi, Eleusinian Mysteries, Encyclopedia Britannica, esoteric, exoteric, freemasonic, Freemasonry, Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, hierophant, hierophates, Ilisos, Lodge, Man, Mason, masonic, Masonry, Mass, Pure, Purifying, Quantum Field Theory, Ritual, Spirituality, Symbolic, Thought, Truth, Universal Co-Masonry
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