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!
Category: Freemasons, Universal Co-MasonryTags: Albert Einstein, Antients, Atheism, Atheist, Belief, Bible, Book of Constitutions, Constitution, Declaration, Define, Definition, Divinity, Dr. Anderson and the Charges of a Freemason, Fellowcraft, Fraternity, Freemason, Freemasonry, Freemasons, God, Grand Orient de France, Great Architect, Higher Power, Holy Bible, James Anderson, Masonry, Masons, Moderns, Old Charges, Regius Poem, Science, St. John's Day, Stupid Atheist, UGLE, United Grand Lodge of England, Universal Religion, universe
Posted on 20 Oct 2017
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Neil Wynes Morse has been looking for a missing paper written by a giant in Masonic scholarship during the first half of the 20th Century but that was, nonetheless, rejected for publication shortly before the author’s death. He’s not the only one looking. However,… Continue Reading “Neil Morse and the Lost Knoop Paper”
Category: FreemasonsTags: Ars Quatuor Coronaturum, Brother Neil Wynes Morse, Douglas Knoop, Dr. Anderson and the Charges of a Freemason, Early Masonic Catechisms, Freemason, Freemasonry, Freemasons, Knoop Lecture, Knoop Prize, Manchester Association for Masonic Research, Manchester University, Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076’, The Genesis of Freemasonry, The University of Sheffield, UGLE, University Lodge No. 3911, World War II
Posted on 27 Jun 2017
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A peculiar and apparently ongoing protest at an online Masonic “University,” of which a sort-of Craft-based activist group reportedly has taken over and is making demands, has raised an unexpected question: Who Owns Freemasonry? The question came up in The Past Bastard and it’s… Continue Reading “Who Owns Freemasonry?”
Category: Universal Co-MasonryTags: Brothers, Christopher Columbus, Doug Darjeeling, Edinburgh Lodge No. 1, Freemason University, Freemasonry, George Lodge of Ohio, John F. Tolle, Kilwinning, Masonry, Scottish Rite Justice Warriors, SRJWs, The Past Bastard, U.S. Patent Office, UGLE, United Grand Lodge of England