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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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The Tracing Boards of John Harris: A Masonic Legacy

Posted on 26 Jan 2018 by Pamela McDown

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When I joined Freemasonry, I realized the ceremonies were full of symbols meant to allude to greater meanings. One of the items that caught my attention during my initiation was the tracing board or picture in the Lodge room which displays the symbols for the… Continue Reading “The Tracing Boards of John Harris: A Masonic Legacy”

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Who Owns Freemasonry?

Posted on 27 Jun 2017 by karenakidd

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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?”

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