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A couple of weeks ago I asked the question whether your lodge would reset to a new normal when the conditions allow it to meet again. If you missed the post you can read it here. After I wrote the post, I began to think about how the pandemic has changed me, and as a...
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What do you mean, I can’t visit your lodge? Isn’t a lodge, any lodge, supposed to be a place welcoming all Masons? Sure it is. You are more than welcome to come to the lodge I belong to. I’m just saying when you enter the lodge room, you may be...
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The Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca, in a letter to his friend Paulinus said this: “It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow the accomplishment of...
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WB W.L. Wilmshurst in his article, The Ceremony of Initiation. Analysis and Commentary wrote: “The First-Degree Ceremony used on the reception of a Candidate into the Craft is designed to introduce him to the first stage of a system of knowledge and...
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In preparation for a MM degree I was rehearsing my small part which, in the lecture, explains the steps on the Master’s carpet. I began to think about the line that explains in our youth we should “…occupy our minds in the attainment of useful knowledge.” The...