Guest_2337 : How I can buy 3 Degree ring through DHL without any problem with custom in gcc countries ?
SOERHIV : Guest_4590 knows nothing about what he speaks. He obviously believes everything he reads on the net and needs to be enlightened somehow, someway. Yes, I said enlightened, get over it.
Guest_3188 : i wonder where i can get this rings.Am in Kenya
Guest_4892 : yeah i think coz am kenyan too n need tha enlightening
Guest_4410 : Wow--I've been a mason for a long time, and never knew all that illiuminati crap
Guest_4590 : freemasonry is a secret occult that ultimately leads to the illuminati. the grandmaster of lodges are illuminatists who are all of special bloodline or descent of luciferans. the luciferans are evolved beings from another universe the freemasons ultimatly worship and sacrifice to these beings. the symbolism of freemasonary is present in almost all media, politics, infastracture, music, and film. fuck freemasony fuck the devil i hope you all suffer false light guiders
lodge488 : much luv brother of the craft
Guest_2798 : Hey greetings from kenya.i think you shoukd open ya doors 4everyone
Guest_712 : Orange Lodge #157 Kissimmee FL
Guest_4848 : much luv & joy! now big up yuself caa yu large, people! anybody pleeease upload "Too Tuff" (2009) «link» d first album by Wild Life singer outta d Bunny Wailer camp seh him blessed!
Guest_4946 : Tried joinin them 4 3yrs now i giv up!
James : Tried joinin freemasons for 3 years now i giv up!
Guest_4848 : «link» Finally, the website of the FPU is back online. We enjoy to provide you with news about our association.
Guest_4430 : There is a painting in the lodge room....one being a tree near a stream of water with, it appears, to have a bundle of wheat hanging from a limb. What is the symbolism to this painting?
Guest_4952 : fraternal greetings
Guest_2240 : I go through Scottish Rite this weekend!
Guest_4658 : final thought.....to know one is to be one
Guest_4658 : if the purpose was evil, it wouldn't have saved some. Are you religious? Do you believe in God?
Guest_4658 : to understand masonry to be a part of masonry you have to be ready in your mind heart and soul
Guest_4658 : masonry is not evil
Fellow Traveler : I am copying this article to use in a L.: lecture on art containing Masonic symbolism. I can't find information for a proper citation and so will only use the URL. I am a brother from the U.S. attending L.: in Izmir, Turkey and next year will move to Lusaka, Zambia. Thank you for the info.
Egakadolas : Love you all from Solomon Islands
Egakadolas : A day ago a friend came to me Iam from Solomon Islands and am a just a sixth generation of headhunters. We travel in our war canoes to chop of peoples head in our war raids much like the Barbarians of Europe. But when the Gospel in the word of God came we turned our lives and this brother I was referring to confess that the skulls of our dead ancestors does not provide protection. Protection and blessing comes from God. Today you can still see the sacrificial alters much like the the Incas of So
Egakadolas : The Truth is Kings Merchants Queens and the powerful the comoners and the wise and the opposite of the foregoing are temporal but God the almighty however he is defined in whatever religion in the world is from everlasting to everlasting so we all of his children should treat each other with respect.
Salodakage : The world is an interesting place. Le there be light!
Guest_4594 : I love u all brothers but am not yet into your good work.please can one of u help me join u.thank u am from kenya nairobi.may u be rewarded for your good work
Guest_411 : greetings brothers from fallin scotland lol 282
Guest_923 : Another Greeting frm Kenya, Nakuru. Jambo!!!
Guest_923 : A very interesting website!
almaghi : we luv freemason
Guest_3448 : greetings brothers. found this sight looking for a new ring. I will bookmark this sight and be back soon!
Guest_671 : Greetings bretheren
Guest_2010 : U r sick!!!! u need to see Psychiatrists urgently.
This month’s Moment, a preeminent magazine on Jewish topics, features an interesting cover story on the relationship between Judaism and Freemasonry, a further demonstration of the media’s recent fascination with all things Masonic.
Something I found most interesting about the article is the part about historic Jewish figures being Freemasons. We always hear about Brothers Mozart and Washington, but I was interested to learn about such historic Jewish Freemasons as Haym Salomon, the prime financier of the American Revolution, Hungarian-born illusionist Harry Houdini, American composer Irving Berlin.
Check out the rest of the article here. And also from Moment Magazine a related article about the relationship between contemporary science and the Kabbalah, an ancient book of Jewish mysticism, that also makes mention of Jews and Freemasonry.
Freemasons, not surprisingly, are fascinated by the often hidden-in-plain-sight influence of Freemasonry on everyday culture. Well, I just came across a very intriguing example that will have particular relevance as the world turns its attention to the upcoming 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic games.
In case you missed it, the official Olympic flame was just lit on October 22 to kick off the torch relay that will culminate in Vancouver next year. [Here's a cool interactive map showing where the torch is at any particular moment]. The torch, we’ve always been told, represents the light of the Olympic movement passing peacefully through the various participating countries. While this is a laudable undertaking, the torch relay has an unfortunately sinister origin in the propaganda that surrounded the Nazi-hosted 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany. The Nazis invented the torch relay (it had never occurred previously in either the ancient or modern versions of the Olympics) as subtle symbol of the spread of Nazi Fascism throughout Europe. [For more on the story of the Nazi torch relay, check out this interesting article].
Marathon Tower and Flame Chalice of the 1928 Olympic Games Stadium
But where did the Nazis get the idea of the Olympic flame? As it turns out, the Olympic flame was another modern invention, this time originating with the 1928 Summer Olympics stadium in Amsterdam, Holland. The Olympic flame burned in a huge chalice atop a tall tower adjacent to the stadium. The result was an effect not unlike a giant candle overlooking the stadium, a symbol that will be familiar to all Freemasons.
Here’s where the intriguing Masonic connection comes in. The designer of the stadium was the Dutch architect and active Freemason, Brother Jan Wils (1891-1972) who was a member of the l’Union Frédérique Lodge in Rotterdam.
To be sure, it’s fair to say that candle-like tower is just a coincidence. Brother Wils did not become a Freemason until 1929, at least a couple years after he would have completed his design for the stadium.
But according to Professor Bob Barney in the interview for the CTV article on the Nazi torch relay cited above, “Jan Wils, the architect of the Amsterdam stadium, was looking for inspiration . . . And so he turned to his lifelong infatuation with the Masonic order.”
Brother Jan Wils, Masonic Architect
Further, once Wils became a member, he was very involved with the design of Masonic Lodge halls. For starters, he designed the lodge hall for the Silentium Lodge in Delft. Also, he was on the board of directors of the Foundation for Rites and Temple Building, a group dedicated to bringing modern ideas of architecture into the realm of Masonic lodge halls.
This foundation promoted the notion that lodge halls should employ subtle references to Freemasonry in the underlying architecture through the use of spatial geometry — connecting lines that form stars within circles, etc. — rather than overt iconographic decorations. And these subtle Masonic gestures can be found in both public and Masonic buildings designed by the architects associated with this group. [More on Dutch Masonic architecture].
So, is the Olympic Flame a re-tooled Masonic Candle? It’s hard to say for sure. But the connections are, to say the least, quite striking.
Brother Walter Breuning of Great Falls, Montana, celebrated his 113th birthday on Monday. According to the Guiness Book of World Records, he is the oldest man in the world. He also happens to be a Freemason.
The Great Falls Tribune has a nice article about him and his birthday celebration, an event attended by Masonic dignitaries and the governor. Read it here.
Wow. An incredibly rare and significant piece of Masonic regalia, a Masonic apron once owned and worn by Brother Robert Burns, will go on the auction block at Bonham’s later this month. See the UK Press Association story here.
Ye Sons of Old Killie by Robert Burns
YE sons of old Killie, assembled by Willie,
To follow the noble vocation;
Your thrifty old mother has scarce such another
To sit in that honoured station.
I’ve little to say, but only to pray,
As praying’s the ton of your fashion;
A prayer from thee Muse you well may excuse
’Tis seldom her favourite passion.
Ye powers who preside o’er the wind, and the tide,
Who markèd each element’s border;
Who formed this frame with beneficent aim,
Whose sovereign statute is order:—
Within this dear mansion, may wayward Contention
Or witherèd Envy ne’er enter;
May secrecy round be the mystical bound,
And brotherly Love be the centre!
Here an interesting and positive National Public Radio piece on Freemasonry featuring Brother Jay Kinney, author of The Masonic Myth, discussing the mystique of Freemasonry. Part of the ongoing media frenzy over Dan Brown’s new blockbuster novel The Lost Symbol.
The great press for Freemasonry, inspired to some extent by the excitment surrounding Dan Brown’s new novel, continues to roll in. What’s been great about the recent spate of articles in the popular press has been the theme of separating the myths from the facts about Freemasonry. Here’s a Time magazine interview with Masonic author Jay Kinney. Note the accompanying photograph of Brethren in Masonic regalia — a positive image unlike the sinister images often used for Masonic articles.
This is a great development for Freemasonry — provided of course that some of our Brethren can overcome past grudges and see this for the opportunity it is.
To what am I referring? The growing recognition, both inside and outside of Freemasonry, of Brother Prince Hall as a founding father of American civil rights. I’m going to betray my own ignorance, but I had no idea that Prince Hall was such an eloquent voice for the kind of universal brotherhood and equality that is at the heart of Masonic teachings. As Prince Hall wrote
“For if I love a man for the sake of the image of God which is on him, I must love all, for he made all, and upholds all . . . let them be of what colour or nation they may, yea even our very enemies.’’
Here’s the full story of efforts well underway to construct a public monument to this great man in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The Masonic Information Center has announced this years winners of the 2008 Mark Twain Award for Excellence in Masonic Awareness an annual award that “recognizes Lodge leadership for asserting a uniquely Masonic identity both within the Lodge and throughout the community that is consistent with the Fraternity’s historic focus on education, self-improvement, good works, and fellowship.” See the winners here.
The award was named after the great American writer and Freemason Mark Twain who was a member to Polar Star Lodge No. 79 A.F.&A.M., based in St. Louis, Missouri. Proud to be a Missouri Freemason? Get your Missouri Masonic shirt here!
Nor has it been thought derogatory to their dignity, that monarchs have for a season exchanged the scepter for the trowel, to patronize our mysteries and join in our assemblies. — Ronayne’s Handbook of Freemasonry
A couple of cool, old photographs of kings in Masonic Regalia.
We Freemasons are fond of noting that a number of United States presidents were members of our Order. Some are even depicted in portraits wearing full Masonic regalia. Here’s what the various pieces of Masonic regalia tell us about the wearer’s Masonic career.
This is a fascinating image of Brother George Washington as it is believed to be the last portrait made of him for which he sat as the model. That is, this is the last depiction of him from life. In this image we see him wearing the white mason’s apron which has its origins in stone laying, or “operative”, masonry, a blue sash and past master’s jewel indicating that he had been the master of his lodge.
Here we see Brother Teddy Roosevelt in the Masonic Regalia of a presiding master of a lodge. Notice how the jewel is different from that worn by Washington. Brother Roosevelt’s jewel represents a stone mason’s square, which is the symbol of the master of a lodge. Notice he is also wearing a white apron (with another square emblem) as all Freemasons do while attending a lodge meeting. As befits his station, he is entitled to be “covered” in the lodge; that is, he can wear a hat. Often the hat or “tyle” is a top hat, or sometimes the colonial tri-cornered hat, but here it appears to be an ordinary fedora. The master of the lodge is the only person entitled to be covered during a Masonic meeting, unless the grand master of the state is in attendance, in which case only the grand master may be covered.
Speaking of grand masters, here is Brother Harry Truman in his grand master’s Masonic regalia. The grand master’s office is statewide and sovereign. Since there is no national grand lodge, there no higher Masonic authority in each state than that state’s grand master. Here he is a wearing a grand master’s jewel (these jewels vary from state to state) and a grand master’s apron. We know that this is a grand lodge apron, as opposed to a local lodge apron, because it is trimmed in purple instead of blue.
Finally, here is Brother Gerald Ford in his Shriner fez. Technically, the Shriner fez is not Masonic regalia, because the Shriners are an independent fraternity with their own regalia. However, the “Shrine” was founded by Freemasons and one must be a Freemason to join.
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Brother Walter Breuning of Great Falls, Montana, celebrated his 113th birthday on Monday. According to the Guiness Book of World Records, he is the oldest man in the world. He also happens to be a Freemason.
Wow. An incredibly rare and significant piece of Masonic regalia, a Masonic apron once owned and worn by Brother Robert Burns, will go on the auction block at Bonham’s later this month. See the UK Press Association story 
Here an interesting and positive National Public Radio piece on Freemasonry featuring Brother Jay Kinney, author of The Masonic Myth, discussing the mystique of Freemasonry. Part of the ongoing media frenzy over Dan Brown’s new blockbuster novel The Lost Symbol.
The great press for Freemasonry, inspired to some extent by the excitment surrounding Dan Brown’s new novel, continues to roll in. What’s been great about the recent spate of articles in the popular press has been the theme of separating the myths from the facts about Freemasonry. 
This is a great development for Freemasonry — provided of course that some of our Brethren can overcome past grudges and see this for the opportunity it is.
