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.
Here’s a great story of Freemasons stepping up to help during an emergency flu situation. But I’m not talking about the Swine Flu. No, I’m referring to the Spanish Flu pandemic that killed between fifty and one hundred million people worldwide — nearly a fifth of those who contracted it.
When the Spanish Flu hit in Emporia, Kansas in the fall of 1918, there were so many ill, that the Red Cross turned the second floor of the Emporia Masonic Lodge hall on Merchant Street (where it remains to this day) into an emergency hospital.
Of course it was great fortune that the Freemasons had built this hall and it was available, and I’m sure they were happy to turn it over as a hospital as per Masonic teachings. But the real heroes of the story were the female Red Cross nurses who attended the ill.
Read the entire Emporia Gazette article on how the city responded to the 1918 flu pandemic here.
[Note: The photograph of the lodge hall on the site of the 1918 era lodge hall seems to show a more modern building -- perhaps it replaced the original? If someone has some information on that building, I'd enjoy hearing about it]
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.
Masonic Memorial Temple Window Mural, San Fransisco
Well known artist Emile Norman has died at the age of ninety-five. While not, to my knowledge, a Freemason himself, he did create the famous four story window mural for the Masonic Memorial Temple in San Francisco back in the fifties.
The method for creating the window is fascinating. The process, invented by Norman himself, is called “endo-mosaic” and involves suspending pieces of colored glass and other material between sheets of plastic to create a stained-glass type window.
Masonic Wall Sculpture
He also created the terrific raised relief sculpture that adorns an outer wall of the temple building.
The Webb Gallery sounds like my kind of place. Located 30 miles south of Dallas, Texas, it houses the curious collection of folk art, carnival banners, and fraternal objects that the Webbs have amassed over the last 20 years.
The latest exhibit features folk art fraternal items. Freemasonry is, of course, well represented, but the show also features objects from the Odd Fellows, Elks and other fraternal orders. The show is called Art of the Secret Society. Here is the gallery’s website.
Col. C. Dorsey
If, like me, you are fascinated by Masonic folk art, Ebay is an absolute treasure trove of this stuff. Check out, for example, this magnificent Civil War era carved Masonic walking stick. It was carved by Confederate Col. C. Dorsey while he was being held in a Union prisoner of war at Camp Chase, Ohio.
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!
Anti-Masonry Book On Display At The National Heritage Museum
Sometimes you have to laugh. While the anti-Masonic folks have told outrageous lies about the Craft over the years, they’ve at least provided much entertaining kookery while doing so.
Thus the terrific National Heritage Museum, an museum of American history located in Lexington, Massachusetts and operated by the Northern District of the Scottish Rite, presents “Freemasonry Unmasked!”, a collection of wonderfully nutty looking anti-Masonic material from the Van Gorden-Williams Library and Archives. The exhibit opens October 3rd. For more information, check out the Museum’s website.
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.
Two students in Anacoco, Louisiana have stumbled upon a forgotten time capsule secreted in a Masonic Cornerstone. The stone,which was placed in 1925 by members of the Orange Masonic Lodge 319, once supported the old auditorium of the Anacoco Elementary School. Find out what they found inside the hidden box here.
Historically, Masonic tradition makes a clear distinction between “operative” and “speculative” Freemasons, the difference being that the former work with real stone and the latter use the tools of stone construction to teach moral lessons.
Nowadays, Freemasonry is only speculative. But the members of Tehachapi Masonic Lodge and the Scottish Rite from Bakersfield will be acting as operative masons to assist in the construction of a stone walking-labyrinth like the one pictured above in Philip Marx Central Park, Tehachapi, CA.
Of course, since this type of labyrinth is a traditional symbol of finding one’s true self on the path of life, one could argue that they will be working in a speculative capacity as well.
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The Webb Gallery sounds like my kind of place. Located 30 miles south of Dallas, Texas, it houses the curious collection of folk art, carnival banners, and fraternal objects that the Webbs have amassed over the last 20 years.
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 
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.
Historically, Masonic tradition makes a clear distinction between “operative” and “speculative” Freemasons, the difference being that the former work with real stone and the latter use the tools of stone construction to teach moral lessons.