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
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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
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Guest_671 : Greetings bretheren
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English Judges May Stay Mum On Masonic Affiliation
The UK Justice Secretary, Jack Straw, has announced that judges in the UK will no longer be required to make known publicly their Masonic affiliations. This overturns a judicial policy, in place since 1998, that sought to allay alleged public concern over Masonic cronyism having improper influence in court cases in which a Freemason appeared before a Freemason judge.
Not surprisingly, this policy reversal has been met with skepticism amongst the anti-masonry crowd, with some claiming that it is proof of a wider Masonic conspiracy that includes Jack Straw himself.
The reason for the change, however, has less to do with conspiracies and more to do with a European Court of Human Rights (ECHT) ruling earlier this year. The court ruled in favor of the Grand Orient of Italy in its lawsuit challenging an Italian law that required governmental appointees to declare their Masonic affiliation. In its decision the court cited Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights, a provision that guarantees freedom of association and was originally intended, in part, to ensure the ability to organize labor unions.
Nice summary of the European Court of Human Rights decision.
Read the UK Guardian story on the change of English judicial policy here.
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.
I’m delighted to announce that Masonic Regalia is now available in fifty languages thanks to some amazing translation software available from Wordpress, the blogging platform I use here.
While I’ve known for some time that this page enjoys a wide international audience, I’ve recently discovered that many of my visitors are relying on Google to translate the pages they wish to see. It occurred to me that if my pages were already translated when indexed by Google, the site might get an even larger international Masonic readership because the translated version would appear in the non-English search results rather than in English to be translated by the reader before browsing.
What is so cool about the software I chose to translate the Masonic material here is that once it has been translated, the software creates a whole new page with the translation as part of the site’s permanent sitemap. Thus Google can index and cache all of the translated material as well as the native English version.
Aside from my nerdy enjoyment of great traffic to this site, I’m especially delighted with this development as I think it promotes one of the great aims of Freemasonry: reconciling true friendship from those who must have remained at perpetual distance.
I came across a particularly unfair Masonic slur today in the comments section of a news story that I thought deserved special mention because it seems to have gained some traction in the Google search engine: Silent Destroyers.
The news article wasn’t too exciting — another small town UK paper reporting on the (shocking!) fact that there are Freemasons on the town council (fifteen percent of the members!).
I’ve seen a number of these stories of late, a likely consequence of the Dan Brown excitement. Folks, it seems, are quite curious to know whether there is a secret ruling cabal right under their noses in their home towns. What the articles usually end up reporting are the (accurate and un-sexy) facts that 1) of course Freemasons are involved in local politics because they are often hardworking and successful pillars of the community, 2) the influence of Freemasonry, such as there ever was, has declined in recent years due to its aging and contracting demographic, 3) the biggest impact of Freemasonry isn’t secret nepotism but quiet charity.
What really caught my attention, though, was the comment section. As any reader of Masonic web material can attest, the comment sections are usually where our, well, less enlightened friends tend to spout off. One commentator suggested that everyone do a Google search for the term “Silent Destroyers”. I of course did and came up with quite interesting results. Out of27,400,000 (!) pages indexed by Google containing the words “silent destroyers” the first two text links on the first page were virulent anti-Masonic sites that use the phrase to describe the old anti-masonic chestnuts of Satanism and undue influence.
Further, when I did a Google image search for the term, the first images where Masonic lodge rooms and buildings.
Now, what surprised me with this search is that whenever I’d previously heard the phrase “silent destroyers” it’s *always* been in connection with termites. And in fact, stuff about termites immediately followed the anti-masonic links. This is curious because insect pest control is a big industry — one would think that the phrase “silent destroyers,” as clearly associated as it is with termites, would have called up the surely more reputable pest control websites first and foremost.
The fact that it didn’t speaks to the popularity in Google’s eyes of these anti-Masonic sites. And how does Google determine which pages rank higher? The method for ranking at Google is a closely guarded secret, but it is known that one of the primary factors is how many other sites link to the site in question. Clearly a lot of people are linking to these anti-Masonic sites.
Solomon's Temple. Freemasonry has always been about building!
Normally anti-Masonic stuff rolls off my back. In this case, though, it irked me because Freemasonry has always been about building up, not tearing down. I simply couldn’t let the irony of linking us on Google to termites stand.
So, what can you do about it? I say fight fire with fire. I would love to see this rebuttal to the Secret Destroyer slur rise to the top of Google for the search term and displace the hateful sites. How can we achieve this? Easy. If you don’t have a website on which you can link to this article, use the share button below the article to share this article on your favorite social media — whether it be Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Reddit or whatever. Google loves those sites and will boost the ranking of any site receiving links from them. It only takes a second, so please share this article with the button below.
If you have a website, link to this article at the above URL using “secret destroyers” as the anchor text for the link. This will also have the happy side effect of bumping the termites photo above ahead of the anti-Masonic stuff in the Google image search.
Let’s give termites their due place as the real secret destroyers! (And I’ll follow up with further postings to see where we are on Google!)
So this explains everything about my misspent youth: MTV has been a secret tool of the Freemasons to promote Satanism all along. The proof (and unintentional hilarity) appears earnestly in this video.
Well, this is sad news (and I apologize for having two downer posts in a row!) but it must be reported. After over a hundred years, the venerable Masonic Home run by the Grand Lodge of New Hampshire is closing for lack of funds and occupancy. This is especially unfortunate because the Grand Lodge had recently chartered a special lodge and lodge room there in the facility so that lodges from around the state could visit and hold meetings there for the resident Brethren without special dispensation from Grand Lodge — and folks were quite enthusiastic about is. Read more about is here.
As if we needed more proof that Freemasonry has suddenly become cool, the latest Second Life craze, according to Wired magazine, is the proud wearing of Masonic regalia fezzes by the avatars of female Second Lifers!
If you’re like me and enjoy looking around old graveyards, you’ve probably noticed that many of the older gravestones have intriguing symbols carved on them. Often, the symbol is the familiar Square and Compasses of Masonic regalia indicating that the person buried there was a Freemason.
Less familiar, however, are the symbols of other fraternal orders that flourished around the turn of the twentieth century, the golden age of American fraternalism, but are not as well known today, such as the Oddfellows
and Woodmen of the World.
For a more exaustive look at old gravestones, check out this page about gravestone symbolism. It includes not only familiar and obscure Masonic and other fraternal gravestone symbolism, but also other antiquated symbols whose meanings are no longer common knowledge.
It is widely known that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a Freemason, having been initiated into the “Zur Wohltätigkeit” (“Beneficence”) Lodge of Vienna in 1784. What is not as well known is that Brother Mozart wrote music specifically for Masonic ceremonies. These pieces are seldom heard, even in a non-masonic context.
But to hear one performed as part of the actual Masonic ceremony for which it was intended is, for the general public, almost unheard of. This is why it is so exciting to announce that the highly regarded, fifty voice SATB Chorus, Portsmouth Pro Musica, will perform Mozart’s Officer Installation Anthem during the officer installation ceremony of St. John’s Lodge, #1, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in December.
This is a very rare (almost unprecedented) opportunity to hear the piece as Mozart intended, that is, as part of the ceremony to install Masonic officers, in their full Masonic regalia, into their respective chairs of office. The pageantry and music will be truly fascinating to Masons and non-masons alike.
The details:
The Installation of St. John’s Lodge, #1, Masonic Officers, December, 6th, at 2:00 pm EST, Masonic Temple, 351 Middle Street, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. This free event is semi-public, meaning that reservations will be required. Please contact alan_ammann@hotmail.com for reservations.
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