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Well, I was just informed that I was elected as Worshipful Master for my Lodge. I am excited to serve the Lodge again as Master, and I have under me a great team of elected and appointed officers. I am looking forward to my year in the East and the direction my Lodge is and has been going...

I'll be speaking tomorrow, Thursday November 7th, at Calvin W. Prather Lodge No. 717 on Indianapolis' East side. I was passed and raised in 1999 on Prather's floor at a one day class in their former location, and I'm looking forward to being there. The lodge is located at 7502 East 56th Street...

Boynton Lodge Esoteric Research Group Presents W.Chris McClintock from Ireland Presented by Boynton Lodge No. 236 Free & Accepted Masons of the State of Florida Saturday, November 16, 2013 from 9:30 AM to 3:00 PM (EST) Boynton Beach, FL W. Chris McClintock - Master Masons Only Event: Four...

Master Mason Education Seminar The One Day Mentoring Progrom every New Master Mason Needs Saturday, November 9, 2013 MasonicTemple, 53 lronworks Rd., Concord, NH 9:00am to 3:00pm Topics covered: History of Freemasonry: Where did Masonry begin and how it has evolved in New Hampshire...

From today's Boston Globe, By Tyler Salomon and Victoria Bedford For more than 100 years, the Grand Masonic Lodge of Massachusetts has towered over Boylston and Tremont streets. Each day thousands of Bostonians, students and tourists pass the intimidating granite building with the blue tile...

North Carolina has started a new Traditional Observance lodge, and the local press covered the event. From the Salisbury Post today: When you first hear about 18th century classical music playing, the burning of incense, the candlelight setting and the periods for meditation, you might ask...

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St Edmund’s Church was commissioned by Albert Hudson Royds, a industrialist, banker and Freemason who belonged to Rochdale’s prominent Royds family of wool merchants, financiers of the Rochdale Canal.Royds acquired a crossroads at the highest point of Rochdale and commissioned the...

The original Great Seal of the Freemasons was based on the seal of the operative guild Masons working in London and Westminster. It differs slightly from that of the London Masons Company, but the differences are noteworthy. In this short post I will give a brief explanation of the seal so that...

The two columns of Freemasonry are well known to both the public and Freemasons. They normally sit in the western part of the lodge and are commonly referred to as J and B. At the top of each is a globe. One is the earth, while the other is the celestial sphere, or in older versions the zodiacal...

The master wears an amulet with a blue eye in the center. Before him, a candidate kneels in the candlelit room, surrounded by microscopes and surgical implements. The year is roughly 1746. The initiation has begun. The master places a piece of paper in front of the candidate and orders him to...

I am running a poll to see what my readers see as the Top 10 Events in the York Rite of Freemasonry. This poll will run until the 15th of November where I will release the results along with a post concerning the Top 10 events and their significance in York Rite Masonry. You are allowed to...

From the Worst Previews website today: "National Treasure" hit theaters back in 2004 and went on to gross $348 million worldwide on a budget of $100 million. Considering the budget, the film wasn't considered a huge hit, but a sequel was greenlit. That sequel was released three years later and...

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These past two weeks at college have been a hill to climb.* If any of you know about Computer Science, it is a major laden with Mathematics and mathematical logic.* Super, super tough.* In fact, it is, more or less, a mathematics major. So, I decided — quite stupidly — to just work on this past...

It's been a busy last few days of Masonry. On Wednesday my Eastern Star Chapter had its Official Visit by the Worthy Grand Matron and Worthy Grand Patron of Idaho. The day started with the School of Instruction where the Grand Matron gives advice and tips to the performance of our rituals. We...

Did anyone else see this tonight? A Congressional stenographer went berserk Wednesday night during the vote in the House to raise the debt limit and reopen the government. The woman named Dianne Reidy got up to the microphone and began yelling, "“He [God] will not be mocked,†as she was...

The cornerstone and time capsule to a long lost Masonic site has been found in Michigan and moved to the Grand Lodge. From MLive by Andrew Krietz: It's a moment almost 90 years in the making that was nearly lost in time itself. A 3,000-pound Masonic stone that hid from its members for years...

From the Kansas Freemasons. H/T to Michael Halleran. More...

Best of Show “Becoming a DeMolay†- Photographer: Bill Fortney, Reagan Lodge #1037 read more More...