The History And Persecutions Of Spanish Freemasonry
The History And Persecutions Of Spanish Freemasonry
Promoting the Fraternity across the World
The History And Persecutions Of Spanish Freemasonry
The Flower of Life – Where Masonry and Spirituality Meet
The body of Freemasonry is comprised of many types of individuals whose Masonic pursuits vary according to that individual’s personality and interests. Freemasonry has been very aptly been compared to a complex tapestry composed of many colourful overlapping individual threads which taken as a whole form a larger picture.
In our Masonic lodges we are apt to see or hear a piece of work that makes a great impression on us. Each degree in our respective rituals has special pieces that standout with unique beauty and meaning. I was intrigued while visiting a lodge some years ago when I saw a wonderful poem called “On Yonder Book” given as a charge after the third degree. Afterwards I asked the brother who had given it where it was from, but he had little information about it. I eventually received a copy from a friend from Ohio, who gives it to every newly raised MM in his lodge.
Gillette was born on January 5th, 1855 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. He was later raised in Chicago, Illinois with his entire family surviving the Great Chicago Fire in 1871 when he was 16.