The moon in Masonic history

Image by Miguel Mendez, shared under a Creative Commons licence

by James P. W. Goss Grand Historian, Grand Lodge of Vermont There is no more spectacular reminder of our Masonic historical and ritualistic heritage than…

THE 47TH PROBLEM

Golden section (ratio, divine proportion) and golden spiral

Containing more real food for thought, and impressing on the receptive mind a greater truth than any other of the emblems in the lecture of the Sublime Degree, the 47th problem of Euclid generally gets less attention, and certainly less than all the rest. Just why this grand exception should receive so little explanation in our lecture; just how it has happened, that, although the Fellowcrafts degree makes so much of Geometry, Geometrys right hand should be so cavalierly treated, is not for the present inquiry to settle

THE FOURTH PART OF A CIRCLE

Fourth part of a circle

THE DORMER MASONIC STUDY CIRCLE, TRANSACTION NO. 94 “THE FOURTH PART OF A CIRCLE” by W.Bro.J. D. BLAKELEY, M.Sc., F.R.I.C., Prov. A.G.D.C., Essex,…

Poetry of Fitz Gerald Tisdall

Three Fitzgerald Tisdalls in family plot.

Poetry of Fitz Gerald Tisdall The True Mason Fitz Gerald Tisdall (1812-1878) No Mason is he who is dead to the wailings Of those whom misfortune has…

THE GUNS OF 75

Battle of Lexington engraving (cropped)

The Battle of Lexington was fought on April 19,1775; the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17. What emotions, what echoes, what old historic memories stir in our hearts as we remember those days and dates. When Lafayette held in his hand the musket which fired the first shot of the American Revolution, he exclaimed: This is the alarm gun of liberty! To England the war was an episode; to is it is an epic.

INN OF YEARS END

West to east

INN OF YEARS END SHORT TALK BULLETIN – Vol.II January, 1924 No.1 by: Unknown Our Ancient Brethren were Pilgrims as well as Builders; and so are we. The…