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…

Ideal of a Freemason

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If you see a man who quietly and modestly moves in the sphere of his life; who, without blemish, fulfils his duty as a man, a subject, a husband and a father; who is pious without hypocrisy, benevolent without ostentation, and aids his fellowman without self-interest; whose heart beats warm for friendship, whose serene mind is open for licensed pleasures, who in vicissitudes does not despair, nor in fortune will be presumptuous, and who will be resolute in the hour of danger;