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Post by Tamrin on Aug 6, 2010 7:16:54 GMT 10
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 7, 2010 9:22:23 GMT 10
Resolution from the NSW Masonic Light Committee:
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 8, 2010 11:56:38 GMT 10
There is this wonderful shibboleth that Freemasonry never changes. As somebody who for 28 years made a daily advancement in the Grand Lodge library, researching for myself, helping others with their researches, I know the greatest myth in Freemasonry is this one: that nothing has ever changed.John Hamill, The Current State of Masonry
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 9, 2010 6:30:51 GMT 10
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 10, 2010 7:54:29 GMT 10
The reason more Masons do not deserve the title is not altogether their fault. It's our fault! We don't know enough ourselves to teach them; we don't care enough about it to teach them. A good balance in the bank, a growing membership, a free feed, 'nice' degrees - and we call ourselves a successful lodge. But we make only ten men real Masons for every hundred to whom we give the degrees, and the fault is ours; not theirs; my fault, your fault, our fault because we don't study, don't learn, don't care to learn the real secrets of Freemasonry and so cannot teach them
Bro. Carl Claudy
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Post by maximus on Aug 10, 2010 16:38:19 GMT 10
I miss Bro. Theron.
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 11, 2010 6:58:09 GMT 10
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 12, 2010 7:23:17 GMT 10
Paul Alexander, “In Search of a Deeper Meaning”, p.26: We have been instructed to make daily progress in Masonic knowledge, a duty seldom discharged. We owe it to the institution, and to ourselves, to delve into the meaning of the Legends, Symbols and Emblems, that the true beauty of Masonry may once again be unfolded to us. Let’s open the shutters of our minds and imagination, and learn to see in Masonry something more than a parochial system enjoining elementary morality, performing meaningless rites and serving as an agreeable accessory to social Life. Let’s look to find it as a living philosophy Pondering Freemasonry, Vol. 23, Transactions of The Victorian Lodge of Research, No. 218, 2009, Editor J-M David
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 13, 2010 9:45:05 GMT 10
Bullock ponders the exclusion of women, (pp.180/1):
Bullock, Steven C., 1996, Revolutionary Brotherhood: Freemasonry and the Transformation of the American Social Order 1730 – 1840, published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 14, 2010 9:44:11 GMT 10
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