by CMS Manager | Sep 30, 2013 | Articles
In 1937 , Bro. Daniel D. Smith was installed as Master. WB “Dan” (as he was known) receives special mention because he was one of the primary contributors to Mission Lodges “Centennial 1863 - 1963” history book. He spent many hours quietly...
by CMS Manager | Sep 30, 2013 | Articles
Masonically, a fool is a mature man without good common sense. Legally, he is of age, mentally, he is deficient. Dotage begins at no special year; it is that time in a man’s life when his mental power deteriorate. The fool never has much mental power; the...
by CMS Manager | Sep 9, 2013 | Articles
Oliver Day Street defined the central theme of the Second Degree as: “In the winding stairs, an architectural feature of Solomon’s Temple is seized upon to symbolize the journey of life. It is not a placid stream down which one may lazily float, it is not...
by CMS Manager | Aug 1, 2013 | Articles
This symbolic use of the three lesser lights is very old, found in the earliest lectures of the eighteenth century. The three lights, like the three principal officers and the three principal supports, refer to the three stations of the sun – its rising in the east,...
by CMS Manager | Aug 1, 2013 | Articles
"Once in so often," King Solomon said, Watching his quarrymen drill the stone, "We will curb our garlic and wine and bread And banquet together beneath my Throne, And all Brethren shall come to that mess As Fellow — Craftsmen-no more and no less."...
by CMS Manager | Aug 1, 2013 | Articles
Beyond Obligation, True Tales of Masonic Outreach A Son’s Promise On a Sunday afternoon in Corona, 10 members of Temescal Palms Lodge No. 314 gathered in the home of a Mason and his mother, and presented their brother with an award for pioneering in Masonry....
