by CMS Manager | Dec 2, 2012 | Masonic History
The Grand Lodge of Virginia was established on October 30, 1778. There were nine (9) chartered Lodges known to have been invited to participate in the organization of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge, A.F. & A.M., of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The nine Lodges...
by CMS Manager | Dec 2, 2012 | Articles
The earth produces all that ministers to the needs, comfort and luxury of man, while the Heavens produce the light and heat that give the procreative and generative agents to allow the earth to produce. The square is adapted for plane surfaces, which the ancients...
by CMS Manager | Dec 2, 2012 | Articles
Masonic culture is the advancement of high moral and intellectual forces in an environment of harmonious social interaction. The expression “knowledge is power” was well-known even to ancient civilizations, and the development of mind, so-called...
by CMS Manager | Aug 3, 2012 | Masonic History
King Hiram of Tyre (969 - 931 BCE) is an iconic figure in Masonic lore for he was the one that dispatched Hiram Abif, along with many other fine craftsman and raw resources, to aid in the construction of King Solomon's Temple. King Tyre was indeed an impressive man....
by CMS Manager | Jan 30, 2012 | Masonic Biography
Sir Charles Warren 1840 - January 21, 1927 Soldier, explorer and archaeologist, Charles Warren was born in Bangor and educated at Sandhurst. As an agent of the Palestine Exploration Fund in 1867, he surveyed Herod’s Temple and conducted excavations in...
by CMS Manager | Oct 30, 2011 | Masonic History
AMERICAN MASONIC HISTORY Freemasonry first came to Utah during the winter of 1858 when twenty-three officers and men of General Albert Johnston's Army, sent to quell the reported "Mormon Rebellion," sought fraternal fellowship at their inhospitable outpost...
