Lesser Lights

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,...

Banquet Night

"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."...

Beyond Obligation, True Tales of Masonic Outreach

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....

The Letter "G"

The Letter “G” is a symbol of geometry and, also, of deity. The letter “G” reminds us that our every act is done in the sight of God, and that Divine Providence is over all of our lives. Man is reminded that God is in all nature and in every man. Our life and all its...

Freemasonry in Maine

On March 20, 1762, the Right Worshipful Jeremy Gridley, Provincial Grand Master for North America, issued his deputation to Brother Alexander Ross of Falmouth, empowering him to congregate the brethren in that vicinity into a regular Lodge with himself as Master....