by CMS Manager | Sep 8, 2014 | Articles
I recently came across a very interesting article titled “What is a Man? The Allegory of the Chariot” and posted to the Art of Manliness website. This article really resonated with me because I felt that it aligned well with our Masonic teachings and it...
by CMS Manager | Dec 8, 2013 | Articles
In 2011 and 2013, the Grand Lodge of California’s Institute for Masonic Studies held International Conferences in conjunction with the history department at the University of California, Los Angeles. These academic forums brought together acclaimed contemporary...
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."...
