by CMS Manager | Oct 28, 2014 | Masonic Poems
Lest We Forget On the eleventh hour Of the eleventh day In the eleventh month... The guns fell silent on the Western front… The Great War, the war to end all wars, was done… Many of our youth and manhood lay still and dead on the battlefields of Europe… The war was...
by Editor | Oct 13, 2014 | Video
Grand Master Russell E. Charvonia shares his thoughts with the brethren and our greater Masonic family in his new video series, On The Level. Watch this first episode, and stay tuned for more over the coming weeks. Contact communications@freemason.org for...
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 | Masonic Poems
Adieu, A Heart-Warm, Fond Adieu Adieu, a heart warm, fond adieu, Dear brothers of the mystic tie! Ye favored, ye enlightened few, Companions of my social joy! Tho’ I to foreign lands must hie, Pursuing fortune’s sliddery ba’,–– With melting heart and...
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 | Dec 8, 2013 | Masonic Poems
I met a dear old man today, who wore a Masonic pin, It was old and faded like the man, It's edges were worn quite thin. I approached the park bench where he sat, To give the old brother his due, I said, "I see you've traveled east," He said, "I have,...
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,...
