Trestleboard
Communications from Mission Lodge No. 169
Trestleboard
The traditional trestleboard contains the blueprints, or plans, relating to how we are to create positive change within our life. Symbology of the traditional trestleboard is taught to the Mason as he progresses through the degrees.
Contemporary use of the public trestleboard equates it to a "newsletter" of the lodge.
The articles below appear in the order they were published on the website. To see the articles in order of most recent first, please visit the individual pages for the East, South, West, Secretary, Tiler, or of any other officer who contributes an article.
The Old Master’s Wages
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,...
Mission Lodge History: 1937
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...
Fool, Dotage, Libertine, and Profane
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...
The Winding Staircase
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...
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,...