Author: Clark

July 5, 2021 Clark No comments exist

Author Unknown – via Facebook & Sunday Masonic Papers (May 24/20) So there is this restaurant chain with locations throughout North America. Its slogan is a pretty catchy one and the chain’s management uses it on a daily basis to motivate staff and to recruit new patrons to the chain’s thousands of locations. The slogan…

July 5, 2021 Clark No comments exist

There are many and varies theories on the “Length of The Cable Tow”, especially with the current situation with Zoom meetings across the globe.  However the quote below, from  “Introduction To Freemasonry, The Fellowcraft Degree” by Carl H. Claudy,  is a good reminder of the basic tenants of the gentle craft.   CABLE TOW  “…

May 10, 2021 Clark No comments exist

A presentation by Bro. Keith V. Godfrey Prince of Wales Lodge No. 100 October 17, 2007 to a Lodge of Education & Research and copied from“The Educator” website (May 8, 2021). Freemasonry is known as a “Moral. Ethical Education society” To that I would add “spiritual”. Tonight I will try to explain why I think that Masonry…

December 28, 2020 Clark No comments exist

Collated from numerous sources circa 2011 by MW Bro T.E. “Gene” Carnes, Grand Master of Masons of Texas 2011. Have you ever wondered if there was some lesson or meaning you missed when you took your first degree? Think about it for a minute I’m sure there were actually times when you did wonder if…

November 6, 2020 Clark No comments exist

GREAT LEADERS EAT LAST By: R W Bro Richard Lacoursiere JRC Evans Lecturer 2020-2021   This is the 54th year that the JRC Evans Memorial Lecture has been presented since being inaugurated in 1966.  At this time I believe it fitting that each of us should know something of this Great Lecturer and Freemason to…

September 6, 2020 Clark No comments exist

(This is a paper I amended for presentation at Beacon #190 some years ago.  The original author was Dan Doron and was found on-line:  Bro. C. Johnston PM)         From time to time it’s not a bad idea to stop and think a bit. This is what I’d like to do this evening: to share…

September 2, 2020 Clark No comments exist

by Bro. William Aemisegger Brother Aemisegger was raised in September of 2013 and is a member of both Hernando-Bushnel No. 30 in Florida and Utica-Macomb No. 64 in Davis Michigan. He works at giving back to the fraternity all that it’s given him.   Did we really make our new Brother better? Have we prepared…

September 2, 2020 Clark No comments exist

Brethren, Herein are the comments, written by Arturo de Hoyas, the Grand Historian/Grand Archivist of the US Southern Jurisdiction, in response to the recent toppling of the statue of the esteemed Sovereign Grand Commander of the Southern Jurisdiction of the USA, Albert Pike by D.C. protesters. That we may not be confused by this willful…

August 2, 2020 Clark No comments exist

Inverted Red Triangle Worn By Imprisoned Freemasons   We’ve all learned in history classes about World War II and how people of the Jewish faith were rounded up, imprisoned, and brutally tortured and killed by the Nazis, but what most people don’t know is that the Freemasons were among those rounded up and systematically murdered…

July 26, 2020 Clark No comments exist

Writtn by: W.Bro. Bill Hickey, Boulder, CO So … is everyone “ZOOMed” out by now?  I mean, after all, it’s pretty much been the ONLY way any of us have been able communicate and to participate in any kind of Masonic meeting activities for the past couple of months.  And, it’s not just the U.S….