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]]> http://www.victorialodge.ca/featured/welcome/feed/ 0 List of Famous Freemasons http://www.victorialodge.ca/featured/a-big-list-of-famous-freemasons/ http://www.victorialodge.ca/featured/a-big-list-of-famous-freemasons/#comments Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:15:57 +0000 admin http://www.victorialodge.ca/?p=219 This is a list of notable Freemasons. Freemasonry is a fraternal organisation which exists in a number of forms worldwide. Throughout history some members of the fraternity have made no secret of their involvement, while others have not made their membership public. In some cases, membership can only be proven by searching through the fraternity’s records. Such records are most often kept at the individual Lodge level, and may be lost due to fire, flood, deterioration, or simple carelessness.

Grand Lodge governance may have shifted or reorganized, resulting in further loss of records on the member or the name, number, location or even existence of the Lodge in question. In areas of the world where Masonry has been suppressed by governments, records of entire Grand Lodges have been destroyed. Because of this, masonic membership can sometimes be difficult to verify.

Standards of “proof” for those on this list may vary widely; some figures with no verified Lodge affiliation are claimed as Masons if reliable sources give anecdotal evidence suggesting they were familiar with the “secret” signs and passes, but other figures are rejected over technical questions of irregularity in the Lodge that initiated them. Where available, specific Lodge membership information is provided; where serious questions of verification have been noted by other sources, this is indicated as well.

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  • Burl Ives, American actor and singer,[26] Magnolia (now Magnolia-La Cumbre) Lodge No. 242, California

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  • Manuel L. Quezon, First president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines under U.S. occupation rule in the early period of the 20th century. Raised March 17, 1908 at Sinukuan Lodge No. 272 (renamed Sinukuan Lodge No. 16). first Filipino Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of the Philippine Islands that was established in 1917.[189]

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  • John Yarker – English occultist – 1° Lodge of Integrity No. 189 (later 163) Manchester, October 25, 1854, affiliated with Fidelity Lodge No. 623 April 27, 1855 – Expelled from the Ancient and Accepted Rite and Demitted (from all regular Freemasonry), 1862[245]

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  • Duiliu Zamfirescu Romanian novelist, poet, short story writer, lawyer, nationalist politician, journalist, diplomat and memoirist.[11]

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]]> http://www.victorialodge.ca/featured/a-big-list-of-famous-freemasons/feed/ 0 From Humble Origins http://www.victorialodge.ca/featured/from-humble-origins/ http://www.victorialodge.ca/featured/from-humble-origins/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:23:56 +0000 admin http://www.victorialodge.ca/?p=212 Sometimes we get so caught up with the symbolism and philosophy of Masonry that its humble origins are forgotten. Then a message comes back from the past – in this case across 4,000 years – to remind us that the original brethren were labourers and artisans living in an agriculturally based economy.

A recent “dig” in Egypt has revealed information on the life and the social position of the stonemasons who built the great pyramids. Those men who built the only remaining great wonder of the ancient world ate meat regularly, a rarity in those days. They lived communally while on shifts of three-months-on and three-months-off, and when they died, they were honoured with burial in brick tombs within the shadow of the sacred pyramids they had worked on.

Slaves? No way! Popular history is wrong. They were paid wages and, in addition, their food was supplied. According to Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, records tell them ten thousand masons working on the project were supplied 21 cattle and 23 sheep per day, all raised on local farms.

But that was Egypt and our study is in the building of the Temple at Jerusalem. So why is it significant?

There was a constant flow of people, goods, and technology from ancient Palestine and the Nile. Joseph led the way to Egypt and was followed by Jacob and he rest of his sons.

In later years, Moses led their descendants back along a similar track. The first building that Solomon undertook was a palace for his wife, Pharaoh’s daughter, and undoubtedly the architecture had an Egyptian influence.

Similarities continue. Foresters for Lebanon and quarry workers went on three-month contracts. Apprentices were fed, but skilled workers, craftsmen, were paid their wages in specie, or coinage.

As for the columns in the temple, they were the same as those in Egypt. The Corinthians, the Ionians, and the Doric came centuries later.

The transfer of knowledge continues to this day. Drip irrigation successfully developed by Israelis in the Negev Desert is now providing Jordan, descendants of the Ammonites, with fresh tomatoes, cucumbers, and succulent melons.

]]> http://www.victorialodge.ca/featured/from-humble-origins/feed/ 0 Three Years – An Essay http://www.victorialodge.ca/featured/three-years-an-essay/ http://www.victorialodge.ca/featured/three-years-an-essay/#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:42:03 +0000 admin http://www.victorialodge.ca/?p=194 On his third anniversary of being a Freemason, brother Christopher Hebert presented an essay in Lodge on Tuesday, December 15, 2009.

THREE YEARS

Three years goes by in the blink of an eye. But when you stop to think about everything that has happened within that time, it feels like a lifetime. I still consider myself a “new” Freemason – very early in the learning curve. But I do have enough experiences over the past 1,095 days to talk about what Freemasonry means to me. And let me emphasize that these are my own thoughts and opinions.

As well as being my third anniversary, Freemasonry has a special affinity for the number three – three degrees, three primary officers, three pillars – to name just a few. So I’ll discuss my points in groups of three.

THREE HIGHLIGHTS

1) LOCAL – All three degrees, for different reasons.

The First Degree …is an eye-opening experience that really generates more questions than it answers. It’s exciting and new just because you’re going in without a lot of knowledge. Taking the obligation can feel like a heavy commitment – in your time, life and psychology. Some leave shortly after, but most stick with it.

The Second Degree …feels like progress. You’ve done it once before. Because you’re required to memorize some work it seems like you’re a “part of the process” more so than the first.

The Third Degree …feels like a graduation. It truly is an accomplishment to have steadfastly made it through all three degrees. But similar to how a university degree is just an opening to a long career of skill development, or how getting a black belt in martial arts is the just beginning of advanced training, becoming a Master Mason is just the first step in a lifetime of learning how to become a better man.

2) PROVINCIAL – Grand Lodge at the Royal York in July. The first year (pre-joining) it all seemed so foreign and strange. But after becoming a Mason, it feels nice to have a common connection with people from across Ontario. Plus the actual lodge is a big occasion with lots of people, and interesting to watch.

3) GLOBAL – Traveling to Hong Kong and visiting a Scottish Naval Lodge there. It was amazing to find the people so welcoming (after proving myself). They didn’t know me at all, and yet were inviting me (and my family) in, having lunch, showing us around. It’s a good feeling to have instant friends in a distant land.

THREE THINGS I LIKE ABOUT FREEMASONRY

1) FELLOWSHIP. There’s a proverb that says “Life without friendship is like the sky without the sun.” In this supercharged world that seems to be whizzing by faster than ever, Freemasonry is solid and heavy and moves at its own pace (sometimes to its own detriment, but that’s another story!). It’s about sitting and talking with friends. Dressing up. Giving toasts. Sitting quietly in a room while our brethren perform rituals. A blanket of global friendship. Manhood and morality. Hanging out and helping.

2) OPENMINDEDNESS. Mahatma Gandhi said “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” More than any other spiritual organization, Freemasonry charges you with learning about nature and science on your own. Open to new ideas. Examining the architecture of the universe, and the mystical elements of the cosmos.

3) SELF-IMPROVEMENT. “One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.” Elbert Hubbard. Working on yourself and attempting to obtain personal perfection is at the core of Freemasonry. From the very beginning you learn about the rough and perfect ashlar. Some of the ways that we work on improving ourselves include: charity, public speaking, memory work, leadership, contributing to civil harmony – the list goes on.

THREE THINGS I’D LIKE TO HELP FREEMASONRY WORK ON

1) ACTIVITY-BASED EXPERIENCE. We’re men. So we socialize best around action. This action can be in various directions: social events, fun activities, charity work, etc. We’re working on this area for 2010 – stay tuned for details early in the year.

2) COMMUNICATING BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP. People are busier than they’ve been in the history of mankind. Much of this is pseudo-busy-work, but people do have the perception that they don’t have enough time to be involved in orgs like Masonry. Communicating the benefits without actively recruiting (then following up on those benefits). The benefits are NOT material gain, they are the points I noted above – fellowship, studying science and the arts, and self-improvement. These benefits are FAR more important than simple material gain, but this fact needs to be communicated clearly to potential and newly minted Freemasons.

3) MORE ACTIVELY MAKING BETTER MEN. We talk about it a lot and, assuming a lifetime of being committed to the ideals, it does happen over time. But I believe there are ways to more actively, and therefore more effectively, achieve the mission. Expert speakers on leadership, morality, public speaking, etc. Action-oriented work and training. And then bringing lessons of the lodge into our lives. It’s certainly easier said than done, but as long as we are reaching toward that goal it will improve over time.

IN SUMMARY

The past three years have been some of the best in my lifetime. Seeing my daughter grow up, being the captain of my dragonboat team, starting a company (or two). I truly believe that Freemasonry has significantly contributed to my life already and, like I said previously, I’m just getting started. Looking forward to the next thirty.

]]> http://www.victorialodge.ca/featured/three-years-an-essay/feed/ 0 Message From the East 7/09 http://www.victorialodge.ca/featured/message-summer-2009/ http://www.victorialodge.ca/featured/message-summer-2009/#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:31:52 +0000 admin http://www.victorialodge.ca/?p=162

Brethren,

Here we are, in 2009 with a new website! I’m so honored to be the WM this year for many reasons. There is a new strong energy in our loge and with the new members and officers following me in the chairs there are many hopes. There is a significant increase of interest for Freemasonry around the world. In the past week I saw two shows on TV and listen to one on the radio. In Europe the membership is increasing, in Quebec they just create a new Loge.

Many Loges here are suffering not only with membership but attendance, and politics. We have to remember that we are also the reflect of our society. So it’s normal to have conflicts but it is our duty, as Masons, to work together in peace and close in harmony. The Ritual is our foundation and our perfect ashlar, with this new website we have the tool to enrich our perfect ashlar to be particular to our Loge, by working on our education, increasing our visits, involving our newest members more and creating a better communication among us.

As the world, right now, is lacking integrity, honor, brotherhood and honesty, it is our duty to work as a true and faithful Craftsmen and to show that our hand given, and not only to Masons, is a true pledge of our fidelity. I want to deeply thanks every Brother who participated and made this new website to be alive and useful, but also I want to encourage all Brethren to maintain and uphold the Friendship and the continuous growing of our Loge.

I will finish with one thing we says in French and I’m sure there is the same in English: “…si vieillesse pouvait et si jeunesse savait!!!”…it means “…if the oldest could and the youngest knew!!!”…so our newest Masons can, they have many expectations and a lot of energy to give to the Craft, all our PM’s knows, so they have to inculcate their knowledge to us and show us the paths of virtue and science, so Masonry will keep enlightening our future generations for ever.

Thank you so much Brethren and I’m looking for this new tool.

JP Challet
WM Victoria Loge 474

]]> http://www.victorialodge.ca/featured/message-summer-2009/feed/ 0 Famous Masons: Burns http://www.victorialodge.ca/featured/famous-masons-burns/ http://www.victorialodge.ca/featured/famous-masons-burns/#comments Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:57:37 +0000 admin http://www.victorialodge.ca/?p=145 Robert BurnsRobert Burns
January 25, 1759 – July 21, 1796

Robert Burns was a poet and lyricist. National poet of Scotland and celebrated worldwide. He was the pioneer of the Romantic Movement and after his death became inspiration to the founders of liberalism.

Burns’ youth was passed in poverty, hardship and labor. He had little regular schooling and got much of what education he had from his father and a tutor who taught him Latin, French and mathematics.

In 1783 he started composing poetry in a traditional style, using Ayrshire dialect. Also, collected folk songs from across Scotland, often revising or adapting them. One of the most famous and popular poems in history were written by him – “Auld Lang Syne”, often sung at New Year’s Eve, “A Red, Red Rose”, “A Man’s A Man for A’ That”, “To a Louse” and so on… “Scots Wha Hae” served for a long time as an unofficial national anthem of Scotland.

Robert Burns was initiated into Lodge St.David Tarbolton on 4 July 1781, when he was 22. He was passed and raised on 1 October 1781. Later, his lodge became dormant and he joined St.James Tarbolton Kilwinning #135.

He was very active as a mason. On 27 July 1784, Burns became Deputy Master, a position he held until 1788, often honoured with supreme command. He had a real passion for freemasonry and believed that true Masonic friendship cannot be disassociated from the Lodge room. He must have been a very popular and well-respected Deputy Master, since there were more lodge meetings and more attendance during the Burns period, then at any other time.

In early 1787, he joined lodges in Edinburgh, where he was also very respected and in the books was recorded as a “poet”. Edinburgh Freemasons sponsored the publishing of his poems and spread his name and fame across Scotland, England and abroad.

He spent months touring Scotland, first the south and then the High Lands, visiting Lodges and becoming an honorary member of a number of them.

Burns echoed the sentiments of many of his day, calling for “liberty, fraternity and equality”, and speaking out against the excesses of the secular, as well as religious establishment. Most certainly, Burns’s commitment to the ideals of the Enlightenment came from his membership in the Masonic Lodge, much praised and damned for it’s equality, both in political and religious matters, among its members.

But besides these lofty ideals, the lodge also appealed to Burns for other reasons; the camaraderie and spirit of brotherhood that prevailed in the lodge room and the charity towards the widow and orphan. According to William L. Fox in “The Near Miss of Robert Burns”, “He found in the experience [of being a Freemason] something unlike the political and religious institutions that had kept his father in a state of perpetual frustration”(p.7). For Burns, Freemasonry was one of the cures for his society’s numerous social ills.

His works are strongly influenced by the Craft. Many of them can be considered Masonic Hymns. In every single one of his works there is a call for brotherly love, relief, truth. Here is a perfect example for that:

A Man’s A Man For All That

Is there for honest poverty
That hangs his head, and all that?
The coward slave, we pass him by -
We dare be poor for all that!
For all that, and all that,
Our toils obscure, and all that,
The rank is but the guinea’s stamp,
The man’s the gold for all that.

What though on homely fare we dine,
Wear course grey woolen, and all that?
Give fools their silks, and knaves their wine -
A man is a man for all that.
For all that, and all that,
Their tinsel show, and all that,
The honest man, though ever so poor,
Is king of men for all that.

You see yonder fellow called ‘a lord,’
Who struts, and stares, and all that?
Though hundreds worship at his word,
He is but a dolt for all that.
For all that, and all that,
His ribboned, star, and all that,
The man of independent mind,
He looks and laughs at all that.

A prince can make a belted knight,
A marquis, duke, and all that!
But an honest man is above his might -
Good faith, he must not fault that
For all that, and all that,
Their dignities, and all that,
The pith of sense and pride of worth
Are higher rank than all that.

Then let us pray that come it may
(As come it will for a’ that)
That Sense and Worth over all the earth
Shall have the first place and all that!
For all that, and all that,
It is coming yet for all that,
That man to man the world over
Shall brothers be for all that.

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January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791

Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart was born on January 27, 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. Being a musical child-prodigy, he toured the country with his father, Leopold and sister Maria Anna for years.

His ability to play complex compositions from memory, to play blindfolded, and ultimately to compose were some of the many musical gifts he had. He worked many years for the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg and then moved to Vienna, the imperial capital and a major cultural centre, working as a freelance composer and musician, though continually seeking a formal appointment at an aristocratic court. Mozart broke with his father when he married Constanze Weber, a singer from a family of impoverished musicians, against Leopold’s wishes. He died at the age of 35.

Mozart composed a number of masonic pieces. When his father received his masonic Second Degree Wolfgang wrote “Fellow Crafts Journey (Op. K468) to honour the occasion. For lodge Zur Wohltatigkeit he wrote “Opening Ode” (Op. K483) and Closing Ode (Op. K484) His last masonic work was written for the dedication of a masonic temple in Vienna on November 15, 1791. The masonic influence and symbolism was present in his operas Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute.

During his life, this incredible genius and one of the most gifted musicians that ever lived, wrote a number of symphonies, operas, concertos, masses and his final Requiem.

Initiated: December 14, 1784
lodge Zur Woltatigkeit
Passed: January 7, 1785
Raised: April 22, 1785
Lodge Zur Wahren Eintracht

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vl474-32Freemasons in midst of popularity, membership boom

By Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer - May 18, 2008

IN LOS FELIZ, across from a 7-Eleven on North Vermont Avenue, a few dozen men in their early 20s to late 80s share a dinner behind closed doors. Some wear full tuxedos with bow ties and jeweled cuff links, some have shoulder-length hair, and others wear open-collared shirts that reveal the slightest filigree of tattoo arching across their chests.

Jonathan Kanarek, owner of a men’s vintage clothing boutique called Everything’s Jake, displays a tattoo that includes the Masonic symbols of a compass and square. Another tattoo on his back references the three pillars of Freemasonry: strength, wisdom and beauty.

Over Italian food, retired lawyers and judges sit elbow-to-elbow with owners of scrap metal yards and vintage clothing boutiques. They hold forth on philosophy, the weather; they rib each other and joke about saving room for cannoli. As they reach for seconds, they reveal skull-cracking rings emblazoned with a compass and a square.

Meet the millennial Masons. As secret societies go, it is one of the oldest and most famous. Its enrollment roster includes Louis Armstrong and Gerald Ford, and it has been depicted in movies such as “The Da Vinci Code” and “National Treasure.” Once more than 4 million strong (back in the 1950s), it has been in something of a popularity free-fall ever since. Viewed with suspicion as a bastion of antiquated values and forced camaraderie, the Masons have seen membership rolls plummet more than 60% to just 1.5 million in 2006.

Only now the trend seems to be reversing itself, and nowhere more noticeably than in Southern California. The reasons seem clear. In another Masonic Hall, this one on La Cienega, a Sri Lankan-born banker, a sunglasses-wearing Russian immigrant and a continent-hopping Frenchman break bread, poke at their salads and chat about their health.

“For a time it looked as if Masonry was going into a sharp decline, if not the death throes,” said UCLA history professor Margaret C. Jacob, who has written extensively about the fraternal order. “But it looks like it may be making a comeback.”

That’s because the Freemasons, whose tenets forbid soliciting or recruiting members, have enthusiastically embraced the Internet as a way to leverage curiosity about an organization with its roots in Europe’s medieval stonemasons guilds. Freemasonry today sees itself as a thinking man’s salon, a learned society with a philanthropic bent.

The nation’s seventh president was a member of Harmony Lodge No. 1 in Nashville, Tenn. Old Hickory also had a seriously stylish head of hair, proving early on that fashion sense and Freemasonry could coexist.

“We had a record number of new members last year,” said Allan Casalou, grand secretary of the Grand Lodge of California. “We added 2,000 men, which is the most since 1998 and our seventh straight year of membership increases.” And, to paraphrase that Oldsmobile campaign, these definitely aren’t your father’s Freemasons. They are bar owners, male models and olive-oil brokers.

They are men like Zulu, an L.A. tattoo artist with a swirling Maori-inspired design inked across his face and a panoply of metal piercing his ears, nose and face. They are men like Jonathan Kanarek, who runs a men’s vintage clothing store on Hollywood Boulevard and whose retro chic wardrobe of polka-dot ascots, glen-plaid jackets and smartly pressed pocket squares earned him a spot on Esquire magazine’s 2007 list of best-dressed real men in America. And they are men like Daemon Hillin, whose surfer-dude looks and blinding white smile can be found on Japanese TV, where he plays sidekick and comic foil to the Japanese version of the Hilton sisters.

They are also all men who want to be part of an all-for-one and one-for-all brotherhood built on shared ideals, philosophical pursuits and a penchant for rings, aprons and funny hats. As Zulu bluntly put it: “I joined because I was looking for people to hang with that were like-minded but also hip and cool, and a lot of tattoo artists tend to be drunks and druggies.”

New or old, one hallmark of Freemasonry fashion is a penchant for rings, usually in a precious metal and bearing a version of the square and compass logo. Here Zulu, left, Jonathan Kanarek and Daemon Hillin show off their Masonic bling.

Hillin, who originally joined the Masons in Temecula, moved to L.A. and is interested in the Santa Monica-Palisades Lodge No. 307, one of the youngest and most diverse congregations in the state (the average age of active brothers is just 33). The lodge’s senior deacon, Jim Warren, calls it ” ‘Star Trek’ without the chicks.” “We have every possible national origin, ethnicity and religious denomination you could imagine,” he said.

Warren credits the Internet. “We were one the first lodges in the state to have a website up,” he said. “That led to a huge spike in membership.”Other lodges followed suit, putting up their own sites and drawing a crowd. That’s how prospective Mason Johnny Royal ended up at the door of Elysian Lodge No. 418 last month. Intrigued by the distinctive Masonic architecture that graces most halls, the 31-year-old publicist with sideburns to his chin and hair to his shoulders and a Renaissance lute player tattoo on his right forearm hit the Web.

What he read about the Masonic ideals — wisdom, strength, beauty and the pursuit of knowledge — made him decide to pursue membership. “My generation wants to be part of something beyond itself,” Royal said. “I want to learn; I want to participate.”

The Web generation
THE INTERNET hasn’t only made it easier to learn about the Freemasons, Casalou says, it’s changed the type of men coming forward. “There is so much information on the Internet that by the time someone comes to a lodge to seek membership, they already know a lot about Masonry,” he said. “Which is a big departure from previous generations. And it means they are more likely to be active participants.”

Zulu became curious about Freemasonry after tattooing Masonic symbology on several clients. He joined five years ago at age 39 and now serves as webmaster and senior warden of North Hollywood Lodge No. 542. He has also gone on to become both a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner (Masonic membership is a prerequisite for both), and next year he will become the leader of his lodge. “I’ll be the first black worshipful master in the lodge’s history,” he said, using the proper term of respect.

But he probably won’t be the last. Because California’s contingent of Freemasons is expected to grow, the average age of its members, once 71 and now 65, is expected to drop. By 2018, as Casalou predicts, the state will be awash in 55-year-old pre-retirement Masons giving each other secret handshakes, wearing ritual aprons and invoking the Grand Architect of the Universe.

The Internet continues to help. Zulu said that he gets at least four e-mails a week from prospective Masons around the globe who see his tattooed and pierced visage at the lodge website and want to be reassured such an alternative look isn’t a barrier to membership.

In addition to his Masonic ring and several tattoos with Masonic motifs, Zulu also sports a skull ring and carries a skull-topped walking stick.

“Yeah, I think it’s going to become hip and chic to be a Mason,” Zulu said. “And that could be a dangerous thing.”

]]> http://www.victorialodge.ca/featured/second-post/feed/ 0 Lodge Officers http://www.victorialodge.ca/featured/lodge-officers/ http://www.victorialodge.ca/featured/lodge-officers/#comments Mon, 13 Apr 2009 03:28:38 +0000 admin http://www.victorialodge.ca/?p=43 n765090391_5234924_8001jpgEvery Masonic Lodge elects or appoints Masonic Lodge Officers to execute the necessary functions of the lodge’s life and work. These offices may vary between the jurisdictions of different Grand Lodges, although certain factors are common to all, and others are usual in most.

There are few universal rules common to all jurisdictions of Freemasonry. However, the structure of the progressive offices is very nearly universal. While the precise order of various officers within the “line” of officers may vary, the usual progression is for a lodge officer to spend either one or two years in each position, advancing through “the chairs”, until he elected as Worshipful Master. In addition, there are some offices that are traditionally not considered to be part of the “line”, and which may be held by the same brother for many years, or be held by Past Masters.

Worshipful Master
He presides in the East and supervises the activities of the Lodge. He represents King Solomon and is in charge of the entrance of the Holy of Hollies. This Office is the consciousness level that relates to the Spirit. The Master opens the Lodge. His seat is in the East, three steps above the floor. He also represents Wisdom.

Senior Warden
He is in charge of the “Middle Chamber”, or the Fellow Crafts. It’s a representation of the Soul and morality. The Senior Warden closes the Lodge. His seat is in the West – two steps above the floor. He also represents Strenghth.

Junior Warden
He is in charge of the “Ground Floor”, or the Entered Apprentices. His place relates to the physical world. He represents one’s Character. Junior Warden calls the Lodge from labour to refreshment and from refreshment to labour. His seat is in the South – one step above the floor. He also represents Beauty.

Senior Deacon
The Deacons are the messengers of the Lodge. The Senior Deacon is the messenger of the Master. He represents one’s presence and readiness. His seat is in the East, on the same level with the floor.

Junior Deacon
He is the messenger of the Senior Warden. He is the representation of the “feeling”. He is seating in the West, on the same level with the floor.

Inner Guard
He is the contact of the Lodge with the world outside. He is the “Ego” of the Lodge – he admits people in if he finds them fit and proper to enter. During the initiation, he warns the aspiring member not to enter the Lodge if his heart and mind are not pure. His seat is next to the door of the Lodge – usually in the North West.

Tyler
He is seated outside of the Lodge room. It is his duty to exclude non-Masons from entering the Lodge, to keep the brethren safe from eavesdropping. He, as well as the Inner Guard, is in charge of collecting the signs and words that are necessary for a person to prove himself as a Mason. He is the representation of the physical world.

(Freemasonry – Symbols, Secrets, Significance – by W.Kirk MacNulty is used as a reference for this posting)

]]> http://www.victorialodge.ca/featured/lodge-officers/feed/ 0 Famous Masons: Twain http://www.victorialodge.ca/featured/mark-twain/ http://www.victorialodge.ca/featured/mark-twain/#comments Mon, 13 Apr 2009 03:11:56 +0000 admin http://www.victorialodge.ca/?p=34 mark-twainMark Twain
November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910

On Nov. 30, 1835, the small town of Florida, Mo. witnessed the birth of its most famous son. Samuel Langhorne Clemens was welcomed into the world as the sixth child of John Marshall and Jane Lampton Clemens. Little did John and Jane know, their son Samuel would one day be known as Mark Twain – America’s most famous literary icon.

When Samuel was 12, his father died of pneumonia, and at 13, Samuel left school to become a printer’s apprentice. After two short years, he joined his brother Orion’s newspaper as a printer and editorial assistant. It was here that young Samuel found he enjoyed writing.

On a voyage to New Orleans down the Mississippi, the steamboat pilot, “Bixby”, inspired Clemens to pursue a career as a steamboat pilot, the third highest paying profession in America at the time, earning $250 per month ($155,000 today). He became a licensed river pilot in 1858.

Clemens’ pseudonym, comes from his days as a river pilot. He used different pen names before deciding on Mark Twain. He signed humorous and imaginative sketches “Josh” until 1863. Additionally, he used the pen name “Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass” for a series of humorous letters. He maintained that his primary pen name, “Mark Twain”, came from his years working on Mississippi riverboats. It is a river term which means two fathoms or 12-feet when the depth of water for a boat is being sounded. “Mark twain” means that is safe to navigate.

Missouri was a slave state and considered by many to be part of the South, but it did not join the Confederacy. When the war began, Clemens and his friends formed a Confederate militia (depicted in an 1885 short story, “The Private History of a Campaign That Failed”), and joined a battle where a man was killed. Clemens found he could not bear to kill a man, and deserted. His friends joined the Confederate Army; Clemens joined his brother, Orion, who had been appointed secretary to the territorial governor of Nevada, and headed west.

Twain began to gain fame when his story, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County” appeared in the New York Saturday Press on November 18, 1865. Twain’s first book, “The Innocents Abroad,” was published in 1869, “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” in 1876, and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” in 1885. He wrote 28 books and numerous short stories, letters and sketches.

He was initiated in Masonry on May 22, 1861, and raised July 10, 1861, in Polar Star Lodge #79, Missouri.
In 1909, Twain is quoted as saying:

I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: ‘Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.Mark Twain passed away on April 21, 1910.

From “Adam’s Diary” (1904):

“…MONDAY.–This new creature with the long hair is a good deal in the way. It is always hanging around and following me about. I don’t like this; I am not used to company. I wish it would stay with the other animals…. Cloudy today, wind in the east; think we shall have rain…. WE? Where did I get that word– the new creature uses it.

TUESDAY.–Been examining the great waterfall. It is the finest thing on the estate, I think. The new creature calls it Niagara Falls– why, I am sure I do not know. Says it LOOKS like Niagara Falls. That is not a reason, it is mere waywardness and imbecility. I get no chance to name anything myself. The new creature names everything that comes along, before I can get in a protest. And always that same pretext is offered–it LOOKS like the thing. There is a dodo, for instance. Says the moment one looks at it one sees at a glance that it “looks like a dodo.” It will have to keep that name, no doubt. It wearies me to fret about it, and it does no good, anyway. Dodo! It looks no more like a dodo than I do.

WEDNESDAY.–Built me a shelter against the rain, but could not have it to myself in peace. The new creature intruded. When I tried to put it out it shed water out of the holes it looks with, and wiped it away with the back of its paws, and made a noise such as some of the other animals make when they are in distress. I wish it would not talk; it is always talking. That sounds like a cheap fling at the poor creature, a slur; but I do not mean it so. I have never heard the human voice before, and any new and strange sound intruding itself here upon the solemn hush of these dreaming solitudes offends my ear and seems a false note. And this new sound is so close to me; it is right at my shoulder, right at my ear, first on one side and then on the other, and I am used only to sounds that are more or less distant from me.

FRIDAY. The naming goes recklessly on, in spite of anything I can do. I had a very good name for the estate, and it was musical and pretty– GARDEN OF EDEN. Privately, I continue to call it that, but not any longer publicly. The new creature says it is all woods and rocks and scenery, and therefore has no resemblance to a garden. Says it LOOKS like a park, and does not look like anything BUT a park. Consequently, without consulting me, it has been new-named NIAGARA FALLS PARK. This is sufficiently high-handed, it seems to me. And already there is a sign up:

KEEP OFF THE GRASS
“My life is not as happy as it was…”

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