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Post by ricardo on Apr 23, 2008 22:36:04 GMT
Captn Blackadder
I can remember seeing a large candidate for FC in San Diego CA wearing green tights.
And he wasn't a ballet dancer (it wasn't San Francisco)
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Post by ricardo on Apr 23, 2008 16:17:44 GMT
Captn Blackadder - white mess jackets can look good (on a good body frame) S&F
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Post by ricardo on Apr 21, 2008 12:43:48 GMT
Thanks Bill. Things have certainly moved on since Lodge 44 (now based in Clonmel Co. Tipperary and probably boasting the smallest Lodge in the Irish Republic) initiated Lady Elizabeth St Leger.Try Lodge 14 in Galway! S&F Ricardo
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Post by ricardo on Apr 20, 2008 1:01:18 GMT
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Post by ricardo on Apr 20, 2008 0:38:36 GMT
I constantly seek to unveil the allegory and get past illustrations to practical matters in an effort to establish Masonry as an operational spiritual science But to use a common example: In my lodge the common gavel is a working tool for the EA. Now how would we use such a tool in a moral sense? Perhaps we could use it to knock some sense into deserving brethren. Would that qualify as a moral use - if not an ethical use? (Who uses a maul in the 3rd degree? Is that a moral use) Or we could use a gavel to bring the brethren to order. Would that constitute a moral use of a working tool? From the installation ritual of S. Australia, when the WTs of the EA are presented to the newly installed WM: "I now present to you the WTs of an EA Freemason; they are ... (With their uses in operative Masonry, as well as with their moral significance to us as Freemasons, you are already familiar, but to you, as a Ruler in the Craft. and more especially as Master of this Lodge) ... the C.G. points out that, with faithful admonition and kindly advice, you should endeavour to correct the errors and irregularities of your brethren {the presenting PM hands the C.G. to the new WM}..."
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Post by ricardo on Apr 18, 2008 14:46:57 GMT
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Post by ricardo on Apr 18, 2008 8:55:32 GMT
If you do not know a Freemason then I recommend you contact the Grand Lodge of the State or Territory in which you reside - via www.freemasonry.org.auYou should be at least 18 years of age. Best wishes Ricardo
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Post by ricardo on Apr 17, 2008 10:03:02 GMT
Following up to previous posts, in 2006 Cheshire Freemasons sponsored a garden under the title "The Spirit of Freemasonry". The link contains one photograph and a line drawing. S&F Ricardo
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Post by ricardo on Apr 14, 2008 12:34:53 GMT
The double-headed eagle was probably first accepted as a symbol of Freemasonry in 1758. In that year the body calling itself the Council of Emperors of the East and West, was established in Paris. The double-headed eagle was in all probability adopted by this body, which claimed a double jurisdiction. The eagle, one head inclined to the East and the other to the West, to guard any and all who might approach from either direction. Note: Not my words See article "The Double-Headed Eagle" at www.geocities.com/stlaasr/articles.html
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Post by ricardo on Feb 6, 2008 11:01:39 GMT
Hello Ricardo Can you see such a thing happening with your GL? Do reports of what is happening elsewhere filter through to the decision makers? Maat Hi Maat - welcome back from your summer holidays! I think one of the local OWF lodges meets at Illingworth Masonic Hall, but that is owned by a Trust associated with the Irish Lodge. A Buddhist organisation are the major tenant at the rear of the UEMA complex at Tusmore (adjacent to Burnside Town Hall). There is now one lodge room at that complex, not used much since many former Masonic lodges and chapters etc moved out in the past 1-2 years. I suspect GL would not object provided women or mixed Freemasons met on a night when no all-male bodies were using the premises. Trusts etc which control and manage Masonic complexes have lots of costs including electricity, water, sewerage, gas, council rates, fire levies, land tax, and then the buildings must be well maintained, meet fire and occupational health and safety regulations, maintain asbestos registers, etc etc, so needs must take a business-like and commercial approach to their real estate assets. Provided tenants help to increase net income, there SHOULD be no objection. S&F R
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Post by ricardo on Feb 4, 2008 11:15:30 GMT
Male Freemasons in Lewes Sussex are breaking with several hundred years of tradition by allowing women to meet in their temple in the High Street. Apparently the Lewes Lodge building dates from 1747. The news was reported in the 'Rye and Battle Observer' in an article dated 28 January 2008. The unsigned article reads as follows: "Freemasons welcome ladies into temple
LEWES Freemasons are breaking with hundreds of years of tradition by allowing women to meet in their temple in the High Street. In March last year the Sussex Lodge of women's freemasonry disbanded after rent increases forced them out of their former home in Hove Town Hall.
But following a chance conversation over breakfast in Lewes, the Freemasons have agreed to hire out their 18th century hall to the women's group.
However, the women will not be allowed to mix with the men and only be able to hire the building when the man are not using it.
Christine Chapman, preceptor of the newly reformed women's lodge, said: 'It all came about because one of our members went out for a bacon butty and bumped into someone she knew from the Lewes Freemason's lodge.
'He asked her how it was going and she said not particularly well don't suppose there's any chance of using your building is there?
'They put it to the members and management committee, and they invited us to give a talk about what we do and to our surprise told us we could use the hall.
'We're absolutely delighted and can't wait to start a new chapter in the lodge's history.'
The Freemasons hall in Lewes was originally built in 1747 and constructed against the walls of historic Lewes castle and historically has been an all-male preserve.
The ladies, who belong to Honourable Fraternity of Ancient Freemasons (HFAF) an all-wom en's Masonic fraternity founded in 1913, will be able to use the building when the men are not using the premises and will meet for the first time on February 13.
Robert Lewis, provincial grand secretary for Sussex, said: 'The rule is if the ladies meet the men don't.
'There is no objections to the ladies using the facilities and we have given our approval.
'The women's group is going from strength-to-strength which is why this has happened and I say good for them.'
Christine Chapman said there were many misconceptions about the Freemasons attitude to the women's groups but also sounded a note of defiance.
She said: 'It's wrong to say the Freemasons don't get on with women or recognise the groups.
'There is an awful lot of acceptance of what we do and we have been around for nearly a 100 years.
'We take it every bit as seriously as the men and we are not going away!'"
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Post by ricardo on Jan 1, 2008 2:44:15 GMT
On 4,5,7,8 January 1808, delegates assembled in Chillicothe OH, to form the Grand Lodge of Ohio. The following news report is from 'The Marietta Times' of 31 December 2007 - www.mariettatimes.com/news/story/new177_1231200784149.asp [glow=red,2,300] Ohio Masons are coming home to Marietta [/glow]In a few day, hundreds of Freemasons from hundreds of lodges throughout the state will converge here to kick off a year-long celebration of the bicentennial of the Grand Lodge of Ohio. "The Grand Lodge will visit every district in Ohio, and Marietta will be first - because it all started here," said Bill Reynolds, a Mason and local historian. Marietta's American Union Lodge was the first in the Buckeye State. www.mariettamasonicbodies.com/A dinner is planned for Friday at the Shrine Club, and more than 350 Masons, guests and members of the community are expected. The event was open to the public, but is now sold out. Visitation to 600 Ohio lodges will continue throughout the year. On the Fourth of July, there will be another major Mason event in Marietta when the Masons dedicate a plaque at the grave of Rufus Putnam in Mound Cemetery. Freemasonry came to the United States by way of England in the earliest days of settlement of New England. "A large number of Revolutionary War soldiers were Freemasons," Reynolds said. At Fort Harmar, Jonathan Hart brought the charter for the American Union Lodge. Across the river at Campus Martius, Putnam, Samuel Holdren Parsons, Robert Oliver and others were Masons when they arrived at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers. The American Union Lodge at Marietta was active even before Ohio became a state, Reynolds said. Reynolds, twice past master of the American Union Lodge, said George Washington was a member of Freemasonry. "Washington sat in our lodge meetings," he said. Masons are sometimes misunderstood, according to Reynolds. "People don't become Masons to gain advantage over other people, but to become better servants to their communities," he said. Reynolds will be portraying Rufus Putnam, circa 1789 when Putnam was first grand master of Masons in Ohio. Tommy Logston of Belpre has been a Mason since 1963 and is helping coordinate the local celebration. He is looking forward to the programs. "It's going to be a very busy year," Logston said. Belpre Lodge 609 has 230 members and meets the third Friday of the month, he said. "This is a once-in-a-lifetime for us," Logston said. "We're proud to be a Mason. It's not a cult, not a secret society. It becomes a way of life." Logston said the goal is "to make good men better." A large gathering of Masons is planned in Columbus this summer for a re-enactment of laying the cornerstone of the Ohio Statehouse. More than 20,000 Masons are expected, Logston said. "They say they are also going to feed all of us. I can't imagine how that's going to work," he said.
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Post by ricardo on Oct 22, 2006 12:55:09 GMT
Dear Bro. Giovanni
Many thanks for a fascinating paper !
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Post by ricardo on Aug 6, 2005 12:57:04 GMT
The othe of the feliship of peuterars of London.
(From the "Jury Book" of the Pewterer's Company of London, given to the Company in 1463)
You shall swere that you shall be faithefull to oure souerayne lorde the kynge and to hys eyrys [*and successors] kyngs [and queens] of yngelande and the peasse of the Cety you shall kepe to youre powre. You shall be good in aberyynge and obedyent to all laufull comaundements of the master and wardens of the felyschep of pewterars for the tyme beinge and theire successours Master and wardens. And the counsell of the said crafte that is said here or in any other place sonsarvynge the wealle of the felyschep you shall kepe and not vttur to no strange parson nother within the Citie nor w'oute. You shall knowe no priudyce nor hurt to be don to the felyshep but you shall lett yt to youre powre and geve warninge to the master and wardens therof. And all the good Rullys and ordenauncs of the said crafte made or to be made by the master wardens and Comynalty of the said Crafte you shall kepe. And you shall come to all and to evry somons of the master and wardens lawfully warned by the bedyll in their name. And that you shall not worke preuely not apart with any parson excepte he ne free of the same Crafte. And shalbe contributor to all charges within the said crafte nowe accustomed or here to fore hathe bene. You shall ayde and socoure the poore brotheren of the saide crafte to youre poure. In all thes thynges above rehersed and in all other that to the same Crafte belongs well and truly for the welle and worschep of the same Crafte you schall behaue you and kepe you soo god you helpe + and all saynts &c.
From page 31-2 of "History of The Worshipful Company of Pewterers of the City of London based upon their own records" Vol 1 (1902) by Charles Welch
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Post by ricardo on Jul 28, 2005 9:11:50 GMT
I would appreciate comments etc on this paper
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Post by ricardo on Jul 23, 2005 13:04:22 GMT
[glow=red,2,300] The Seven Lively Arts[/glow] Have you heard of the Seven Lively Arts? I had not until June 2004, when I visited the Union League Club of Chicago and saw seven paintings, each depicting one of the "seven lively arts" - architecture, painting, sculpture, dance, drama, music and literature. Each lively art is a field of aesthetic endeavour in the plastic or performing arts. The paintings which I saw depicting the seven lively arts were once displayed in a Chicago restaurant. They were dispersed, but eventually a collector reassembled the collection which may be seen online at www.ulcc.orgThe seven lively arts should not be confused with the seven liberal arts and sciences, about which Freemasons receive some instruction - grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. These were known as the "liberal" arts as proficiency in them was thought to liberate the mind. For example, a study of geometry was thought to liberate and lead one from contemplating the material world to the cosmos, and thence to the Deity. I had not heard the expression the "seven lively arts" before seeing the paintings in Chicago. Occasionally they have also been known as the "seven major arts", but I do prefer the dynamism and energy which is associated with the word "lively". It seems the expression may have been first used in the title of a book written in 1924 by Gilbert Seldes, entitled "The Seven Lively Arts" , in which the author wrote an account and defence of American Popular Arts - film, popular music and dance, musical comedy, cartoons, and popular fiction. The book may be read online at xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/SELDES/cover.htmlRecently Henry Jenkins, a Professor of Literature and Comparative Media Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has argued that electronic games are an emerging "lively art". He states web.mit.edu/21fms/www/faculty/henry3/GamesNewLively.html "Seldes wanted his book to serve two purposes: first, he wanted to give readers fresh ways of thinking about and engaging with the contents of popular art; second, he wanted to use the vitality and innovation of these emerging forms to challenge the "monotonous stupidity," "the ridiculous postures" and "stained glass attitudes" of what we might now call Middle Brow culture." In 1944 "Seven Lively Arts" was used as the title of a musical revue, with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and ballet music by Igor Stravinsky. The revue played at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City for 183 performances from December 7, 1944. The artist Dali created illustrations of the seven lively arts for the theatre foyer. The seven lively arts are also featured in Canada's largest mural, in the Hummingbird Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto - www.yorkwilson.com/murals/seven.htm What does this have to do with Freemasonry? Well, in the past some creative artists drew upon the ideals of Freemasonry. Thus Freemasonry features in the drama of the opera "The Magic Flute", and in Masonic music composed by Mozart, Sibelius and others. Some sculptors have used Masonic themes as a source of artistic inspiration. Literature has examples of the use of Freemasonry, perhaps the most interesting being in Tolstoy's "War and Peace". But these are examples from one to two hundred years ago. These days drama is employed to effect in ceremonies by good ritualists, but Freemasonry tends to be used in modern mass drama only in a debased form, as a museum piece or a sinister conspiracy, as, for example, in the recent movie "From Hell" - www.fromhellmovie.com/ Freemasonry has become a conservative social institution. Its leaders and members are likely to be suspicious of the avant-garde who tend to monopolise the more highbrow areas of the seven lively arts. Consequently Freemasonry has tended to ignore and neglect the seven lively arts, thereby losing touch with much of the original vitality and taproots of meaning and creativity possessed by members of the fraternity in the 1700's. If Freemasonry is to recover its intellectual and creative vibrancy and expound its purpose in terms that are comprehensible and relevant to modern society, perhaps it can best do so by expression of its ideals through the seven lively arts. How this might be achieved by present day Freemasonry is a major challenge. The seven lively arts of architecture, painting, sculpture, dance, drama, music and literature are important constituents of each human culture. They may challenge us, but also help to bring meaning to our lives. Freemasonry would be enlivened if it could attract and act as a source of inspiration for exponents of the seven lively arts. © Richard N this article was first published in “Harashim”, October 2004, issue 32, p. 12, the quarterly magazine of the Australian and New Zealand Masonic Research Council - anzmrc.org [/i]
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Post by ricardo on Sept 9, 2005 15:45:17 GMT
Ah Maat, you are referring to the Doxology which follows the Lord's Prayer - immediately in the Protestant Tradition, and following intervening words in the Catholic Mass.
Kingdom, Power, Glory - reflected in Wisdom, Strength, Beauty, perhaps?
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Post by ricardo on Apr 6, 2005 14:56:49 GMT
Taken several years ago when I was appointed a G. Steward. Richard
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Post by ricardo on Mar 28, 2005 1:38:48 GMT
AE Waite had a particular interest in the esoteric and in the other orders. This should be borne in mind when considering his encyclopaedia. I think both original volumes have been combined into one in the latest reprint. It is available from amazon.com but I also see from time to time at cheap remainder prices on streetpath trestles outside newsagency shops. The most up-to-date Masonic encyclopedia is the second edition of Coil's, published in the USA in 1996. The title is "Coil's Masonic Encyclopedia" and the ISBN 0880530545. This 734 page book can be obtained from amazon.com for about US$70. It does have a North American bias. Mackey's "Encyclopedia of Freemasonry and Kindred Sciences" was last updated in the 1920's from memory. This also has a North American bias. There is a version (no date given) available online at users.1st.net/fischer/MacEnc01.HTM This book can be found occasionally in some second hand book shops. Those interested in British or Continental Freemasonry will need to supplement this book with others such as "Dizionario Massonico" by Luigi Troisi (published by Bastogi), Frederick Smyth's "A Reference Book for Freemasons" (available from QCCC) and "Freemasons Guide and Compendium" by Bernard E Jones. Richard N
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Post by ricardo on Mar 26, 2005 21:43:42 GMT
The Internet Lodge #9659 UGLE has been mentioned already. Other "Internet " lodges include the following: Richard N Australia
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