Masonic Footnotes
Ferenc Kazinczy joined a Masonic lodge years before he was sentenced to death, later commuted to imprisonment for the participation in the Martinovics conspiracy. When it comes about brethren from my mother lodge in Budapest and from the Hungarian Symbolic Grand Lodge in general, there is one rule and promise I’ve made that I take very, very seriously…
Read moreThe Square & Compass Club is an informal “club” meeting on the 30th of each month (if it is not a weekend or a holiday) in a separate room of a restaurant for some social interaction, dinner and, most importantly,
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Masonic Footnotes (this website) has now its own publishing “department” – Cravat Books – created to release books of István Horváth. The very first volume is a Masonic pocket companion: Weekly Masonic Doubts. It has 52 chapters (plus a Bonus
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How Masons support and spread pseudo-science I just received a pdf document which was sent with the best intentions as “an interesting paper”. We, Masons, often refer to a phrase from our books that calls us to advance daily
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Certainly, social media “presence” cannot be construed as an indicator of the intellectual level of a group, be it formal or informal, however, it might provide clues as to what is considered important and acceptable for said group. Or, at
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With thanks to my Hungarian Brothers I was invited to an online discussion held by a few lodges from my mother jurisdiction, the Symbolic Grand Lodge of Hungary. (No AFM or AFAM, in case you were wondering…) It started with
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Let’s start a simple exercise: imagine you have the “reset” button that will restart the work in our lodges when life returns to what we considered normalcy. How would you want to reset the regular working? Even in the case
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I just tried to explain to other day, during a zoom presentation, the peculiarities of an Observant lodge – to a European audience. Make no mistake, this was not an audience of “irregular” Masons, that some of us often call
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I just can not understand the arson of three Masonic temples in the Vancouver area. We have served our communities and our country for centuries through charity, self sacrifice and good deeds.1; R.W. Bro. Syd Schatzker2 As sad as
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Recently, I presented a lecture about the development of Freemasonry in English-speaking North America – both Canada and USA – to a group of Hungarian researchers of Freemasonry. They were interested in everything from the first lodges and Grand Lodges
Read moreI have studied linguistics (and literature) way before I even dreamt to become a Freemason. My favourite linguistic disciplines – branches, if you will – beside comparative linguistics, were etymology and onomastics, i.e. the study of the origins of the
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