Masonic Footnotes
According to Yascha Mounk, an author and lecturer on Political Theory at Harvard University, millennials in America are six times more dissatisfied with the democratic system than they were in 1940. […] Mounk explains how in previous generations, many Americans
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Are the Traditional Observance (TO) lodges as relevant for the revival of the Canadian Masonry as they are in the USA… or is the situation different here in the Great White North? Why even ask this question? Canadian jurisdictions have
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Visiting Harmonie Lodge No. 699 in Buffalo In one single night I succeeded to see and hear all the three obligations used in New York state – more exactly, in one of their lodges, Harmonie Lodge No. 699. It is
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In all the Masonic forums, secret(?) groups and public forums/fora members pay tribute to and remember the fallen hero of France: the policeman, the lt. colonel who happened to be a French Freemason, too. Rightly, we all admire his brave
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In mid-2016 the Grand Lodge of Scotland warned that the increasing number of people turning backs on religion could affect the future of Freemasonry1 – since it is requiring belief in a Supreme Being. The reference to “Godless” population brought
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I should have written about this way earlier: the Templum Lucis (“temple of the light”) Lodge No. 747, a new Observant Lodge, has been instituted on September 21, 2016, and constituted by the Grand Lodge on September 21, 2017. Unfortunately,
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It is really difficult to define the importance of grammar in a society that created a school system where you can graduate from the high school without ever having one single grammar class. (That’s what I was told by my
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We all hear during our passing ceremony about the famous seven liberal arts and sciences and most of us remain with what the Senior Warden told them (at least in my present jurisdiction) during the second degree lecture. Despite the
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One of our Masonic Districts (in Ontario) published last year a sad statistics: the average attendance of the members in their lodges is about 20-25%. I can attest that in my present lodge (in a different district) it is the
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