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Author: Freethinker

New book: Weekly Masonic Doubts

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August 2, 2023August 19, 2023
Freethinker
Texts, Book Reviews

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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Mackey the Druid

Druids
December 15, 2022
Freethinker
Texts, History, Journey

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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The Deviation

January 7, 2022
Freethinker
History, Divine, Texts

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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You are not guarding the West Gate!

Frere terrible
May 7, 2021
Freethinker
Tools, Journey, Texts

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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My vision for the postpandemic Freemasonry

April 27, 2021
Freethinker
Texts, Journey

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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The case of the Observant lodges and the European Masons

Old Scottish tomb
April 8, 2021
Freethinker
Texts, Journey

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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The house is burning…

Vancouver fire
April 2, 2021
Freethinker
Journey

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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Zoom presentation for Hungarian Masonic researchers

March 15, 2021March 19, 2021
Freethinker
History, Journey

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

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The linguistics of Masonry

January 27, 2021January 27, 2023
Freethinker
Texts, Journey

I 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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100 years from now

November 22, 2020November 22, 2020
Freethinker
Texts, Journey

There is this excellent initiative of the Grand Lodge of Georgia (not the US state but the real one: the country, formerly also known as Gruzia): since the COVID restrictions started they organized a series of high quality online lectures

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