Masonic Footnotes
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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In the past months I have been presenting my TEMPLE IN THE AIR lecture in different online forums, like the prestigious VOOSA (Virtual Order of Sapere Aude) which will soon celebrate its 100th online “meeting”. All the Zoom lectures are
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Observant and observance, Traditional Observant and simply Observant, and the archaic Strict Observance – what are all these confusing terms and what they mean? Are they all the same? No, they are not. Let’s have a brief retrospective of the
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If this book wasn’t written, we should create it immediately. Whenever somebody asked for recommendation for an informative book about Freemasonry, I just scratched my head. Especially, if the person was not interested to join but to learn, or when
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The public educational system, in the past several decades, became utilitarian, i.e. more oriented toward practicalities and less towards general humanities because those were and still are considered, by the utilitarian “philosophers”, as non-essential for human progress in the 20th
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This was the introductory sentence of my lecture presented in my Observant Lodge: Templum Lucis No. 747. Last week, at our regular meeting of September (remember, we meet only in the months with equinox and solstice!) I had the honour
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Most of us will remember the three (Christian) virtues mentioned in the JW lecture during our initiation: Faith, Hope, and Charity. And Masons are eager to refer to the “charity” and the “charitable work” and similar expressions. Even worse, if
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“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.” Dalai Lama XIV There’s a stubbornly surviving shameful error in our lodges: about half of the Masons have no idea what the archaic plural of the noun “brother”
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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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