The Coming Men of America or C.M.A. (1894-1907) Source: Masonic Life Members of the McNeil, Arkansas, CMA (Coming Men of America) Lodge, c. 1904. Front row, L to R: Frank Key, Floyd Carraway, Claude Runyan, Will Carraway, Winfrey Smith, Clyde Smith. Back row, L to R: Eddy Gordon, Lovett Horton,…
Collabergh-Radium Lodge Source: http://crl859.org/wordpress/ Collabergh-Radium Lodge In 1906, 14 Brothers petitioned Grand Lodge for dispensation to form a Masonic Lodge in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y. There were 19 Charter members of this Lodge, named Collabergh Lodge. The name Collabergh is derived…
Clausen’s commentaries on “Morals and Dogma” Illustrations for the Commentaries were conceived and designed by Brother Robert E. Bartlett, 33º. Preface There is need for a more modern discussion of the actions and thoughts of Sovereign Grand Commander Albert Pike’s…
Chapter Penny Source: Phoenixmasonry This wonderful Chapter Penny pictures our namesake at Phoenixmasonry, that of the «Rising Phoenix«. The old mythological legend of the Phoenix is a familiar one. The bird was described as of the size of an eagle, with a head finely crested, a body covered with…
Center of the lodge Source: Masonic Vibes https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150621820208716 The East, the West, the South, the North In our Temple’s oblong square Are ofttimes mentioned for their worth, In their symbolism rare. Not so the center. When ‘tis passed By the…
Broken column Source: Mackey’s Encyclopedia of Freemasonry Among the Hebrews, columns, or pillars, were used metaphorically to signify princes or nobles, as if they were the pillars of a state. Thus (in Psalm xi, 3), the passage, reading in our translation, «If the foundations be destroyed…
B’nai B’rith International Courtesy of Phoenixmasonry Originally called the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith, which is Hebrew for the «Sons of the Covenant,» the order was established in New York City on October 13, 1843, by twelve German Jewish immigrants. It originally…
Beauseant Source: Mackey’s Encyclopedia of Freemasonry The vexillum belli, or war-banner of the ancient Templars, which is also used by the modem Masonic Order. The upper half of the banner was black, and the lower half white: black, to typify terror to foes, and white, fairness to friends.…
Ancient Landmarks Source: Mackey’s Encyclopedia of Freemasonry Until the year 1858, no attempt had been made by any Masonic writer to distinctly enumerate the landmarks of Freemasonry, and to give to them a comprehensible form. In October of that year, the author of this work published in the American Quarterly…
All seeing eye An important symbol of the Supreme Being, borrowed by the Freemasons from the nations of antiquity. Both the Hebrews and the Egyptians appear to have derived its use from that natural inclination of figurative minds to select an organ as the symbol of the function which it is…
