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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners It may be a surprise to some Freemasons that Hiram Abiff wasn’t always in a prominent role in the Master Mason Degree. In fact, the first reference to the Hiramic legend occurs in 1730 in Samuel Prichard’s Masonry Dissected. In this work, Prichard refers to Hiram as…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” is a song by the American rock band R.E.M., from Athens, Georgia, which first appeared on their 1987 album Document. The song’s satirical title pretty much sums up my current state of mind,…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners *Editors Note* Originally published in 2018 here on the Midnight Freemasons Blog, I thought with a recent publication in the Fraternal Review, I would republish it here. It was read on the WCY Podcast as well in April of 2020, episode 442. It has a lot to…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners I had a local brother, Jim Licquia, email me this weekend asking me to write a column to address some questions he had. While it’s too early to assess this, I will attempt to answer his questions, because they are questions that all of us have thought…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor Darin A. Lahners, PM In the Entered Apprentice degree, one of the things that stood out to me was the following question and answer after you as the candidate first knock at the door of the preparation room to note your desire to become a Freemason. It is a question posed…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor Darin A. Lahners, PM Brethren, as I write this, the world as we know it is falling apart. Supermarkets are stripped bare. People are panicking due to fear of the unknown. My Grand Lodge here in Illinois, along with a lot of other jurisdictions, are suspending stated meetings and other lodge…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor Darin A. Lahners, PM The Danse Macabre or “Dance of Death” is an artistic allegory of the late middle ages on the universality of death. Its purpose is to show that death is inescapable, and it is the only thing other than birth that we have in common with everything else.…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor Darin A. Lahners, PM “Riddle me this my brother, can you handle it?” is the first line to the seminal track “Shadrach” on my favorite Beastie Boys album, Paul’s Boutique. Shadrach is the second and final single released from the album, which came out in 1989. Paul’s Boutique was produced by…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners Everything I needed to know about being a man, I learned in Freemasonry In 1986, a minister named Robert Fulghum published a book of short essays which was entitled, “Everything I needed to know I learned in Kindergarden”. He broke down sixteen items that he learned which…