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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners Read Part 2 Here Read Part 3 Here Spoilers Ahead! I am, as well as many of you, very excited to see the how Game of Thrones ends on HBO. The television series is based upon the Fantasy book series called “A Song of Ice and Fire”…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners Last night, The Scottish Rite Northern Masonic Jurisdiction hosted a live video stream on the topic: ”Do Nice Guys Really Finish Last? Masonry and the True Meaning of Being a Man”. This parallels the entire idea of Freemasonry taking Good Men and making them better. The fallacy…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners FORWARD: RJ had been after me to give the readers a little taste of the “Harry Potter and Freemasonry” presentation that I’ve been giving to lodges in the 7th Eastern District in Illinois. We were in a pinch for an article so I present part of my…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners Thaddeus S.C. Lowe was born on August 20, 1832 in Jefferson Mills, New Hampshire. He had no formal education, but demonstrated a thirst for knowledge which would culminate with his career as an inventor. At the age of 18, he attended a lecture given by Prof. Reginald…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners I was in a local gas station here in the booming metropolis of Saint Joseph, Illinois, when the clerk remarked, “The Masons? I didn’t even know you guys were still around.” It took me a minute to realize that I was wearing one of my shirts from…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners Like many other American Freemasons, I was pleased to see that the documentary “Inside the Freemasons” which originally debuted on the Sky1 channel in England in 2017 was on Netflix. The 5 part series runs about 45 minutes per episode, and focuses on several Freemasons in England…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners I’ve been studying our rituals and history for quite some time now, and I’ve discovered the secret meaning of our Freemasonry. Freemasonry is teaching us about Zombies. In fact, all of the degrees you take are training you for the inevitability of you rising from the grave.…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners The afternoon after the morning session of Grand Lodge Sessions in Illinois last past, fellow Midnight Freemason Greg Knott and I found ourselves exploring Springfield. Our journey began at Oakridge Cemetery, which is best known for being the location of Lincoln’s tomb. After paying our respects to…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners Joseph Brant was a Native American war chief of the Tribe of Mohawk who sided with the British during the American Revolutionary War. Born in 1742, while his parents were on a hunting trip, he was born on the banks of the Ohio River. He was named…