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by Midnight Freemason Contributor Darin A. Lahners I watched “Won’t you be my neighbor?” this evening. For those of you that live under a rock, it’s a documentary about Fred McFeely Rogers, known to many of us as Mr. Rogers. Contrary to the erroneous balderdash that you can find on the internet that he was…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners I recently discovered that our sacred temple legend is vastly different from the one that is claimed to be the original. According to Rudolf Steiner, in his lecture: “The Temple Legend – The Mystery known to the Rosicrucians”, which he gave in Berlin on the 4th of…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners The Dream/Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters is an etching by Francisco Goya created in 1799. It shows the artist with his head on his arms, sprawled across a desk asleep. Above him are bats and owls, and to his side is a cat staring at him. The…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners I was looking for something to watch tonight (July 17, 2018) and saw that one of my guilty pleasure movies was available on demand. The movie, ‘The Final Countdown’, was released in 1980. Starring Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Charles During, Katharine Ross, James Farentino, and Ron O’Neal,…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners I had my last meeting as Master of St. Joseph #970 on June 7, 2018. I’ve made no secret about my struggles as Master if you’re a regular reader of The Midnight Freemasons. As a Farewell address, I said the following to the Lodge members there. We…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners I graduated from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Minor in Philosophy in 1995. As a philosophy student, I was particularly drawn to Nietzsche, Sartre, Camus and Kierkegaard. At the time, I was also wrestling with my…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin Lahners The very first article I wrote for ‘The Midnight Freemasons’ was called: “What to Expect when You’re Expecting: Worshipful Masters Edition”. I wrote it as I was having trepidation upon going to the East in my home lodge of St. Joseph #970. I ended up setting out 5…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor Darin A. Lahners I might surprise many of you with the following confession: I once was an atheist. What? Freemasonry specifically bans atheists. Please note, I said WAS. I know that we’re specifically not supposed to discuss religion, but for the purposes of this article I need to provide my experiences…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor Darin A. Lahners I recently wrote regarding a dilemma that I was facing in one of the Lodges that I belong to. You can read that article HERE. If you want the TL;DR(Too Long Didn’t Read) version of it, it dealt with my thought process regarding allowing a man into the Fraternity…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners The Mission Statement Whence Came You? Three simple words. A question follows. What came you here to do? Another Question. You are a Mason, I presume? Another Question. What makes you a Mason? Another Question. However, is the answer to this last question really all that makes…