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WB Darin A. Lahners Editor’s Note: The below is a reworked article from the Grand Lodge of Illinois A.F.&A.M. Educational Magazine, The Lyceum. As that article was focused on how Education is structured in Illinois, I have edited it to make it more generic. One of the questions that Masonic Educators get asked most often…
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WB Darin A. Lahners Hanukkah is consistently overshadowed by Christmas when it comes to the winter holiday season. I’ve written multiple Christmas articles, but none regarding Hanukkah. In an attempt to rectify this, I decided to set out to share the story of the Hanukkah celebration. I believe that it ties in with Freemasonry…
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by Midnight Freemasons Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners One of the most iconic images that immediately makes one think of Christmas is the Christmas Tree. The influence of Pagan rites can’t be debated when it comes to the Christmas Tree. The celebration of the Winter Solstice was important to many pre-Christian faiths. Traditionally, the Solstice…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners Visiting is pretty Visiting is good Seems that all they ever wanted was a brother This can be a secret We can keep it good Even all they ever wanted had a problem -Foo Fighters The above lyrics are from the Foo Fighters debut single release, entitled…
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WB Darin A. Lahners Did King Solomon have a UFO? One legend that both Jewish and Islamic Tradition share is the idea of the Queen of Sheba visiting Solomon. The Old Testament mentions her visit twice, in: 1 Kings 10:1-12: 1 When the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon and his…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners One of the things that Masonic Researchers seem to obsess over is how Freemasonry came into existence. As romantic as the thought of us being from the lineage of the Knight’s Templar or Mithraism or the Ellucian Mysteries or the Egyptian Mystery Schools or Enoch or Ancient…
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WB Darin A. Lahners I was searching for Masonic content on Youtube the other night, and I ran across this podcast, https://benfranklinsworld.com/episode-329-mark-tabbert-freemasonry-in-early-america/, Ben Franklin’s world, whose guest was Mark Tabbert. (Mark is the Director of Archives and Exhibits at the George Washington Masonic National Memorial.). I can’t recommend the episode enough. Several things…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners As much as I preach about the evils of social media and try to limit my use of it and especially commenting on it, occasionally I succumb to doing so. Recently I did succumb to that temptation when I came to the defense of MWB Robert Davis…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners I recently found myself in a situation where I discovered several items which I felt could either be considered using terms that could be considered offensive or put Freemasonry in a bad light in a Short Talk Bulletin that my Grand Lodge was using as a recruitment…