Category: Darin A. Lahners
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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…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners Darin and Allan I’m pretty sure that if you’re a Freemason, you immediately recognize the title of this article as the first line of the Masonic Funeral Dirge. The dirge was composed by Bro. David Vinton in 1816 and it is set musically to Pleyel’s Hymn which…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners The degree system of craft Freemasonry is centered on the building of the Temple of Solomon and the story of its chief architect, Hiram Abiff. According to the non-cyphered Book of Standard Work of my Grand Lodge(IL), “The Temple at Jerusalem was supported by fourteen hundred fifty-three…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor Darin A. Lahners Three weeks ago I was sitting with a candidate about to undertake his Entered Apprentice degree at historic Homer Lodge #199 in Homer, Illinois. Something happened that evening that I don’t recall ever happening to me previously in Freemasonry. Granted, I’ve only been a Master Mason since 2011,…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners A few years ago, reverse mentoring was a hot new trend in the business world. It was an initiative in which older executives are paired with and mentored by younger employees. It is seen as a way to bring older employees up to speed in areas that…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners August 19, was what would have been the 98th birthday of Star Trek’s creator, Gene Roddenberry. As luck would have it, I injured my back somehow last Wednesday which put me in bed for the better part of that evening and most of Thursday. There was a…