Category: Darin A. Lahners
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A Lahners Recently, Midnight Freemasons founder Todd E. Creason challenged many of us who write for the Midnight Freemasons to provide broader content for the blog. As a lifelong fan of the Haiku, I was surprised to find that there were few examples of them with Masonic themes. Here’s…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners A few months ago, fellow Midnight Freemason contributor, Michael Arce, and I were discussing the idea of missing rings. This is the idea in sports, that there were some teams that should have won a championship, but for one reason or another did not. Teams like the…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners Almost every masonic writer, podcast, or pundit seems to be obsessed with fixing Freemasonry. I include myself in this group. It seems like there’s always…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners Read Part 1 Here Read Part 3 Here There are spoilers! What fantasy show would be complete without Dragons? A Dragon for those of you have spent your life underneath a rock, is a mythical monster like a giant reptile or huge serpent. In European tradition the…
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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…