Category: Darin A. Lahners
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners It has been said that the First Meeting that an Entered Apprentice attends is the most important meeting of a Freemason’s career. I would argue that it’s the first meeting after they’ve been raised as a Master Mason, because as an Entered Apprentice, honestly, you don’t have…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners This past weekend, I had the opportunity to travel to Kentucky with Senior Midnight Freemason contributor, Greg Knott. Greg has a home right off of Lake Barkley. Saturday while trying to decide what to do, I asked Greg if he had ever been to the Patton Museum…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners A recent road trip to Salt Lake City, Utah with my girlfriend, Lisa, and youngest son, Spencer, took us from east-central Illinois to several cities, National Parks, and National Monuments on the way. In order to get to Craters of the Moon National Monument, one would find…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners As an editor, I try not to run consecutive articles by the same author on the blog. However, something that happened to the District Education Officers (DEOs) and Area Education Officers (AEOs) of the Grand Lodge of Illinois this past Saturday at the District Deputy Grand Master…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners As I write this, the Delta variant of Covid-19 is sweeping the nation. While there is no evidence that the Delta variant makes people more severely sick, it is around twice as contagious as the original SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) virus.[1] According to research from Johns Hopkins University, the average number of daily…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners In the First Degree ritual, Freemasons are taught about the point within a circle or the circumpunct. The uncyphered Illinois ritual states: “Lodges in ancient times were dedicated to King Solomon, he being our first Most Excellent Grand Master; in modern times to St. John the Baptist…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners Francis A. Hamer was born on March 17, 1884, in Fairview, Texas. His parents were Frank and Lou Emma (Francis). He grew up on the Welch Ranch in San Saba County, Texas. The family moved to Oxford in Llano County in 1894, where Hamer worked at his father’s blacksmith…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners This article is not for everyone. If you are not interested in the topic, then read no further. The purpose of the article is to make you think about how Freemasonry is impacted or could be impacted by the recent acknowledgment of the United States Government that…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners Used under Fair Use for Educational Purposes, clip courtesy: Toast of London S2 E4 I have been a fan of absurdist British Comedy since I first watched Monty Python’s Flying Circus as a young adult. I think there are two types of people in America, (or maybe…