Category: Freemasonry
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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 Read Part 1 HERE Read Part 2 HERE There are spoilers! Talking about the Starks, Let’s discuss a few of the Stark children. Bran Stark is paralyzed after climbing a tower in Winterfell and witnessing Jamie Lannister having intercourse with his twin sister Cersei. Jamie pushes Bran…
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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 I’ve been studying our rituals and history for quite some time now, and I’ve discovered the secret meaning of our Freemasonry. Freemasonry is teaching us about Zombies. In fact, all of the degrees you take are training you for the inevitability of you rising from the grave.…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners The afternoon after the morning session of Grand Lodge Sessions in Illinois last past, fellow Midnight Freemason Greg Knott and I found ourselves exploring Springfield. Our journey began at Oakridge Cemetery, which is best known for being the location of Lincoln’s tomb. After paying our respects to…