Category: 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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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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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 who had innocently responded…
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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…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners “The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Recently, I was informed of a degree in a…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners My girlfriend, Lisa, has been enjoying “#bamaRushTok” on Tik Tok, where she has been given insight into several of the Two Thousand Three Hundred and Forty-Five young women rushing the sororities at the University of Alabama. She was a member of a sorority at the University of…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners Like many of you, when I joined Freemasonry, I was told that Freemasonry was a “System of morality, veiled in allegory, and illustrated with symbols.” I expected to learn life-altering secrets but discovered none. Nobody gave me any information other than what I was told in degrees.…