Category: guarding the west gate
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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 Freemasons Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners As we continue to explore Dwight L. Smith’s seminal work, “Whither are We Traveling?”, we begin to explore his answers to the ten questions he posed for self-examination of the state of Ancient Craft Freemasonry in 1963. The questions he asked are as important and relevant now…
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by Midnight Freemasons Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners As we continue to explore Dwight L. Smith’s seminal work, “Whither are We Traveling?”, we begin to explore his answers to the ten questions he posed for self-examination of the state of Ancient Craft Freemasonry in 1963. The questions he asked are as important and relevant now…
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by Midnight Freemasons Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners In September and October, Freemason Lodges across Illinois started to receive anti-Masonic literature like that above. This literature was deposited by a person or persons who not only have no idea what Freemasonry is or does, but that also decided to reuse arguments from Leo Taxil’s hoax…
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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 Darin A. Lahners I recently wrote regarding a dilemma that I was facing in one of the Lodges that I belong to. You can read that article HERE. If you want the TL;DR(Too Long Didn’t Read) version of it, it dealt with my thought process regarding allowing a man into the Fraternity…