Category: masonic
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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.…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners I recently found out that the mother of a very good friend passed away. I hadn’t talked to my friend in some time. We seem to have a love/hate relationship, where we talk for some time, but then ultimately one of us does or says something that…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners Many of you may have at some point in your life found yourself in a similar situation to one I had recovered from recently. On November 27, 2018, I had to have my tonsils removed. I’m a 45 year old man. When I wrote this, I was…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners Many of my fellow Midnight Freemasons have no idea that I belong to another secret society. Ok – so it’s not really a ‘secret society’, but I play in a draft simulation league using the Diamond Mind Computer Baseball Game along with 20 other so like –…
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by Midnight Freemasons Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners Yesterday, August 15, 2020, was Masonic Visibility and Pride Day here in Illinois. The event was sponsored by the Grand Lodge of Illinois and Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Illinois. The Grand Lodges asked that all Brethren help them “celebrate by wearing clothing (e.g. t-shirts, polo shirts,…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” is a song by the American rock band R.E.M., from Athens, Georgia, which first appeared on their 1987 album Document. The song’s satirical title pretty much sums up my current state of mind,…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners *Editors Note* Originally published in 2018 here on the Midnight Freemasons Blog, I thought with a recent publication in the Fraternal Review, I would republish it here. It was read on the WCY Podcast as well in April of 2020, episode 442. It has a lot to…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners I had a local brother, Jim Licquia, email me this weekend asking me to write a column to address some questions he had. While it’s too early to assess this, I will attempt to answer his questions, because they are questions that all of us have thought…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor Darin A. Lahners, PM In the Entered Apprentice degree, one of the things that stood out to me was the following question and answer after you as the candidate first knock at the door of the preparation room to note your desire to become a Freemason. It is a question posed…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor Darin A. Lahners, PM Brethren, as I write this, the world as we know it is falling apart. Supermarkets are stripped bare. People are panicking due to fear of the unknown. My Grand Lodge here in Illinois, along with a lot of other jurisdictions, are suspending stated meetings and other lodge…