Amazingly, no one knew who dumped the tea! Two thousand people stood on Griffin’s Wharf and watched the Boston Tea Party. The crowd was silent as sixty men dumped 340 chests of tea into the saltwater. Some of them put lampblack or paint on their faces. Some came wrapped in Read more
This, or some similar statement, is usually made at a lodge prior to voting on the application of one who would be an initiate of Freemasonry. In all jurisdictions in the United States, the ballot on an applicant is taken secretly–that is, with no brother knowing how another may vote. Read more
The Oxford International Dictionary of the English Language gives the following definition of the word “Cowan”: Cowan – 1598 [?] 1. Sc. One who does the work of a mason, but has not been apprenticed to the trade. 2. Hence, One uninitiated in the secrets of Freemasonry 1707. 3. slang. Read more
Containing more real food for thought, and impressing on the receptive mind a greater truth than any other of the emblems in the lecture of the Sublime Degree, the 47th problem of Euclid generally gets less attention, and certainly less than all the rest. Just why this grand exception should Read more
How familiar the phrase is. No Lodge is ever opened or closed, in due form, without using it. Yet how few know how old it is, much less what a deep meaning it has in it. Like so many old and lovely things, it is so near to us that Read more
There has been in the Code and Bylaws of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Ohio a reference to the OldCharges. This reference alludes to the basis of the Code andalso to much of the ritual for the Degrees of SymbolicFreemasonry. This is in Article XII. In Read more