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RECENT MASONIC NEWS: Oklahoma Masonic Foundation presents $100000 gift to establish Institute for … Durant Daily Democrat – OK, USA – June 11th http://www.durantdemocrat.com/view/full_story/7901870/article-Oklahoma-Masonic-Foundation-presents–100-000-gift-to-establish-Institute-for-Professional-Development-at-SE-?instance=home_news_lead Masons to lay addition’s cornerstone Fort Morgan Times – CO, USA – June 11th http://www.fortmorgantimes.com/ci_15277228 Karas receives Masonic scholarship Fort Morgan Times, CO, USA – June 11th http://www.fortmorgantimes.com/ci_15278538 Admitted Freemason A [...]

I do not look for holy saints to guide me on my way, Or male and female devilkins to lead my feet astray. If these are added, I rejoice—if not, I shall not mind, So long as I have leave and choice to meet my fellow-kind. For as we come and as we go (and [...]

RECENT MASONIC NEWS: Masonic mystery Nashua Telegraph – NH, USA – Mar 20th http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/679081-196/masonic-mystery.html?i=1 Church rebounding after Masonic Temple fire Evening Observer – Dunkirk, NY, USA – Mar 21st http://www.observertoday.com/page/content.detail/id/537584.html?nav=5047 Hundreds attend event honoring Fred Allen Mount Pleasant Daily Tribune – TX, USA – Mar 22nd http://www.dailytribune.net/articles/2010/03/22/news/01.txt Masonic Lodge No. 342 awards scholarships Newstreamz San [...]

Sheffield University – “Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism” Website: www.freemasonry.dept.shef.ac.uk/ 1) First issue of the Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism now officially launched http://www.equinoxjournals.com/ojs/index.php/JRFF/issue/current Hard copies will be available within a week or so. For subscriptions to the journal, see http://www.equinoxjournals.com/ojs/index.php/JRFF/about/subscriptions The establishment of an academic journal is a vital step forward in [...]

I read on Stephen Dafoes’s site www.lodgeoom.com ,  in his piece the ‘The Restaurant at the end of the Masonic Universe. he writes, “I really feel that I have been sold a pack of lies,” wrote one such young mason recently on an Internet discussion forum. How sad it is that a young man, who [...]

Morgan: The Scandal That Shook Freemasonry By Stephen Dafoe With A Foreword By Arturo De Hoyos Was William Morgan Murdered By Masons? Sample Chapter On September 11, 1826 William Morgan was arrested for petit larceny and taken from his home in Batavia, New York to answer the charge. He never saw his home or family [...]