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Some places can only be visited with our eyes closed. Imagine it is Saturday, November 4, 1752. We are standing outside John Jones’s...

As a schoolteacher we are taught/trained to be reflective in order to improve our lessons as well as our ability to convey knowledge to...

“All must hope that someday America would penetrate the deepest secrets of that mysterious orb, the moon,” wrote Jules Verne in his 1865...

Many a Mason has been known to enjoy a drop here and there. But no, that’s not what the three silver and gold flasks seen above are all...

As a general rule, Freemasonry tends to be concerned with internal matters—spiritual and educational practices within oneself, and ritual...

I hold it truth with him who singsTo one clear Harp in divers tonesThat men may rise on stepping stonesOf their dead selves to higher...

During the later part of the Eighteenth Century and the early part of the Nineteenth Century, there were major forces working in American...

It has been the subject of many Masonic historians and authors over the centuries, to seek the origins of elements of Masonic ritual, and...

A most important part of the curriculum of the ancient mysteries was instruction in cosmology, the science of the universe. The intention...

Someday soon, Ricardo Torres Jr. intends to bring his 92-mile-per-hour fastball to the major leagues. With it, he hopes to add his name...

In the vast history of American politics and its political parties, the Anti‑Masonic Party was an American political organization which...

Ancient Romans based designs of temples on proportions of the human body. The design of Temples depends on symmetry, the rules of which...

It is easy, Masonically, to confuse wisdom with knowledge as it is to do so in profane life. Knowledge is the cognizance of facts. Wisdom...

Research shows that the use of the expression, “by the square,” or “on the square” has been so thoroughly adopted throughout the world –...

In 1757 King George II presented to the British Museum a collection of some 12,000 volumes, the nucleus of which had been laid by King...

When a new Entered Apprenticed Mason is initiated, the Worshipful Master grants the Senior Warden the authority to invest the newly...

“Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no...

Los Angeles Harbor Lodge (formerly San Pedro Lodge) No. 332 is the Home of the Hiram Award . Probably one of the most dedicated,...

Before Solomon and Hiram, there was Noah – God’s Builder. The Bible is not only the first and foremost of The Three Great Lights of...

Even a stranger, entering a Masonic Lodge Room, as he may do on a public occasion, must be struck by a mysterious Letter which hangs over...