July 27th is our annual celebration of the Royal Court of King Solomon! Dinner will commence promptly at 6:15 pm. Please go to the Paypal button on the Home page to make your reservations! Legends, often clouded in myth and fantasy, surrounding the origin and growth of Freemasonry are abundant. S...
The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy. Esoterika Study group will discuss the Introduction and First Chapter (The Ancient Mysteries and Secret Societies Which Have Influenced Modern Masonic Symbolism) on S...
Albert Pike (December 29, 1809–April 2, 1891) Albert Pike born December 29, 1809, was the oldest of six children born to Benjamin and Sarah Andrews Pike. Pike was raised in a Christian home and attended an Episcopal church. Pike passed the entrance examination at Harvard College when he was 15...
THE GRAND LODGE THAT WAS brought into existence in 1717 did not find it necessary to possess a Constitution of its own for some years. Exactly what went on between 1717 and 1721 we do not know; almost our only authority being the account given by Anderson in 1738 which is unreliab...
Results for Final Round SUNDAY FEBRUARY 15th, 2009 POMONA, Calif. - SUMMIT FastNews - Results of final, round 7 eliminations in Super Stock at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, 50th annual Kragen O'Reilly NHRA Winternationals presented by Valvoline: W/L Drive...
In Masonic symbolism the Lambskin Apron holds precedence. It is the initial gift of Freemasonry to a candidate, and at the end of life's pilgrimage it is reverently placed on his mortal remains and buried with his body in the grave. Above all other symbols, the Lambskin Apron is the disting...
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Comments from the East
Hello Brothers of Esoterika Lodge! The 153rd Annual Meeting of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Washington is now history. It was a lively meeting at times and slower at other times. Overall it was an opportunity to interact with Masons from around this Grand Jurisdiction and hear what their individual lodges are doing and how they view the Fraternity. New Masons are being inducted at many Lodges and the overall feeling I got wehen talking with Masons was they are pretty upbeat about the general health of the Craft. Esoterika was singled out with an award for 'BEST' website. CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR WEBMASTER, WB Ken M. Lane, Jr!
Our new Grand Master, G. Santy Lascano was installed, as were the other elected officers with a newly elected Junior Grand Warden, RW Jerald K. Lingel.
We are now nearly in our mid-year in Esoterika Lodge. This “summer”, if it ever actually gets here, we will hold our annual “table lodge” on 27 July. Please remember to make your reservations on our website or by contacting our Junior Warden, Brother Brad Greco. Then in August we will be conferring the Fellowcraft Degree. If you have not offered your talents to take a part, please contact Brother Brad Greco.
In a few short weeks our Nation will celebrate Independence Day. Take a look at the history of our Country and therein you will also see the history of Freemasonry in this “land of the Free and home of the Brave.” Celebrate and never forget the sacrifices made by our forefathers to allow us to enjoy our Freedoms. Be not indolent but ever vigilant for complacency begets serfdom.
Finally, I read an interesting article in a recent edition of “Emessay Notes” and thought it worth sharing.
“Therefore, if any young man here has embarked his life in pursuit of knowledge, let him go on without doubting or fearing the event; - let him not be intimidated by the cheerless beginnings of knowledge, by the darkness, from which she springs, by the difficulties which hover around her, by the wretched habitations in which she dwells, by the want and sorrow which sometimes journeys in her train; but let him ever follow her as the Angel that guards him, and as the Genius of his life. She will bring him out at last into the light of day, exhibit him to the world comprehensive in acquirements, fertile in resources, rich in imagination, strong in reasoning, prudent and powerful above his fellows, in all the relations and in all the offices of life.” Sydney Smith.
Look well to your studies, forget not your obligations, be confident in yourself and your Esoterika Brothers.
Fraternally yours,
Aribest,
WM Joseph W. MacIntyre
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Aspire to Inspire before you Expire
"Aestimatio Sibi Honosque Fraternitati"
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
– Theodore Roosevelt, "Citizenship in a Republic," speech at the Sorbonne, Paris (April 23, 1910)
