Social Hour 5:30pm - arrive early!
Please join us at The Royal Court of King Solomon Table Lodge which commences promptly at 6:15pm. Merriment, toasting, friendship and Brotherhood are the order of the day! Reservations for our catered dinner are required. Please go to the Paypal button on the home page or contact Please join us! Make your dinner reservations by using the Paypal button on the home page of the website or contact Brad Greco -
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A brief Lodge meeting will commence following dinner on the EA degree.
Legends, often clouded in myth and fantasy, surrounding the origin and growth of Freemasonry are abundant. Some historians trace the beginning back 3,000 years to the building of King Solomon’s Temple, to Egypt, to Greece, to even earlier periods.
In the earliest dawn of history there came into being men skilled in the art and science of building with stone. Before the beginning of recorded history, there were buildings and monuments of such magnitude that only men of considerable skill in engineering and geometry could have erected. Their work was dangerous and risky. Only an expert, trained and qualified, could be entrusted to produce that which would be useful, beautiful, and stand the test of time. All evidence points to the fact that it was through King Solomon’s support that these men who worked with and carved freestone organized into the building craft guild called Masonry.
Solomon, King of Isreal was the son of David, Kind of Isreal and Bathsheba, the widow of Uriah, the Hittite. Solomon was King of Isreal in the 10th Century B.C. As well as can be estimated from the family chronology of the times, Solomon was 20 years of age when he ascended to the throne. His reign maintained peace with all surrounding nations throughout his life and fought not a single major war, notwithstanding he was surrounded by age-old antagonists of his father.
The account of Solomon’s Temple in I Kings 6 and 7, the most reliable and one from which II Chronicles 3 and 4 were derived, does not state the location of the building, but authorities seem to agree that it was near if not upon the sacred rock where David built his altar[1], which place is now occupied by the Dome of the Rock and Mosque of Omar and which prior to David’s time was known as the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
“Solomon’s Temple”, the King’s palace, the house he built for Pharoah’s daughter, the King’s leading wife are mentioned in accounts, but there were a multitude of others as priests, prophets, civil servants, household servants and others to make up a small community. The royal palace seems to have been of timber construction and required 13 years to build. It was 75 by 150 feet in area and 45 feet high, supported by four rows of cedar pillars with cedar beams laid across. The palace was lighted by three rows of windows. Before it were porches, one of which was 45 feet by 75 feet and another which was occupied by Solomon when he sat in Judgment, indicating that even political proceedings were held in the open. The numbers and classifications of the workmen engaged on the temple are mythical and, like all ancient accounts are unreliable and cannot be regarded as history. The temple was first destroyed[2] in 586 B.C.
This evening you will enter into a representation of the Royal Court of King Solomon’s Temple. It is here you will truly find and share Good Fellowship, Brotherly Love, Relief and Truth. It is time to feast! It is a time of cheer and mirth. “Let us eat, drink and be merry… for tomorrow we shall be better friends” exemplifies the true spirit of the "mystic tie.”
There are to be no strangers, no emptiness or gloom, no blank and listless faces when craftsmen from the quarries assemble together within the Royal Court of Solomon. Music, singing, laughter and plenty of toasts are the order of the day!
[1] II Samuel 24: 18-25: I Chronicles 22:1; II Samuel 24
[2] by the Chaldeans (Babylonians)
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