Texas Freemason Magazine

  John Deacon Finding Unexpected Light at Billy Gene’s By James C. “Chris” Williams IV, Staff Writer Well, I finally found John, not that anyone was as worried about it as I was.   As it turns out, he and Mrs. Deacon were having a happy, much deserved weeks’ vacation on a cruise to the Caribbean.   When he finally returned one of the many messages I left him, he tried to tell me that he had called and left me a message that he was going to be gone.   I assured him that, had he actually left me a message, it was a good bet that I would not have been calling him and leaving him messages wondering where he was.   Unbelievably, he actually saw the logic in what I said.   He had just called to tell me that he was in Kerrville for the day and was not going to have enough time to drive the 45 minutes to have lunch with me.   I sure didn’t have anything for this month’s newsletter so lunch in the big city of Kerrville sounded pretty good.   On the w...

  A LOOK BACK The Builder Magazine - September 1923 The Hoodwink b y Bro. HENRY TAYLOR, Missouri In the candidate's experiences of initiation, the hoodwink plays a larger part than we are wont to think.   To him it is one of the most impressive of the things that are done to him.   Being darkened, his other senses are all the more alert; what he touches, hears or smells takes on an added significance.   His imagination is aroused, everything becomes magnified, so that some of the simplest things done about him, steps taken, or words said, assume almost terrifying magnitudes.   His fears and apprehensions are abnormally active.   In this state he is, so far as his emotions and mind are concerned, in a state of such impressibility that every stage of his experience leaves behind it an indelible memory.   The reader may verify this for himself by recalling his own impressions, especially of his First Degree, though there were times afterwards when h...