Texas Freemason Magazine

  By James C. “Chris” Williams IV, Staff Writer -  Profound Pontifications of Brother John Deacon The truth is that I wasn’t feeling very well…..my head felt foggy, and I hadn’t had much sleep in the last two nights.   Pam and I had celebrated our son’s birthday and then attended the local college’s football game with friends on successive days, and the combination of dinners, refreshments, and late nights was screaming something in my ear that sounded like nah nah nah nah nahhhh nah. Yup, I was thinking and moving slowly.   So you can imagine my mood when I looked up from my work and saw a rather bizarre sight.   Pulling into the first space in front of the shop was a big black F350 which, considering this is an auto repair shop is, in and of itself, not unusual.   This truck however, had a huge Christmas wreath complete with ornaments and evergreen…which covered the front grill area.   It was also wrapped with Christmas lights that twinkled off a...

From The Builder Magazine – January 1926 (Sourced by Martin Solis, Staff Writer) By BRO. R. J. Meekren To begin with it is necessary to state very plainly that practically nothing is known about the private, or as it might be termed, the esoteric symbolism of the Medieval Masons.  It has been shown in the two preceding articles that so far as their abilities went our Operative predecessors might have had a system of symbols of any degree of complexity they desired.  They recorded in carved stone, not once nor twice, but hundreds and thousands of times their possession of constructive imagination, of spiritual insight and perhaps even the mystical temper that fully qualified them as a group to work out a system of philosophy, veiled or clothed in allegory and set out by emblems and symbols. Those who are inclined to dismiss this possibility by speaking of them as mere ignorant workmen have not fully appreciated the realities of the situation.  As has been intimated, the or...