Texas Freemason Magazine

By Brother James C. “Chris” Williams, IV – Staff Writer -  The Profound Pontifications of Brother John Deacon I don’t really know.  Maybe it was just that time of the year.  The weather had started getting cooler and I could see some leaves starting to change color.  The squirrels that entertained us all day running and jumping from limb to limb in that big old Oak tree outside the window of the shop were busy collecting acorns.  Watching them made me think it might be a colder than normal winter this year.  I had been feeling a lot hungrier lately and I wondered if it was just that natural biological instinct to begin to prepare for the winter.  As I was daydreaming watching those squirrels, out of the corner of my eye I saw a big black truck pull into the handicapped parking place right in front of the door to the shop.  The old saying that “you better watch out what you wish for because you just might get it” popped into my head as I watched h...

  By BRO. N. W. J. HAYDON, Associate Editor, Canada Sourced By Martin Solis, Staff Writer There are altogether ten pillars in Masonic usage, outside the temple or lodge room, three within it and five in its symbolic content.  The first five are present at all times; the second five are employed for but one special purpose.  As might be supposed, most of our interest and discussion gathers the first two, the famous brazen pillars that marked the chief entrance to the Temple of King Solomon, the position and significance of which have caused unlimited argument. There two descriptions in the V.S.L. of the temple and its components, one in I Kings, chap. 7, and the other in II Chronicles, chap. 4, which, while appearing to disagree with each other, are said to give the inner and outer dimensions of this building and its several parts, so that without either of them it would be impossible to get a correct image of what that famous building might have been when completed. The n...

By Bill Crow, Associate Editor Do you recall what happened in 1685 in England, that had a significant impact on what we as Masons know about our American Masonic History? I was perusing a volume of the Freemasons Monthly Magazine compiled by Charles W. Moore, Corresponding Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, Volume XXX(30), printed in Boston Massachusetts, by Aurther W. Locke & Company in 1871. It was a fascinating read, having articles written, published, and often presented verbally at Massachusetts Grand Communications, circa., September 1,1870 through March 1,1872. As we are aware in Masonry, Texas Masonry in particular, we often find and hold on to differing opinions in our lodges. Some good, some not so good, and topics of discussion that cause significant debate among Brother Masons. We tend to think some or many of those differing views are new and are part of a current progressive or conservative plan for change in Masonry. To my amazement, as someone once...