Monroe Lodge #22 F&AM

After several months of work by many Masons, including many of the Knights of the North, we are pleased to announce the launch of the new Masonic Dictionary website! Also known as "A Field Guide to Progressive Masonry," the Dictionary includes articles on Apathy, Universality, Landmarks, Pride, Dues, Freemasonarianism, and many more. It's your A to Z Guide to the problems that Freemasonry faces, and solutions to those problems.

Albert Pike's Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite is available online at Sacred-Texts.

(Since we postponed my presentation of this topic until the May meeting of the G&G Society, I thought I would post my working transcript here for those who are interested.)

Why the Holy Grail? And why me?

Last Fall, I was contacted by the people who have been publishing my wife’s low-carb cookbooks, which many of you know about. The same people have also been the state-side publishers of books like The Hiram Key and Robert Lomas’ latest effort, Turning the Hiram Key, which I had the opportunity to preview before publication. They informed me that they were planning to issue a "Holy Grail Kit," which would include a figurine of a "grail," a map showing important grail-related locations, a set of character cards depicting important people relative to the grail-legends, a genealogical chart showing the bloodline of Jesus and Mary Magdalene (ahem!), and a booklet to explain the origins of the legends, modern theories, etc. Their hope was that they could persuade me to write the booklet.

This is pretty cool:

The 26-page Coptic text of the Gospel of Judas is part of 62 pages containing several writings (some in Coptic and others in Greek) copied in one codex, or ancient papyrus book. It appears to have been produced by Egyptian Christians sometime in the fourth century. It's quite possible that the codex was part of the cache of 13 codices discovered in 1947 at Nag Hammadi, including the famous Gospel of Thomas. (Slate - April 10, 2006)

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Issue No. 4 of "Masonic Magazine," scheduled for publication June 21, will feature a story by Bro. David Lindez of Alpha Lodge No. 116 titled "Interview with a Living Masonic Legend." Bro. David interviewed, of course, none other than RW Bro. Thurman C. Pace, Jr.

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