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As
the summer comes to a close and we welcome the fall there are lots of
opportunities to get involved with the lodge and to help out. Our
candidates are progressing in their proficiencies and through the
degrees. In fact, so much so that we see several third degrees in our
immediate future. Over the next few months we are going to put on several
third degrees, and we sure could you your help. Please let me know if you
would be interested, and or willing to take and learn a part.
We
were planning to put on a special Constitutional observance program this
month, however, our leader Brother Jerry DaDurka will not be back from his
vacation in time, so we'll reschedule later in the fall (probably in
November). As you know, the Constitution and the lives and writings of
the founding fathers is a hobby of mine and I look forward to assisting
Brother Jerry with the program.
Please remember brothers that there are many opportunities to get
involved and to serve. Many of our brothers and candidates have not only
noticed, but have mentioned that our lodge is "really on fire right now."
We are in the process of moving to a new level of membership, activation,
involvement, service, and fellowship. There has never been a better time
to come out to lodge and see what is happening. We look forward to seeing
you there.
I
have been planning all year to write an extensive article for the lodge on
the symbol: Point within a Circle. I will try to do so before the year is
out. However, in the mean time I found some further explanation of that
symbol from a brochure put out by the Grand Lodge of California (of course
with my comments). The document says:
The lecture gives an
esoteric explanation of this symbol within the two parallel lines
representing the Sts. John, not in their theological significance (I
disagree with this statement) but in their sense as a
calendar, the days named after the Saints themselves, are denoted. Since
those days were the two extremes of the year, the sun is represented as
swinging in its circuit between them. The two days are therefore, the
limits of the circle as set between the lines. Hence it is a symbol of
control of conduct (I like this interpretation).
When
man conceived that there was but one God (man didn't conceive this, it was
revealed by God to chosen men, prophets of God – read the story of Moses),
rather than innumerable special deities, and attempted to picture that
conception of unity, the only thing he could do was to make a point (I
don't like the wording of this. It makes our ancestors sound primitive
which is something I do not believe at all). When he conceived that God
was eternal, without beginning and without ending, the only appropriate
picture he could draw was the circle, which goes around and around forever
(the original meaning of the wedding ring was that it was an emblem
representing the eternal, unending union of man and wife beyond the
grave).
Fraternally,
Rich Jorgensen
Senior
Warden
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