Templar Edification

Betsy Arakawa and Gene Hackman at the Academy Awards in 1989. Credit...Ralph Dominguez/MediaPunch/IPX, via AP Please, each Sir Knight & Companion, be cognizant of our keepers, our bonds with others, our care takers, our care givers, we all have them to what extent we need them. Please raise awareness where you notice gaps or a vacuum perhaps due to a recent change in status or situation that may be challenging to communicate. Be aware of the lifelines in your families lives or an unplanned lack thereof. Renew the spirit of being neighborly, remain aware, vigilant and communicative, and flexible. ----------------------------------------------------------- There is a memorable portraiture of Mr. Gene Hackman’s ancient Science, Rhetoric, that parallels how we live as Mason’s. Nurturing a small town group of basketball players in “Hoosiers”, we see the emotional influence upon youth being subjected to big city venues, akin to realizing ourselves, all can relate to the feeling of being ...

I have on my little finger one of the oldest and most widespread of esoteric symbols: the pentagram, or five-pointed star within a circle. I view this as something of a litmus test. The pentagram has been, at various points in history, a Jewish symbol, a Christian symbol, a sigil of Renaissance magic, a Masonic symbol, a Wiccan symbol, and last as well as least, a Satanic symbol. But it appears to have started with Pythagoras. Pythagoras lived and taught in the sixth century BC. He was born in Samos and settled in the Greek colony of Croton, modern day Calabria, where he founded his community. His teachings emphasized moderation, piety, health of body and soul, respect for elders and of the state, and monogamy. He believed in the transmigration [also known as metempsychosis, is the belief that the soul or non-physical essence of a living being continues its existence in a different physical form or body after biological death] of souls, opposed animal cruelty, and advocated for the ben...