The College World Series is once again history and we can settle down to our normal lifestyle.  If we could expend as much energy in our “Blue Lodge”, think what we could put in our history book.

We apologize for getting the Tresleboard to you a little late last month, but hopefully that problem is solved.  If you missed W\ Bro. Ivan’s presentation in June, you can catch up by coming to lodge this month and having a private interview with him.

We have candidates for the month of July and are still on track to hit that magic number of 20 this summer and next fall.  Let’s all keep thinking “membership”.

MW\ Bro. Phil Lorenzen will be our next scheduled presenter prior to the July business meeting.  Remember, we start the Educational Session at 7:00 p.m. followed by the short business meeting at 7:30 p.m.

Our newest Master Mason, Ross Hickerson, has shown a great interest in the fraternity and is working on the Entered Apprentice Charge.  We are all looking forward to his first step along his Masonic journey.  Next time you see him at lodge, give him a pat on the back!

Fraternally Yours,

Charles W. Amidon

Worshipful Master-2003

The North East Corner

Lloyd G. Ramsay, 32 Degree, KCCH

Charleston, SC 

All Masons should remember when they stood in the northeast corner of the Lodge. At that moment, they first stood as an equal among their peers. No matter if they were rich or poor, prince or pauper, they were on the same step in the same stance as all Masons before them. Here, with body erect, each was, to all outward appearance, a perfect and upright man and Mason. After experiencing that time and place, it is doubtful any Brother will ever forget the charge given, the proper use of the working tools of an Entered Apprentice and, more importantly, the reason why he was placed in this particular part of the Lodge.  

The fact that operative Masons start the construction of the edifice at the northeast corner has a meaning to us all. However, there is another, less tangible reason for the placement of an Entered Apprentice in the northeast corner. If we carefully listened to the beautiful Lecture of the Entered Apprentice Degree, we learned what the three greater and lesser Lights of Masonry are, the meaning of the great Light of Masonry, the significance of the working tools, and the fact that Light and wisdom are in the east of the Lodge, whereas ignorance and darkness are in the north.  

Throughout the history of mankind, there have been periods called "dark ages", times when people were subjugated, uneducated, uninformed, and kept in a state of fear. Expressed figuratively, they were "in the dark".  

Light, in this case, is knowledge, the illumination of the World's meaning. In one Lodge we have two places, each the opposite of the other. The east represents Masonic enlightenment and knowledge; the north symbolizes darkness and ignorance. Significantly, there is no officer of the Lodge in the north, (American Lodges), no one to impart knowledge or offer assistance.  

Now we can understand why an Entered Apprentice, who at this time is the weakest link in Masonry, is placed in the north east corner. For it is here he is given two choices of direction to travel. If he decides to go north, that is, should he decide not to continue in his travels in Masonic knowledge, then all he can expect to find will be the making of his own "darkness". He will never know all the Light that can be conferred in the Lodge. If he elects to travel eastward, he journeys toward the enlightenment and wisdom, which can make him the perfect, upright man and Mason, who can stand erect and true before both God and man.  

2003 Rosters

are available

Pick one up at the lodge

(Out of town?  Call one of your

line officers or email the Secretary

at dudru@cox.net and we

will mail one to you!)

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Thank You!