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Gerry Rushton
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|  Greetings My Brothers! The year is half over and we have made some good progress on our goals. Many thanks goes out to the two "anonymous" brothers who had the dead tree removed and remaining trees pruned. That was an expensive task and the brothers insisted that they receive no recognition for this. They told me that they wanted to give back some of what they received from Pine Castle well over 10 years ago. I want you both to know just how much we appreciate your service. And thanks to Bro. Burridige, for his contribution to the building fund! It is very much appreciated. We had an E.A. and Fellowcraft degree in June. The younger brothers all pulled together for the degree teams and the work was done very well. Our BBQ was a terrific social success, with all brothers joining in to support our Jr. Warden and the lodge. Thanks again to the ladies for your help and to Michele for the great welcoming sign. Unfortunately, the financial benefits of our efforts may not be as good as we had hoped. The last I heard was that we will likely break even. It may be time to stop leaning on the formulas of the past and look to new sources of income to support the building and degree programs. This will be the main topic of discussion for the next stated communication.  Our Masonic Discussion Night (2nd. meeting of the month) was another great evening. This was the first time EA's and FC's were able to join us. Our Senior Steward Trey Rapp brought a very interesting film on the beginnings of masonry. This was probably the best account of our fraternities history that I have yet seen. Follow our on-line calendar for updates on our events for July. Enjoy the 4th. of July festivities. Stay safe. Remember how fortunate we all are to be living in this great country! Best Regards,  |
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The Medieval Freemasons did not study and think about the same subjects that architects and builders now except in fundamentals, did not secure the elements of a building ready-made from factories, had no steam or electric or magnetic tools to use; chemistry and physics were forbidden sciences, and could be studied by the initiate only in secret or under a heavy camouflage of symbolism. They had two great subjects: materials and men. A modern architect knows far more about materials than the Medieval builder because he has universities, literature, laboratories, and factories to draw on; but he knows far less about men, indeed, he knows almost nothing about men.
Where a modern builder looks to machines as the means to accomplish his results, the Medieval builder who had no power-driven machines had to look to men. For this reason the Medieval builder knew far more about work than his modern counterpart because work is nothing other than a man making use of himself as a means to get something made or produced or accomplished. Where a modern foreman thinks of himself as a supervisor of a building full of machines the Medieval foreman thought of himself as a Master of workmen. By the same token a workman had to know himself, instead of a machine, because he was his own machine. Skill is the expert use of one's self.
It was for such reasons that Medieval Freemasons thought much about and had a wide knowledge of the forms of work. There are some fifty-two of these.
Industry itself is one of them, the most massive and most dramatic, but not the most important. Where a man makes everything by himself from the raw materials to the finished product, is another. Where a number of men work in a line at the same bench and where the first does one thing to the "job, " the second does another, and so on until the "job" is completed by the last man, so that it is the job and not the men who move, is another form of work. Where one man completes one thing, another, perhaps in another place, completes another, and so on, and where finally a man combines a number of completed things to make one thing, is another form of work; etc., etc.
The general organization of a Lodge is based on the principle of forms of work; so are the stations and places of officers. Though as an emblem of the form of work called industry the Beehive symbolizes only one in Particular it at the same time represents the system of forms of work, is, as it were, an ensemble of them; and from it a sufficiently well-informed thinker could think out the system of Masonic Philosophy. In our Craft the whole of fraternalism is nothing other than the fellowship required by the forms of work, because the majority of them require men to work together in association, in stations and places, and therefore in co-operation.
It is strange that in its present-day stage of development the so-called science of economics should concern itself solely with such subjects as wages, machines, money, transportation because these are but incidentals and accidentals. Work is the topic proper to economics; and the forms of work are its proper subject-matter. Any scholar or thinker who chances to be a Mason could find in his own Fraternity a starting point for a new economics, as fresh and revolutionary and revealing as was the work of Copernicus in astronomy, of Newton in physics, of Darwin in biology. A beehive itself is a trifle, and scarcely worth ten minutes of thought; what it stands for is one of the largest and most important subjects in the world, and up until now one of the least understood.
- Source: Mackey's Encyclopedia of Freemasonry
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|  So a buddist walks up to a hot dog vendor and says...
"make me one with everything"....
Q. Why did the crocodile refuse to eat Freemasons?
A. Because they would lodge in its throat.
Did you hear about the dairy farmer who became a Mason?
He kept giving everyone the secret milkshake.
A wife heard her husband come back into the house not too long after he had left for the night. She said, "Honey, I thought you were going to your lodge meeting." "It was postponed." He replied. "The wife of the Grand Exalted Invincible Supreme Potentate wouldn't let him attend tonight."
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| July 3rd - Masters & Wardens @ Winter Garden #165 8am
July 4th - Independence Day
July 4th - Rainbow Assembly 6 Meeting 2pm
July 7th - Stated Communication 7:30pm, Dinner @6:30pm
July 9th - Demolay Info Meeting / Ritual Practice 6:30pm
July 10th - Demolay My Government Day
July 12th - Demolay Ritual Presentation
July 14th - School of Instruction @ Winter Garden #165 7pm
July 18th - Rainbow Assembly 6 Meeting 2pm
July 21st - Stated Communication 7:30pm, Dinner @6:30pm
July 24th - Family Breakfast 8am until 10am
July 28th - School of Instruction @ Winter Garden #165 7pm
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