Brothers  

I try not to delete anti-Masonic comments because we have nothing to hide, but they get me and others riled up which results in negative replies, which is not conducive to what we should all be striving for, but then again these types of conversations tend to keep the group active; especially when there are lulls in activity.

What is your pleasure?  Should I start delegating/hiding such trolling? Or leave the record to stand for itself?

It has been a little while since the convergence of this club into a group. While I am listed at the founder I am indeed not the founder, our founder is Robert-Scott-Pfau and can be seen at this [link] submitted the request for the convergence and DA put me as the founder, so I would like to take a moment to give credit where credit is due.
With that said we are growing pretty fast, most of our members should be freemasons with a few OES, Demolay and etc.. if there are any hiccups with the settings please let me know, I would like for the members to have total freedom to upload art, post blogs and anything else they would like to do (I am still kind of new to this.)
Also there is a new group for Masonic Knights Templers, if you are a Templar or simply support Temlarism/Christian Chivalry feel free to check it out, join, and contribute.
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Please let us know how we are doing and any improvements we can make, just shoot us a note or post it on our comments wall.
Caritas
Cole Gallup MS MM KT 32
Equas a' Tranqullas RC

The Thinkers group is looking for new members. They are a philosophy group that aims to make the links between current issues and philosophy. To continue the dialogue that has been going on since the Ancient Greeks. Feel free to take a look!
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We learn that the beginning of the Categorical Lecture was what the writers of the ritual held to be paramount, in two phrases we learn who you are as a candidate and what your intentions in Freemasonry should be. But why SBDU our PSSNS, what is the purpose of this.

In my readings of Morals and Dogma I have constantly came across the word disinterestedness, especially in the ineffable degrees. To us in our modern English the word carries a connotation of being “without interest” or to “not care fore”, or “like” anything.

  I kept asking myself, why would Albert Pike think we should not like anything? It was only after further delving that I learned that the noun had a different meaning a hundred and sixty years ago, as does much of the archaic language we encounter in Freemasonry today. It literally means being free of bias and self-interest; or impartial. That to be a Provost and Judge, or a Sublime Elect of the Twelve requires a Sage like internal moral and ethical code, an emotional and mental state of being that must be imbued.

  

  To be a Sage is to have ascended the pyramid of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, or the 7 levels of consciousness taught to us by the yogi sages, whereby in doing so one has almost thought of or felt so much that they experience an almost abyssal melancholy from the futileness of life, and then an acceptance, finally followed by an inner peace of knowing that it is all a divine river, and we a but mere passengers whereby going against the current is more of a waste than a sin. Thus making the enlightened free of bias, or distraction, and freeing the individual for service in the highest sense, and altruistic love.


It is very interesting that the proletarians spend their entire lives serving someone or something for a few coins, and never realizing their plight, while those in the middle of the curve of illumination serve but detest it, and those at the pentacle of enlightenment serve freely because they see that assisting the divine plan is the most noble thing a person can do.


Every thing we do, every cord of wood we cut, every soul we facilitate, every dish we clean is Zen, and it’s our choice weather or not we leave this world better then when we came into it.

I was born in antiquity, in the ancient days when men first dreamed of God. I have been tried through the ages, and found true. The crossroads of the world bear the imprint of my feet, and the cathedrals of all nations mark the skill of my hands. I strive for beauty and for symmetry. In my heart is wisdom and strength and courage for those who ask. Upon my alters is the Book of Holy Writ, and my prayers are to the One Omnipotent God, my sons work and pray together, without rank or discord, in the public mart and in the inner chamber. By signs and symbols I teach the lessons of life and of death and the relationship of man with God and of man with man. My arms are widespread to receive those of lawful age and good report who seek me of their own free will. I accept them and teach them to use my tools in the building of men, and thereafter, find direction in their own quest for perfection so much desired and so difficult to attain. I lift up the fallen and shelter the sick. I hark to the orphans' cry, the widows tears, the pain of the old and destitute. I am not church, nor party, nor school, yet my sons bear a full share of responsibility to God, to country, to neighbor and themselves. They are freemen, tenacious of their liberties and alert to lurking danger. At the end I commit them as each one undertakes the journey beyond the vale into the glory of everlasting life. I ponder the sand within the glass and think how small is a single life in the eternal universe. Always have I taught immortality, and even as I raise men from darkness into light, I am a way of life. I Am Freemasonry.

Fraternal Greetings!
Welcome to the deviantart community for fellow Freemasons. From the newest E.A. to the oldest M.M. all brothers and fellows are welcome here as is their art representing Freemasonry.
To those who are not associated with freemasonry I encourage you to look around, find some new friends and perhaps approach someone you know already engaged in the fraternity and find out more about it. Remember, 2B1ASK1. No secrets will be revealed on this website so sorry if that's what you're looking for, but any questions or kind words you'd like to leave for us will be greatly appriciated. Enjoy you're time here at the deviantart Freemasons community.

*I humbly encourage brother masons to add us to your watch list. By adding us it lets us know who amoungst us are engaged in the Craft, and provides and oppertunity to spread the masonic cement. Find other masons on DA perhaps in your own state, or country.


*TRESTLE BOARD*
    This sites intention is to spread the Masonic cement and connect brothers around the world through art of our shared love and affiliation of Freemasonry. This is any not one persons deviantart page; it belongs to every brother who wishes to be a member of this group. It is my hope that through mediums like deviantart.com we can give freemasons around the world a way to connect as we never have before. Since the starting of this site we have had the privilege of meeting around sixteen new brothers from all over the USA, Ireland, Canada, and Mexico. I am glad to know that the ideals of freemasonry are not exclusive to the individual country and that all our brothers out there are living by the obligation we all took and we are remembering that we are living on our three grand principals: Brotherly Love, Relief, and Truth. I open this trestle board to any brother who wishes to make his advances in masonry known, and I hope that many, many announcements will be made. As time goes on I hope to add new and perhaps better ways of opening communication between brothers but if you have and idea already please, add it on. Like I said, this is YOUR site too. Thank you for reading this and I look forward to seeing what comes up
                Fraternally Yours,
                      Robert S. Pfau M.M.

Tonight, our brother Robert Burns, turned 251 years old. And though he has long since passed, Robert was once again celebrated this eve by a traditional eating of the Haggis and reading of the poems he wrote. To all those out there who are unfamiliar with Robbie Burns, I encorage you to look him up. there is one poem on this site by him, but many more that are of wonderful merrit in there own right. Here's to you Robbie! Fraternity has ruled the hour, 'gin by we who wear the Apron!