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Volume 8 Issue 1

Visit us on the web:      January 2007

www.whitemountain3.org    

126 Years of Masonry in Globe/Miami

Happy New Year!!

From: White Mountain Lodge #3

Brethren, behold your Master

 

 

HAPPY Birthday 

Cline W. Armstrong

Roye E.Colyott

Burton Corbett

Harold V. Foster

Floyd L. Harrington

Kenneth C. Hood

Martin J. Kornhass

David C. Porter

Milton W. Sloan

John E. Thayer

 

 Masonic  Birthdays

 

Frank Stapleton(26)

 

January Schedule

13th

9am – Coffee & Donuts

10am – Lodge

12pm - Lunch with Star

February Schedule

10th

9am – Coffee & Donuts

10am – Lodge

12pm - Lunch with Star

 

.                        2007 Officers

Worshipful Master R. Scott Teichrow (928-425-8293)

Senior Warden     William Garrard, PM (602-866-8204)

Junior Warden      Robert Gillette, PM

Secretary            Joe A. Henry PM (928-425-6686)

Treasurer            Oscar T. Lyon Jr., PGM  (602-252-2739)

Senior Deacon    Earl Warner

Junior Deacon     Brad Busler, PM

Chaplain             Paul Dore' Sr, PM

Marshall             Ralph A. Gerhardt. PM

Senior Steward   Howard Billingsley, PM

Junior Steward    Art Salcido Jr.

Tyler                  Henry Johnson

Trustees:

Robert Gillette, PM        2011

Henry London, PM,        2010  

Paul Dore' Sr. PM,         2009  

Howard Billingsley, PM, 2008

R Scott Teichrow,          2007   

Committees

 

Public Schools - Bro. Jim Heimer

Widows - W. Rusty Moore

Kids Voting - W. Rusty Moore

Education - W. Howard Billingsley

By-Laws - MW Oscar Lyon Jr.

Membership - WB. Doug Skowron

Community Events - W. Paul Dore' Sr.

 

Meeting Calendar 2007

      Jan                   Feb              Mar              April

    4 - OES #8    1- OES #8   1- OES #8     5- OES #8

  13 - WM #3    10 - WM #3  10 - WM #3  14 - WM #3

 

 

OES #8 Luncheon

 

January 10th 12:00pm


Bikes for Books

Thanks to all the Brothers who donated bicycles. All bicycles have been donated by the Brothers of this lodge. Congratulations!

 

 

Our 2007 Officers

(Including Installing Officers)

Something to Think About

In symbolic masonry, 3, 5, and 7 are mystic numbers, as is 9 in Holy Royal Arch Masonry, and in the ineffable degrees, 9, with its products, such as 27 and 81 are sacred.

The mystical meaning and divine virtue of numbers formed an important part of the philosophy of Pythagoras, and from him have been transmitted to the masonic system of symbolism. In numbers Pythagoras saw the principle of all things; he believed that the creation of the world was produced by their harmonious combination, and that they existed before the world.

Pythagoras was born at Samos, Greece, about 568 BC. He visited Chaldae and Egypt, the seats of learning and philosophy, and gaining the confidence of the priests, he obtained from them a knowledge of their mysteries and their symbolic writings. Upon his return to Europe, he settled at the town of Crotona, in Magna Grecia, where he established the school which afterwards rendered him so illustrious as a teacher of philosophy.

He believed in the universal influence of numbers, which he supposed to be the controlling principle of all things. According to the doctrine of this sage, numbers are of two kinds, intellectual and scientific.

Intellectual numbers have always existed in the divine mind; it is the basis of universal order, and the link which binds all things.

Scientific number is the generative cause of multiplicity, which proceeds from and is the result of unity. Scientific numbers are equal or odd.

Equal numbers are said to be female, and odd ones, male; because even numbers admit of division or generation, which odd ones do not. Odd numbers, however, are the most perfect.

To each number Pythagoras ascribed a peculiar character and quality.
ONE, -- the Monad, -- represented the central fire, or God, without beginning and without end, the point within the circle. It also denoted love, concord, piety, and friendship, because it is indivisible. It was the symbol of identity, equality, existence, and universal preservation and harmony.
TWO was unlucky, and as one denoted light and the good principle or God, two denoted darkness and the evil principle. Hence it was that the Romans dedicated the second month of the year to Pluto, the god of hell, and the second day of that month to the manes of the dead.
THREE referred to harmony, friendship, peace, concord, and temperance, and was so highly esteemed among the Pythagoreans that they called this number "perfect harmony."
FOUR was a divine number; it referred to the Deity, and among the ancients many nations gave to God a name of four letters.
FIVE denoted light, nature, marriage; the latter because it was made up of the female two and male three, whence it is sometimes called a hermaphrodite number. The triple triangle, which was a figure of five lines uniting into five points, was among the Pythagorean an emblem of health.
SIX was also an emblem of health, and it was also the symbol of justice because it was the perfect number, that is, one whose aliquot parts being added together make itself, for the aliquot parts of six, which are three, two and one, are equal to six.
SEVEN was highly esteemed, and called the venerable number because it referred to the creation of the world.
EIGHT was esteemed as the first cube (2x2x2) and signified friendship, prudence, counsel, and justice. It designated the primitive law of nature, which supposes all men to be equal.
NINE was called perfect, finish, because, nine months are the period required for the perfection of a human being in the womb before birth.
TEN was denominated heaven, because it was the perfection and consummation of all things, and was constituted by the union of ONE, the monad or active principle, TWO, the duad or passive principle, THREE, the triad or world proceeding from their union and FOUR, the sacred tetractys, thus 1+2+3+4=10. Hence Ten contained all the relations, numerical and harmonic.

The Pythagoreans extended still farther their speculations on the first three numbers, the monad, the duad, and the triad.

The monad was male, because its action produces no change in itself, but only out of itself. It represented the creative principle.

The duad, for contrary reason, was female, being ever changing by addition, subtraction, or multiplication. It represents matter capable of form.
The union of the monad and duad produce the triad, which signifies the world formed by the creative principle out of matter. This world Pythagoras represented by the right angled triangle, because the square of the longest side is equal to the square of the two other sides, and the world as it is formed is equal to the formative cause and matter clothed with form.
Nigel Gallimore, PM/UGLE
Southern California Research Lodge
Scottish Rite Research Society

 

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