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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
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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
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Mar
April
4 - OES #8
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13 - WM #3 10 - WM #3
10 - WM #3 14 - WM #3
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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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