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Volume 11 Issue 3
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Happy Birthday
Harold Benjamin
George Colgate
Harold
Comerford
Eric Ecklund
Allen
Kennedy
Jack Martyn
George Maslovar
Henry Parmley
Kenneth Ramsey
Albert Sanders
Douglas Skowron
John Trojanovich
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Masonic Birthday
David Garnett(33)
Bill Greenen(12)
Allen Kennedy(17)
Milton Kramer(33)
James Malott Jr(64)
Earl “Ed”
Warner(5)
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Masonic Deaths
To all Americans who have given the supreme sacrifice for our
Country.
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March Schedule
13th
9am – Coffee & Donuts
10am – Lodge Stated Meeting
18-20
Grand
Lodge of New Mexico
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April Schedule
10th
9am – Coffee & Donuts
10am
– Lodge Stated Meeting
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Sickness and
Distress
Frank Sheppard
Dave Porter
Ben McGowen
Robert Brisbin (DDGM/DDGL)
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FROM
THE EAST
My Brothers,
This has been a travelin month for
me at work. I have been gone almost the entire month and have to
get this out because I'm leaving tomorrow and won't be back until
our stated meeting. I would like to pay some wages and thank our
Secretary, Paul Dore' for a wonderful Sweetheart luncheon. We had
several of our widows there along with our wives. Paul and his
wife, Linda, have been collecting gifts for the Ladies all year
just for this luncheon. I believe the Ladies had a great time and
really appreciate the fact that we appreciate them.
Next stated meeting is our Law
Enforcement luncheon, I would like as many as possible plan on
attending. The luncheon will be at DeMarco's.
I'm still trying to nail down the
Search for the Charter. Visit the web site for more up to date
information. WM Mike Bishop would like to have it in his term but
time is getting short and the Grand Lodge of New Mexico is this
month and we need a date. Ken Stone's grandson is looking to get
raised in our lodge in May so we may have to choose a off weekend
for the search.
I started a building fund back in
2002 and not much has been said about it it since. We have
depleted that fund with the roof repairs and now a termite problem
which will be expensive as well. I asking for help in rebuilding
the fund. Starting next month, I will be posting the names of
contributers to the fund in the trestleboard. I'm going to to call
it the “Operative Master Builder Wall” for you can say
we are repairing out temporal Temple. I will break it into
categories of EA, FC, MM where <$50 is an EA, $50-$100 is FC,
and >$100 is a MM. Brothers, this is serious. With the help of
many of our Brothers, we have done a considerable amount of work
to make out Temple beautiful. I have received nothing but raving
comments about our lodge from visitors. It's an our and beautiful
building and will need a loving care to keep it that way. Our dues
have been one of the lowest in the state for many years. Our other
Brothers have paid from 2 to 3 times our dues every year and we
have had to raise them recently. This is a call for those that can
afford to help. Thank you in advance.
God Bless,
Bill Greenen, Master
Secretary's
Desk
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2010 Officers
Worshipful
Master Bill Greenen, KYCH (480-510-4241)
Senior
Warden Earl Warner (928-425-7715)
Junior
Warden Fred
Marquardt (602-575-4946)
Secretary Paul
Dore' Sr, KYCH (928-425-2891
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Treasurer
Scott Teichrow, PM (928-425-8293)
Senior
Deacon Jerry Dubois (928-595-2386)
Junior
Deacon Art Salcido Jr.(928-402-8242)
Chaplain
Ralph Gerhardt, PM
Marshall
Harold Benjamin, PM
Senior Steward Dell
Long 520-297-7656
Junior Steward Timothy
Humprey
Tyler
Doug Skowron, KYCH
Trustees:
Ralph
Gerhardt, PM, 2014
Howard
Billingsley, KYCH, 2013
Earl
Warner
2012
Robert
Gillette, PM 2011
Harold
Benjamin,
PM, 2010
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O.E.S. #8 Luncheon
February
13th
DeMarco's
Law
Enforcement Luncheon
Committees
Public Schools - Ed
Warner
Widows
- Ed Warner
Education - W. Howard
Billingsley
By-Laws - MW Oscar Lyon
Jr.
Membership - WB. Doug
Skowron
Community Events - Art
Salcido
“Search For The Charter” - TBD
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Meeting
Calendar 2010
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Mar
3
- OES #8
13
- WM #3
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Apr
7
- OES #8
10
- WM #3
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May
5
- OES #8
8
- WM #3
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Jun
2
- OES #8
12
- WM #3
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Jul
7
- OES #8
10
- WM #3
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Something
to Think About
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T.F.S.
Three, five, and seven
3 5 7
Number
165 - February 20, 2010
"Numbers constitute the only
universal language." Nathanael West
This publication,
while it is printed with the permission of the Mos tWorshipful
Grand Lodge of A.F. & A. M. of Minnesota, contains
thewritings and opinions of the writer, and is not in any way the
opinion of the Grand Lodge of Minnesota.
"Discipline
is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers
formidable;procures success to the weak, and esteem to all."
President and W.Bro. George Washington
Freemasonry and 153
Fish by Elliott Saxton
Member of the Grand Lodge Education
Committee of the Grand Lodge of Minnesota Freemasonry teaches
through metaphors, numbers, geometry and symbols in general. It
is a progressive science that encourages us to become better men
through the study of the liberal arts and sciences, especially
geometry.
The 47th proposition of Euclid is a central
symbol to freemasonry and teaches masons to be general lovers of
the arts and sciences. There
are two reasons that may explain
why it is a prominent symbol within freemasonry.
Firstly,
it was believed to be a highly guarded secret within the
Pythagorean mystery school because it shows that the universe is
ordered by numbers and gives the appearance of design by a great
creator. Secondly, it is simple in its design and complex in its
explanation and interpretation.
Like masonry as a whole,
it is plain and practical on its face, yet abstract and
theoretical when studied further.
The 1st proposition of
Euclid is likewise simple in its notions and complex in its
meaning, it was likely chosen as the first because of how
strikingly it shows this attribute of being simple in notion and
complex in meaning.
The 1st proposition of Euclid shows
how a equilateral triangle can be constructed by beginning with
two points within a circle. The circles surrounding the points
are arranged so that the circle of both overlaps the points of
both. By drawing a line between the points and the intersection
of the circles, a equilateral triangle is created. This symbol
and the resulting fish shaped symbol is more well-know and has
been remarked on throughout history. The fish shaped symbol
within the 1st proposition of Euclid is often called the 'Vesica
piscis'. In the Pythagorean tradition, the height to width ratio
of the fish was 265:153. As a result, 153 was referred to as the
number of the fish.
There are interesting religious
examples of the number 153 being connected to fish. It appears in
Pythagorean legend, the gospel of John, and likely as a result,
the historian Jerome estimated the total varieties of fish to be
153. In the Pythagorean legend, Pythagoras traveled from Sybaris
to Croton. On his way he met some fishermen who had caught a
large number of fish. He asked them if he could guess how many
fish they had caught, if they would give them to him. He
proclaimed that they had 153 fish. They humored him and counted
out the fish. To their surprise, there were indeed 153 fish in
their net. When asked what they wanted him to do with his fish,
he told them to set them back. Miraculously, despite the long
length of time they had been out of the water, every fish
survived. A strikingly similar story is recorded in John 21:1-14.
John 21:11 reads "Simon Peter climbed aboard and dragged the
net ashore. It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many
the net was not torn." The apostles were told to be 'fishers
of men'.
In these examples, the number 153 is associated
with the fish. The number 264, the first number in the ratio of
the fish can be seen as the net. The 265 is a square lattice
number, in that it can be arranged as a lattice, like how the
number five is represented on dice. Corresponding with the twelve
apostles being charged with being fishers of men, the number 265
is the twelfth square lattice number. Further, the last digit in
all square lattice numbers repeats the digits of the number of
the fish; 1,5,3,5,1.
The net always 'catches' the last
digit of the fish, and always will, no matter how large the
number; even with so many, the 'net' will not tear.
These
geometrical propositions show us how relatively simple symbols
can hold deeper meaning and through another person's
interpretation can teach with a fuller meaning and take on a life
of its own, separate from its author's intent. Masonry is like
that, its symbols take on a life of their own when interpreted
and understood from our own experiences.
"Hamming's
Motto: The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers."
Hamming
Words to live by: Whatever special gift you have
been given, celebrate it and share it as often as possible.
From volumes of Sacred Law:
"Moreover, man
does not know his time: like fish caught in a treacherous net and
birds trapped in a snare, so the sons of men are ensnared at an
evil time when it suddenly falls on them."
Ecclesiastes
9:12 - NASB Tanakh
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