Volume 12 Issue 8

Visit us on the web:      September 2011

http://www.whitemountain3.org

Happy Birthday

Harold Davis

Bill Greenen

Ted Palmer

Wes Parmenter

Masonic Birthday

Darryl Dalley(8)

Harold Davis(47)

Ralph Gerhardt(47)

Ted Palmer(26)

Terry Tanner(26)

Masonic Deaths

To all Americans who have given the supreme sacrifice for our Country.

September Schedule

10th

9am – Pancake Breakfast

10am – Lodge Stated Meeting

2pm – Royal Arch – Re-Constitution of Globe Chapter #7

October Schedule

8th

9am – Pancake Breakfast

10am – Lodge Stated Meeting

1pm – Royal Arch

Sickness and Distress

Dave Porter

Ben McGowen

Howard Billingsley

(Those who have contributed to the building fund for 2011)

White Mountain Lodge Builders

Entered Apprentice

None

Fellowcraft

Bill Greenen

Master Builder

Troy Walker

2011 Officers

Worshipful Master Earl Warner (928-425-7715)

jwew98@yahoo.com

Senior Warden     Fred Marquardt   (602-575-4946)

tfmarquardt@aol.com

Junior Warden      Jerry Dubois, PM (928-595-2386)

jjdubois85532@gmail.com

Secretary       Paul Dore' Sr, KYCH (928-425-2891 )

pauldoresr@cox.net

Treasurer         Scott Teichrow, PM (928-425-8293)

rsteichrow@yahoo.com

Senior Deacon    Timothy Humphrey

Junior Deacon    Forrest Hammer

Chaplain           Ralph Gerhardt, PM

Marshall            Harold Benjamin, PM

Senior Steward   Bill Sneyd

Junior Steward   Howard Billingsley

Tyler        Bill Greenen, KYCH (480-510-4241)

Trustees:

Harold Benjamin, PM,    2015  

Ralph Gerhardt, PM, 2014

Howard Billingsley, KYCH,  2013

Earl Warner                   2012   

Timothy Humphrey 2011

 O.E.S. #8 Luncheon

^{Next Luncheon}

^{September 10}

^{China Taste}

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” - Bill Greenen

Highway Cleanup – Tim Humphrey

Meeting Calendar 2011

Sep

7 – OES #8

10 - WM #3

Oct

5 – OES #8

8 - WM #3

Nov

2 – OES #8

12 - WM #3

Dec

7 – OES #8

10 - WM #3

Jan 2012

4 – OES #8

14 - WM #3

Secretary's Desk

Search for the Charter TBD (Not November 12)

We are looking into having a get together on Friday night with our New Mexico Brothers who come in early with possibly a dinner. More to come ...

Anyone wishing to help please contact Bill Greenen.

FROM THE  HIGH PRIEST  

Companions & candidates

The Grand Chapter officers will open the Grand Royal Arch Chapter at 2 PM – at the Globe Masonic Temple. Only Royal Arch masons can be in attendance during the opening ceremonies.  At approximately 2:30 PM all masons and

guests will be welcome to attend the rededication of the Globe Royal Arch Chapter No. 7.

This will be the first Chapter dedication ceremony in Arizona since King Solomon Chapter #22 was dedicated October 20, 1974. (37 years ago)

Four (4) Corner Royal Arch Festival (The four Chapter degrees will be conferred by Colorado, Utah, New Mexico & Arizona) will be held on Saturday October 1^st. In Holbrook, Arizona.  To date all six of our candidates and 10 of our Royal Arch Chapter members plan to attend .I will have registration forms, which include the program for the men & ladies at our September 10^th meeting. Most of our members and candidates from Globe plan to car pool the morning of October 1^st. Call or e-mail me if you have any questions.

Paul J Dore Sr.

Globe Chapter No. 7

High Priest

Something to Think About

This issue of Mehr Licht has to do with Oaths: The information below comes from the writings of Brother Albert Mackey in Mackey's Encyclopedia of Freemasonry. This book is well worth reading and learning from; and it can be found as an E-book on-line at <http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/>

OATH, CORPORAL
The modern form of taking an oath is by placing the hands on the Gospels or on the Bible. The corporate, or corporal both, is the name of the linen cloth on which, in the Roman Catholic Church, the sacred elements consecrated as "the body of our Lord" are placed. Hence the expression corporal oath originated in the ancient custom of swearing while touching the corporal cloth. Relics were sometimes made use of. The laws of the Allemanni (chapter 657), direct that he who swears shall place his hand upon the coffer containing the relics. The idea being that something sacred must be touched by the hand of the jurator to give validity to the oath, in time the custom was adopted of substituting the holy Gospels for the corporal cloth or the relics, though the same title was retained.
Haydn (Dictionary ok Dates) says that the practice of swearing on the Gospels prevailed in England as early as 528 A.D. The laws of the Lombards repeatedly mention the custom of swearing on the Gospels. The sanction of the church was given at an early period to the usage. Thus, in the history of the Council of Constantinople, 381 A.D., it is stated that "George, the well-beloved of God, a Deacon and Keeper of the Records, having touched the Holy Gospels of God, swore in this manner," etc. A similar practice was adopted at the Council of Alice, fifty-six years before. The custom of swearing on the Book, thereby meaning the Gospels, was adopted by the Medieval Gild of Freemasons, and allusions to it are found in all the Old Constitutions. Thus in the York Manuscript, No. 1, about the year 1600, it is said, "These charges . . . you shall well and truly keep to your power; so help you God and by the contents of that Book." And in the Grand Lodge Manuscript No. 1, in 1583 we find this: "These charges ye shall keep, so help you God, and your haly dome and by this book in your hand unto your power." The form of the ceremony required that the corporal
oath should be taken with both hands on the book, or with one hand, and then always the right hand.

The practice of kissing the book, which became so well established in England, appears in the Middle Ages (see J. E. Tyler, Oaths, pages 119 and 151).

OATH, TILER'S
Before any strange and unknown visitor can gain admission into a Masonic Lodge, he is required in the United States of America to take the following oath:

I, A. B., do hereby and hereon solemnly and sincerely swear that I have been regularly initiated, passed, and raised to the sublime Degree of a Master Mason in a just and legally constituted Lodge of such; that I do not now stand suspended or expelled; and know of no reason why I should not hold Masonic communication with my Brethren.
It is called the Tiler's Oath, because it is usually taken in the Tiler's room, and was formerly administered by that officer, whose duty it is to protect the Lodge from the approach of unauthorized visitors. It is now administered by the Committee of Examination, and not only he to whom it is administered, but he who administers it, and all who are present, must take it at the same time. It is a process of purgation, and each one present, the visitor as well as the members of the Lodge, is entitled to know that all the others are legally qualified to be present at the esoteric examination which is about to take place. This custom is unknown in English Freemasonry.

Words to live by: It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. Aeschylus