Copper Board

Volume 16 Issue 7      Dec 2015

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Happy Birthday

December

Brad Busler

Darrly Dalley

Ralph Gerhardt

James Mills

James Webb

Masonic Birthday

December

Stan Gibson(65)

Bruce Maxwell(48)


Masonic Deaths

Douglas Skowron, KYCH 1931-2015

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

Dec Schedule

12th

8am Clothe-a-Child - Beale's

9am – Pancake Breakfast

10am – Lodge Stated Meeting

11am - Installation

12pm – Lunch

1:30pm – Chapter #7 R.A.M

Jan Schedule

12th

9am – Pancake Breakfast

10am – Lodge Stated Meeting

12pm – Lunch

12PM - Grotto Mtg

1:30pm – Chapter #7 R.A.M

Sickness and Distress

Jerry DuBois

Jim Gibson

Meeting Calendar 2015/2016

Dec 2015

3 – OES #8

12 - WM #3

Jan 2016

7 – OES #8

9 – WM #3

Feb 2016

4 – OES #8

13 – WM #3

Mar 2016

7 – OES #8

9 - WM #3

Apr 2016

7 – OES #8

9 - WM #3



2016 Officers

Worshipful Master Bill Greenen, KYCH (480-510-4241)(bg_mason@yahoo.com)

Senior Warden Ed Fox ( (DRLEFOX@cox.net)

Junior Warden Jim Rasmussen, PM

jwew98@yahoo.com

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

pauldoresr@cox.net

Treasurer     Scott Teichrow, PM (928-425-8293)rsteichrow@yahoo.com

Senior Deacon Earl Warner PM(928-425-7715)jwew98@yahoo.com

Junior Deacon   Tim Schrowang

Chaplain             Ralph Gerhardt, PM

Marshall             Forrest Hammer, PM

Senior Steward   Rodney Burden

Junior Steward   Bill Sneyd

Tyler                    Timothy Humphrey, PM

Trustees:

Ralph Gerhardt, PM, 2019

Rodney Burden, 2018

Forrest Hammer, 2017

Timothy Humphrey, 2016

Harold Benjamin, PM,  2015 



Committees

Public Schools - Ed Warner 

Widows - Ed Warner

Education – Ed Fox

By-Laws – Paul Dore' Sr.

Membership – Paul Dore' Sr

Community Events - Art Salcido

Highway Cleanup – Tim Humphrey

Trestleboard – Bill Greenen

Master-Elect Corner

Brethren,

I wish to thank all who thought that I was the right man for the position of Master (I could get a proficiency card). I guess the members thought I needed more practice and maybe the third time I could get it right (chuckle..chuckle). Either way, I have seen the lodge through a lot of changes over the last sixteen years. From a lodge who could barely field a core of officers to a lodge that is sponsoring a Clothe-A-Child this Saturday, presenting six bicycles to kids for reading, honoring our Public Safety Officers and Firefighters, getting some publicity in the newspapers. All this we didn't have when I was raised. This is my sixteenth year of doing this trestleboard which was published for thirteen years before. Yes Brothers, we have come a long way, but farther we must go. We still have a lack of local brothers because we don't seem interested in telling the good men of Globe/Miami what we have to offer. We have been blessed with many Valley Brothers who have taken to the warmth and friendliness of the lodge to want to affiliate. We have also seen Brothers who have moved into the area affiliate. But most of all we need to become more visible in the community. I plan on suggesting a program to do just that this next year along with continuing our on going programs. I need everyone's help. There are many Brothers of this lodge who I have never seen or haven't seen in a long while. I need you to consider returning and help make this lodge what it used to be, a pillar of the community. I report more about my plans once I bring it up to the lodge for consideration.

We have a new tenet in the Lodge, Ramses Grotto has requested to use the lodge for their meetings starting in January. They will meet following our Stated meetings. The Grotto is said to be the poor man's Shrine and support challenged children's dentistry. Stop by to talk to them.

On a sad note, we lost a very good Brother on Dec 7th, Doug Skowron. Past Master of White Mountain as well as Apache 69 and Camelback 75. His devotion to Masonry will be missed. He was the last of my Masonic Mentors while I was growing up in the fraternity and a good friend. He's now trying to convince Saint Peter that he would be a good candidate for Master of the Lodge above (smile). God bless him.

Bill Greenen, Master-Elect

Secretary's Desk

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Paul J Dore Sr.

Secretary

White Mountain Lodge No. 3

pauldoresr@cox.net

928-425-2891

602-920-0456



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Something to Think About

Ark of the Covenant*

By Ed Halpaus

In Blue Lodge Masonry we learn a that a Lodge should be situated due East and West because that was the way Moses set the Tabernacle that God had instructed him to build. The Tabernacle was a place for the
Priests to worship, and for the people to offer sacrifices as well as a place to house the Ark of the Covenant.

We don’t hear much about the Ark of the Covenant in the Three Degrees of Masonry, except that it was placed in the Sanctum Santorum of King Solomon’s Temple. However those who pursue other degrees will find the Ark of the Covenant mentioned more in those degrees.

As long as I mentioned other degrees I will comment that in Freemasonry we say there is no higher degree than that of Master Mason, which is true; however there are other degrees such as the degrees contained in the Scottish and York Rites of Masonry, which will give the Masonic Student much more to learn and apply when it comes to studying Freemasonry. If you would like to know more about those degrees, so that you can enjoy Masonry more, check with some of your Lodge Brothers about the York and Scottish Rites, I’m sure they will be pleased to tell you about them.

The Ark of the Covenant was constructed according to God’s directions given to Moses. The Ark was constructed by Bezaleel and Aholiab. The Ark of the Covenant is referred to in the Bible by other names as
well; The Ark of the Testimony, The Ark of the Covenant of the Lord, The Ark of the Lord God of Israel, and The Ark of God, to name some of them. The various names applied to the Ark of the Covenant indicate the high veneration in which the Ark was held by the people.[i] Among ancient people an ark was thought of as a symbol of the receptacle of life, and the interior of the ark symbolized the place where life came into
being, so the Ark of the Covenant therefore was held in great reverence as the Holy of Holies[ii] and
it should be kept in a sacred place such as the Tabernacle or Temple.

When we think of the Ark of the Covenant and the Tabernacle in the Wilderness we will remember that there was a cloud called The Shekinah[iii] It first appeared when Moses consecrated the Tabernacle and then it appeared upon the consecration of the Temple of Solomon. The Shekinah is a visible cloud of light; it is a symbol of Divinity or Divine Glory, but as the true glory of Divinity is truth and righteousness therefore Divine Truth is The Shekinah of Masonry.[iv] “As the disappearance of The Shekinah from the Ark of the Covenant of the Israelites signified the withdrawal of the divine presence, and was accompanied by disaster and destruction, so in like manner the disappearance of Divine Truth and Righteousness from Masonry would presage the same sad ending of this order.”[v] “Masonry is not a mere social institution. Its antiquity, its universality, and its active vitality under widely divergent conditions seem to prove that it was founded and continued under Divine Approval. It is for us to see to it that we do not, like the Israelites, become self-confident by reason of our strength and prosperity and wander away to strange gods and thus lose
our Shekinah, our Divine Presence, and come to destruction.”[vi]

“Among all ancient races the ark was a symbol of salvation, its preservation implied safety, sanctifying the nation who honored it as the abiding place of Divine wisdom and
power.”[vii]

To the Mason the word Ark suggests a mystery; an Arcanum or Arcana which are Latin words meaning secrets or mysteries.[viii] “The Ark symbolizes the Divine Presence manifesting in us. The ark of the
living temple- Man – is the soul, and between the mystic Cherubim (will and intellect) the Most High reveals himself to the true initiate. The ark was made of Acacia wood and Acacia is the symbol of eternity. The ark was overlaid with plates of gold, and gold is the emblem of the Sun, and the Sun is the ancient symbol of
Deity.”[ix]


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