Kirk & Picard

When an organization, such as Freemasonry, has been around for so long, it must have gone through significant changes.

Can you name some of the changes?

Were they good or bad?

Divest Themselves?

Can vices and superfluities eventually divest themselves?

Picketing

It's always a good idea to look at what you are planning on doing, before you actually do it.

What do Masons use to accomplish this task?

Members Only

Freemasons are not supposed to recruit, solicit, or pressure anyone to join our fraternity.

Men are supposed to come of their own free will and accord.

Why then do we have membership and retention problems?
And... what's a good solution?

Valentine's Day

The legend of St. Valentine describes him as a Patron Saint against plagues.

The legend states that he cured the daughter of a Roman officer of blindness.

This made him an enemy of the state of Rome, and a "Saint" to the Christians.

Do you think he'd know how to get rid of this Covid business?

Pieta & Neoplatonism

How does Renaissance Era "Neoplatonism" apply to current Masonic ideas?

Pietà, 1498–99, by Michaelangelo. St. Peter's Basilica, Rome

Good vs. Evil

Unless you are truly capable of evil deeds,
your good deeds are meaningless.

Shakespeare's "All's Well That Ends Well"

“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud,if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues.”

- William Shakespeare

All's Well That Ends Well

Act IV, Scene 3