02/06/2026
Greetings, brethren and friends! Our next stated meeting will be this coming Monday, February 9th. Dinner at 6PM, meeting at 7:30. The night’s education will be a short paper on the history and symbolism of Chalk, Charcoal, and Clay. The meeting is open to all master masons in good standing. We hope you can come and enjoy the evening with us!
Today’s education is from the Grand Lodge of Maine Lodge Officer Handbook concerning that state’s definition of masonry. Enjoy!
Freemasonry is a charitable, benevolent, educational and religious society. Its principles are proclaimed as widely as men will hear. Its only secrets are in its methods of recognition and of symbolic instructions. It is charitable in that it is not organized for profit and none of its income inures to the benefit of any individual, but all is devoted to the promotion of the welfare and happiness of mankind. It is benevolent in that it teaches and exemplifies altruism as a duty. It is educational in that is teaches by prescribed ceremonials a system of morality and brotherhood based upon the Sacred Law. It is religious in that it teaches monotheism, the Holy Bible is open upon its altars whenever a Lodge is in session, reverence for God is ever present in its ceremonial, and to its brethren are constantly addressed lessons of morality; yet it is not sectarian or theological. It is a social organization only so far as it furnished additional inducement that men may forgather in numbers, thereby providing more material for its primary work of education, of worship, and of charity.