TMV #35

12/04/2025

10/17/2025

As the mind ascends toward Light, its horizon stretches, and with it, the shadow of its own ignorance. Each jewel of wisdom uncovered reveals not mastery, but mystery; not arrival, but the vastness of the path ahead. Thus the true Freemason, in gaining knowledge, gains humility, for he sees that the Temple of Truth is infinite, and he is but a pilgrim at its gate.
This sacred thirst, the yearning to know, to understand, to draw nearer to the Divine Architect, is not quenched by answers, but deepened by awe. And so we labor, not to possess all knowledge, but to be worthy of its pursuit.

08/29/2024

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Why does Freemasonry instruct us to study Rhetoric, one of the Seven Liberal Arts and Sciences? This ancient discipline, respected ...

08/06/2024

02/26/2024

I recently reread a statement given on this [BYU] campus years ago by Charles H. Malik, then secretary general of the United Nations. He said:

I respect all men, and it is from disrespect for none that I say there are no great leaders in the world today. In fact, greatness itself is laughed to scorn. You should not be great today—you should sink yourself into the herd, you should not be distinguished from the crowd, you should simply be one of the many.

The commanding voice is lacking. The voice which speaks little, but which when it speaks, speaks with compelling moral authority—this kind of voice is not congenial to this age. The age flattens and levels down every distinction into drab uniformity. Respect for the high, the noble, the great, the rare, the specimen that appears once every hundred or every thousand years, is gone. Respect at all is gone! If you ask whom and what people do respect, the answer is literally nobody and nothing. This is simply an unrespecting age—it is the age of utter mediocrity. To become a leader today, even a mediocre leader, is a most uphill struggle. You are constantly and in every way and from every side pulled down. One wonders who of those living today will be remembered a thousand years from now—the way we remember with such profound respect Plato, and Aristotle, and Christ, and Paul, and Augustine, and Aquinas.

If you believe in prayer, my friends, and I know you do, then pray that God send great leaders, especially great leaders of the spirit. [Charles H. Malik, “Forum Address” (18 November 1975), BYU Studies 16, no. 4 (Summer 1976): 543–44]..
..in this world so filled with problems, so constantly threatened by dark and evil challenges, you can and must rise above mediocrity, above indifference.

Gordon B. Hinckley encourages all to stand up for truth, for integrity, for loyalty, for all that is good. The world is counting on you.

11/21/2022

We are very sorry to announce that this year's Christmas play, "It's a Wonderful Life," has been cancelled.

Many thanks to Wendy and the Hyart for their efforts to help make this play happen, but unfortunately, we couldn't make it work. We hope to make another try later on.

Thanks to all who bought tickets and offered support. We'll see that you're refunded your money.

Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas!