King Solomon Lodge #95 A. F. & A. M.

10/16/2026

The longest serving 33° Mason, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin.

10/14/2026

Stated Meeting this evening. WB Daren Presley in the East, WB Jim Hossenlopp in the West, and WB Bob Thompson in the South.

10/13/2026

It was 719 years ago today.

On this day, 713 years ago, Friday, October 13th, 1307, the corrupt King Philip IV (also known as Philip the Fair) ordered Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar together with scores of other French Templars to be simultaneously arrested and later executed.

Histories recount that the King coerced the Pope to sign arrest warrants which were then distributed throughout France. These secret warrants were to all be opened at the same time with directions to arrest the Templars at dawn on Friday, October 13th, 1307. De Molay was previously summoned to France by Pope Clement V to discuss merging the Templars and the Hospitallers, a proposition to which neither order was amenable. Despite the quick arrest of 139 Knights, apparently no treasure was found and the entire naval fleet of the Templars had disappeared.

A month later, on November 22nd, 1307, Pope Clement V issued the papal bull Pastoralis praeeminentiae which instructed Christian monarchs across Europe to arrest the Templars and seize all their assets.

The infamous Templar trials ensued, and the Knights were coerced through brutal torture including the rack and burning to confess to a range of crimes. These confessions ranged from idolatry, so**my, witchcraft and heresy. Templars confessed under pain of torture to spitting on the cross, denying the divinity of Jesus, financial corruption, fraud and secrecy. Forms of idolatry they were accused of include worshiping a cat or even kissing a cat beneath its tail, worship of a severed head.

The King would use their forced confessions as means to try find out where the treasure and the fleet went and then executed the Knights. In March 1314, Philip had Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Temple, and Geoffroi de Charney, Preceptor of Normandy, burned at the stake.

10/10/2026

Our thoughts and prayers out to our brethren and all those in the path of the hurricane 🌀 currently in the Gulf of Mexico/America.

10/01/2026

WB Thompson with his favorite beverage. ☕️

It is International Coffee Day. The United Nations made the date official earlier this year.

Every lodge runs on it. The pot goes on before the meeting and it is usually empty by the time we close. Somebody always makes it too strong, somebody else says so, and the same two Brothers stay after to wash the cups.

Brethren: how do you take it, and who in your lodge makes the worst pot? Be honest.

09/28/2026

Happy 66th birthday to WB Bob Thompson PM 2014. 🥳 🎉

09/28/2026

The Annual Grand Lodge of Missouri Communication.

09/18/2026

It’s 239 years ago now. This page admin knows it’s late, but still can say Happy Constitution Day!
-WB Bob Thompson

In Philadelphia on this date 233 years ago, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention met for the last time to sign the document they had created. This date also celebrates those who are born here and those who have become U.S. citizens.

09/12/2026

Masonic 9/11 memorial pin