Recent content by tomgndallas

Brother Stewart, May stop in and visit you guys one of these days too..Sam P tomorrow. What day would be better, during a floor night or a degree night? I can follow up with an email to your secretary so he can check out my credentials.

I have a similar question, Brother Stewart, thanks for the Grand Prairie info, I work down there and pass by your lodge often during lunch. I am planning on visiting Sam P Cochran on Monday evening. I moved here from California a couple years ago and I am just getting around to visiting a lodge...

Good Evening Brothers, I wanted to post a quick update here. First, if anyone is interested in my list of books and authors, please PM me or send me your email and I can forward it. I have had alot of positive response to the auction and just added another 15 books. Of course, I did already...

Oh yes a big congrats. I was so full of questions after raising and wanted to know more about the history of the ritual and meaning of course. Began digging into books, have about 50 on the shelf and 460 in pdf on DVD. I am finishing up Solomon's Builders now, finished Pilgrims Path and Born in...

Hola and Bienvenidos Brother. I lived in San Diego 10 years before moving to Dallas TX. I have spent quite a bit of time south of the border, Tijuana, Ensenada, Rosarito (wow that placed changed), and Cabo. Take care and stay off Cohuilla...lol.. Tom G

practiced with my candidate coach twice a week for a couple weeks, studied everyday as I was eager to learn the ritual perfectly and be advanced through the degrees.

From my experience, more philanthropic activities in the blue lodges, the SR and Shrine have it covered pretty well already. Continued awareness of the fraternity, the good things it does, moral building and all that good stuff (the whole perfect ashlar bit). In addition, I cannot stress masonic...

I joined in my quest to further educate myself in masonic history and tradition. To improve myself and to serve alongside my brother.

Re: What the Freemasonic Shriners really believe o Honestly this stuff cracks me up...the fact that these kind of folks spend so much time and energy to create such a non convincing arguments is a riot. Critical thinking at its best.

I remember that part, if I do remember correctly is this were he goes back to the original french meanings of words and then speaks to the use of ela, elo, elum as a way to capture the feminie, masculine and neutral. At least I think that was in Robinson's, I have been reading alot lately and I...

I seriously almost fell out of my chair on that one!!! Wahahaha!

This is a good read, Pilgrims Path is pretty good too, though I did enjoy BIB more. I just began reading Chris Hodapp's Solomon's Builders. So far so good. Finished the Lost Symbol (awesome) and Lomas's Turning the Solomon Key (yuck!!!) Happy reading brother... Tom G

Brothers, Newly Initiated and those interested in the Craft, I have finally compiled and categorized the last 4 years of my research into Masonic literature. The result is 460 electronic books, 4.3 GB of information. The books are outside of copyright, almost all of them are from the...

Brothers, It is great to be on this forum, I just found it today. I have been living in Dallas for two years and I know I want to make this my home as long as I possibly can. I came here from San Diego, I was born in Austin and grew up in Alabama. Joined the Navy, saw the world, the rest is...