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2007 Honors
Around the first of August
I will send a personal letter to every 33rd in the Orient, inviting them to
the next conferral of that degree on October 6.
All of the 33rd and
KCCH elects have already received a letter from me giving them the date and
place for their particular investiture.
However information
about the investiture of the KCCH to our general population will rely on
your good offices. so,
please publish in your
various organs - email network, web page, Valley news letter and
announcements at meetings - that the KCCH investiture is an open ceremony -
family and friends are not only welcome, but certainly encouraged to attend
and support the new honor men.
10 am, Saturday,
September 22 in Walla Walla
1 pm, Sunday, September
23 in Tacoma.
Thanks
Bill Miller
Free Masonry
By
Chuck Anway
Freemasonry is one of the world's
oldest secular fraternal societies. The essential qualification for
admission is a belief in a Supreme Being and to be of good repute.
Freemasonry
is open to men of many religions and it expects them to continue to follow
their own faith. Freemasonry is a system of morality, not a system of faith
or salvation and is complimentary to the belief of the individual. Indeed,
lodge meetings, in order to ensure harmony, expressly forbid the discussion
of either religion or politics.
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Freemasonry
asks that each of its members shows tolerance and respect for the opinions
of others and behave with kindness and understanding to his fellow man. Its
members, in varying degrees, are involved with numerous local, national and
international charitable works, both by charitable giving and by voluntary
efforts and works as individuals.
Freemasonry
demands from its members a respect for the law of the country in which a
man works and lives. Freemasonry does not override the individuals duty to
one’s self, one’s family ones God or work.
Masonic
meetings have a set structure and consistent content and although their
organization and ceremonies have been shrouded in secrecy in the past, are
now largely open to public scrutiny one way or another – United Grand Lodge
of England even hires PR consultants these days to help get their message
across fairly. Whilst Masonic lodges are private, their member are happy to
talk about any virtually any aspect of Freemasonry, except their modes of
recognition.
A Freemason is encouraged to do his duty first to God
(by whatever name he is known) and then, without detriment to his work or
family, to his neighbor (in the broadest sense) through charity and
service. None of these ideas are  the opportunity for a
convivial din exclusively Masonic, but the setting in which they are
practiced, the spirit of friendship which is prevalent among its members
and ner after such meetings surely is.
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