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| ORNAN Newsletter | |
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Oct 2001 |
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Introduction
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| Introduction | |
| Hello, Brethren! This month
we would like to thank all the Brothers who purchased a CD on our site at
MasonicCD.com . We were very pleased with the response
from our "special" e-mail sent out earlier this month.
We still have the pre-ship sale going on until the 31st of this month, if you want to take advantage of very low prices of the software.
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| WE NEED YOUR HELP FOR
POTENTIAL BROTHERS!!! We are planning a new section to the website for people visiting the site who want to join Freemasonry. Our most asked question at this site is: "How do I join Masonry" or "What is Masonry." The vision for this new site will include information from Brothers on why they joined Masonry, why masonry is important to them, what it takes to be a Mason, etc. We will also take any ideas you may have for the new section of our site. We normally receive limited response when we post a message of this sort, but we hope the Brothers of this list will realize the importance of such an undertaking and contribute... even if you only have one sentence to submit... submit something! You can submit through our contacts page or by e-mailing: JTMAT@4MASONRY.COM .
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| What's hot? | |
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Found this URL (again) a couple of weeks
ago... thought it may interest some Brothers.
http://home.earthlink.net/~tonybadillo/
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| Masonic Education! | |
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THE NUMBER FIVE Five has always been a sacred and mystical number; Pythagoras made of it a symbol of life, since it rejected unity by the addition of the first even and the first odd number. It was therefore symbolic of happiness and misery, birth and death, order and disorder—in other words, life as it was lived. Egypt knew five minor planets, five elements, five elementary powers. The Greeks had four elements and added ether, the unknown, making a cosmos of five. Five is peculiarly the number of the Fellowcraft's Degree; it represents the central group of the three which form the stairs; it refers to the five orders of architecture; five are required to hold a Fellowcraft's Lodge; there are five human senses; geometry is the fifth science, and so on. In the Winding Stairs the number five represents first the five orders of architecture. |
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| More Masonic Education!! | |
| TRULY PREPARED | FREEDOM
OF FAITH
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| Final words | |
| I know the updates to the website have not went as planned, BUT our dream for the craft has launched (masonicCD.com) and we hope the Brothers will find the software educational, useful, and a worth-while investment. | |
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Until next month... Fraternally and Sincerely, Past Master Mathews
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