ORNAN Newsletter

       Oct 2001

 

Introduction
What's new?
What's hot?
Masonic Education!
More Masonic Education!! 
Final words

 

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. 

 

What's new?

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 .

 

What's hot?
Found this URL (again) a couple of weeks ago... thought it may interest some Brothers. 

http://home.earthlink.net/~tonybadillo/

 

Masonic Education!

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.

More Masonic Education!!
TRULY PREPARED

THE CABLE TOW

RED

SEEING

TB

EB

FREEDOM OF FAITH

LESSER LIGHTS

LETTER PERFECT

MASON FLAG

MUMMIES

POWER AND GLORY

 

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.

Until next month...

Fraternally and Sincerely,

Past Master Mathews