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September 2020
Virtual Lecture: Freemasonry – The Craft of Self-Actualization, a western path to enlightenment
The Livingston Masonic Library is proud to present W∴ Michael LaRocco for a virtual lecture on the evening of September 15, 2020. Freemasonry is an enigmatic fraternity whose origins are lost in antiquity. Its purpose, however, is something each generation…
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Virtual Lecture: William Wines Phelps: New York Mason, anti-Mason and Mormon
Join us virtually on Thursday, October 29th for a lecture presented by Author Michael W. Homer, exploring the life of William Wine Phelps a Mason who would later condemn Freemasonry and become one of the predominant voices in the 19th…
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Virtual Lecture: “The Crane-Balestier Letters: Holland Lodge in the Age of Schisms”
Before the Civil War, Freemasonry in New York suffered from forty years of conflict during which various rival groups claimed jurisdiction over the Craft. During this Age of Schisms, Holland Lodge No. 8 took the unusual course of declaring independence…
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Virtual Lecture: Salon de La Rose (Lecture, Art, and Music event)
(Original Artwork by, Milosz Jeziorski) OPENING ACT: In Search of The Golden Fleece: The Warrior Philosopher¹s Path To Immortality. Lecture by Tony Crisos A short lecture on the history and philosophical value of the Golden Fleece through existing literature and…
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Virtual Lecture: Pre-Columbian Builders: Development of Architecture and Agriculture in the new world
In this month's lecture, RW Ivan Boluarte will explore the development of Pre-columbian architecture and agriculture in the new world prior to the arrival of Europeans using Joseph Fort Newton's The Builders as a guide. Speaker Bio: RW Ivan Boluarte…
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Virtual Lecture: Karen Quinones, “Theodosia Burr: Teen Eyewitness to the Founding of the New Nation”
About the lecture: Most Americans are familiar with the political life of Aaron Burr. He was an officer in the Continental Army, New York State Attorney General, member of the New York Assembly, Senator, and Vice President, all by the…
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August 2021
Virtual Lecture: Marshall Kern, “The Master’s Emblem”
In many jurisdictions around the world, there is an emblem affixed to the apron of the Worshipful Master of a Lodge to distinguish him. The emblem continues to be used on his apron as a Past Master, or if he…
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Alexander Gillies, Adam Smith, and Eighteenth-Century Scottish Freemasonry
Lecture Synopsis: Professor Eugene Heath’s presentation returns us to the eighteenth century. Heath will focus on a student of Adam Smith's at the University of Glasgow, Alexander Gillies, who became a freemason and a Presbyterian minister (at the Church of…
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