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Calala/Tamworth No. 652

Locality: Tamworth, New South Wales

Address: Crawford Street 2340 Tamworth, NSW, Australia

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22.01.2022 *The Third Reich*: Hitler was a minor war hero after being wounded twice during the Great War. His paranoia about Freemasonry first surfaced in his book Mein Kampf (My Struggle) which he began writing in prison in 1924 where he was serving a 5 year sentence for the crime of Sedition as a result of the failed Beer Hall Putsch in Munich in ...Continue reading

21.01.2022 Continued Hence we see the propriety of placing the sprig of acacia, as an emblem of immortality, among the symbols of that degree, all of whose ceremonies are intended to teach us the great truth, that "the life of man, regulated by morality, faith, and justice, will be rewarded at its closing hour by the prospect of eternal bliss." 185 So, therefore, says Dr. Oliver, when the Master Mason exclaims, "My name is Acacia," it is equivalent to saying, "I have been in the grave,-...Continue reading

21.01.2022 *Conclusions*: This brief foray into those times cannot really begin to convey the full horror and fear that must have been felt by our brethren at the time. However, it does go some way to explaining why a /cloak of secrecy/ was adopted by the Craft at a time when these dictators appeared to be unstoppable. At a time when it looked as if their plans ... might succeed and an invasion of Britain appeared imminent, with the attendant spectres of murder, imprisonment and social exclusion waiting in the wings for Freemasonry generally and even people with connections to it. Many have said that surely Freemasonry should have shrugged off this cloak shortly after 1946, however, that is to ignore that the World War was quickly followed by the rise of the Communist USSR and the attendant Cold War with all of the paranoia that it caused. The Communists were no more a friend to Freemasonry than the Nazis and Fascists and so the habit of secrecy continued well into the 1980s until it was becoming clear that the feared East-West hostilities were unlikely to take place and since the /Fall of the Wall in 1989/ followed by the break-up of the USSR many Eastern European Grand Lodges have re-established themselves. Sadly, well established habits can be hard to shake it off, even now nearly 60 years after the War was won and Nazism defeated. This has lead me to two conclusions: The Forget-Me-Not badge should not just symbolize the resistance offered by German Freemasons during the dark times of the 30s and 40s against Nazi oppression but rather the efforts of Freemasons across Europe and Asia during the first half of the 20th Century. The ranks of those regimes oppressing the Craft has also included the Fascists, the Bolsheviks and the Communists. We should present one of these little flowers to every newly made mason, explaining that /Throughout the ages the darkest of evil has not been able to snuff out the light of Freemasonry, this tiny flower symbolises the fact that even extremist forces have no power against our tenets, namely, Brotherly Love, Relief and Truth /

19.01.2022 Prince Hall, the first man of African ancestry to be made a Mason in America during the colonial era, died on this date in 1807. Born in 1748 to Thomas Prince Hall, an English white father, and a free black Barbadian mother, he and 14 other free blacks, having previously been rejected by the all-white St. John's Lodge of Boston, became Freemasons in 1775 in a British military lodge near Boston that was operating under an Irish constitution. He would eventually in 1784 obtain ...a charter from the Grand Lodge of England for a fully-empowered lodge of free black men. The Grand Lodge of England made him a provincial grand master in 1791. His African Lodge became the parent of what is today known as Prince Hall Freemasonry. During the Revolution, Hall obtained George Washington's approval to have free black men serve in the Continental Army, and soon recruited some 5,000 black soldiers. After the war, he devoted himself to the causes of education for black children and abolition, and was an early leader in the Back to Africa movement. See more

16.01.2022 Some history for you and famous people - Smoky Dawson and the Masons. The picture is drawn in a Masonic Bible...our link to fame.

16.01.2022 Don't forget to attend our meeting this Thursday for the always wonderful company of our members and visitors at Lodge Calala Tamworth.

16.01.2022 continued A reference to some of these sacred plants--for such was the character they assumed--and an investigation of their symbolism will not, perhaps, be uninteresting or useless, in connection with the subject of the present article. In the Mysteries of Adonis, which originated in Phoenicia, and were afterwards transferred to Greece, the death and resurrection of Adonis was represented. A part of the legend accompanying these mysteries was, that when Adonis was slain by a...Continue reading

14.01.2022 Even the countries that remained outwardly independent or even allied with the Axis powers had to prove their support by taking equally harsh measures against Freemasonry within their borders. *Romania*was initially neutral, however, its internal policies aligned ...Continue reading

11.01.2022 Happy Birthday to the United Grand Lodge of NSW and ACT. Today marks the 130th anniversary of the election of Lord Carrington as our first Grand Master. A long and proud history

10.01.2022 Don’t be the brother who doesn’t come to Lodge because they ain’t teachin nothin. Be the brother that reads a book, writes a paper and comes with light to share Don’t be the brother that sits on the sides lines shaking his head and complaining that those who are performing ritual are doing a shoddy job. Be the brother that takes a hard part and encourages others to rehearse or helps the guy struggling Don’t be the guy who bad mouths the lodge because the seats are empty.... Be the guy that takes an interest in improving attendance and picks up the guys with no ride In other words don’t be an observer Mason BE A BUILDER Author Unknown See more

09.01.2022 *USSR*: In 1917, as one of their first acts, the Bolsheviks dissolved all Masonic Lodges in Russia. Any attempts to re-establish Russian Freemasonry met with the mandate of the 4th Congress of the Communist International in Moscow which required all Communist Freemasons to sever their lodge membership. They could not be considered for important posts ...Continue reading

09.01.2022 Continued The acacia, on the contrary, was esteemed a sacred tree. It is the acacia vera of Tournefort, and the mimosa nilotica of Linnæus. It grew abundantly in the vicinity of Jerusalem, 181 where it is still to be found, and is familiar to us all, in its modern uses at least, as the tree from which the gum arabic of commerce is obtained. The acacia, which, in Scripture, is always called shittah 182 and in the plural shittim, was esteemed a sacred wood among the Hebrews. Of...Continue reading

08.01.2022 Austria*succumbed (March 1938) to the power of the Third Reich, this persecution continued, the Masters of the various Vienna lodges were immediately arrested and deported to some of the most notorious concentration camps, including Dachau in Bavaria....Continue reading

07.01.2022 The secrets revealed (at least, if you like humour)

07.01.2022 The Masonic Fraternity lost 2 beloved brothers & US Presidents on this date (12/26). MWB Harry Truman in 1972 and Gerald Ford in 2006.

05.01.2022 *_Why is Freemasonry so Secret in Britain_*_?_ By Mike Martin, July 2001. /So why do you belong to that secret society?/is a question I get ...Continue reading

04.01.2022 The Sprig of Acacia. Intimately connected with the legend of the third degree is the mythical history of the Sprig of Acacia, which we are now to consider. There is no symbol more interesting to the masonic student than the Sprig of Acacia, not only on account of its own peculiar import, but also because it introduces us to an extensive and delightful field of research; that, namely, which embraces the symbolism of sacred plants. In all the ancient systems of religion, and My...Continue reading

01.01.2022 Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a safe New Year. See you all in 208.