The Communicator / Seattle Scottish Rite

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Communicator The Official Publication of the Valley of Seattle Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry

volume 60, No. 05 206-324-3330

Sept / Oct 2013

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The Ineffable Name

Qabalah 101

Rose Croix Retreat

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Scottish Rite Communicator Valley of Seattle

www.seattle-scottishrite.org

SCOTTISH RITE OFFICERS Ronald A. Seale, 33°

Honours for 2013 Announced

Alvin W. Jorgensen, 33° Deputy of the S:.C:., Orient of Washington

33° Inspector General Honorary - Elect

Sat Tashiro, 33° Personal Rep. of the Deputy stashiro@comcast.net

Gregory J. Goodrich

Greg Goodrich, 32° K:.C:.C:.H:.

General Secretary & Communicator Editor secretary@seattle-scottishrite.org

George A. Lofthus

Norman Miller, 33° Treasurer

Knight Commander Court of Honour - Elect

Sovereign Grand Commander

George Lofthus, 32° K:.C:.C:.H:.

Almoner PRESIDING OFFICERS Harold Federow, 32° Venerable Master, Lodge of Perfection Bryan Bechler, 32° Wise Master, Chapter of Rose Croix Grover Partee, 32° K:.C:.C:.H:.

Commander, of Kadosh Steve Dazey, 32° Master, Seattle Consistory

William C. Harker, Sr. Gene F. Ulrich

The Supreme Council, 33°, S.J. USA 2013 Biennial Session

Jeff Harden, 32° K:.C:.C:.H:.

Chief, Knights of St. Andrew Scottish Rite Masonic Center 1207 N 152nd St Seattle, WA 98133-6213 206 324-3330 voice 206 324-3332 fax Brian Lorton Building Manager brian@seattle-scottishrite.org Lorna Schack Administrative Assistant lorna@seattle-scottishrite.org The Communicator (USPS 485-660) is published by the Seattle Valley of Scottish Rite, 1207 N 152nd St., Seattle, WA 98133-6213, for the benefit of its members, bi-monthly and is mailed as a non-profit publication to all members of the Seattle Valley and to specified other interested parties. $2.00 per member is assessed for the publication of The Communicator. Periodicals postage paid at Seattle, Washington and at additional mailing offices.

The material contained within this publication is intended for the education and enjoyment of the members of the Masonic Fraternity and all material published becomes the property of Seattle Valley of Scottish Rite. Permission to reproduce material from this publication for Masonic publications is hereby granted.

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Watch the highlights from the 2013 session in Washington, D.C. http://www.scottishrite.org

News from the Personal Representative

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he days have slipped by and since the summer solstice in late June, our days are progressively getting shorter and the nights longer, which means that summer is coming to an end and fall is rapidly approaching. On a positive note this means that the activities in our Valley will start picking up once more.

The cast members for the 27th and 30th degree have been rehearsing these recent weeks in preparation for these degrees in September. In addition I want to congratulate four active members of the Seattle Valley who were recognized for their support of the Valley by being nominated and elected to KCCH and to the 33rd degree, by the House of the Temple. Congratulations to Brother Greg Goodrich and Brother George Lofthus to their elevation to the 33째, Inspector General Honorary; and to Brothers William Harker and Brother Gene Ulrich to their elevation to Knight Commander Court of Honour. The 30th degree is scheduled for September 7th, and the 27th degree scheduled for October 5th.

All members of the Valley are urged to attend both degrees, and fill the sidelines as we confer these degrees upon our 2013 class. We need members who wish to participate in the degrees in any capacity, from major to minor roles, who wish to return in a small way, to the teachings of the Scottish Rite. Please contact the office and talk to the General Secretary. I would also like to thank Brother John Hannaman, 32째 KCCH for his many years of service to the Valley in the Props Department. John is moving south and has retired as Props Manager. If you are interested in helping out in this area, please let us know.

As the months pass by, we are also in need of members to assist the valley in supporting the degrees in support roles by working behind the scenes. Typical are in the properties and in the audio-visual area. Again please contact the office for details.

The stated meeting in September will be our yearly Scholarship Night, where we will announce the scholarship winners for the year. It will be open to the public, and our principal speaker will be Illustrious Al Jorgensen, Deputy of the Supreme Council for the Orient of Washington. A short business meeting will follow. In addition we will recognize valley members who will be receiving the Double Eagle medals for their involvement in Scottish Rite, Seattle Valley, activities, in a special meeting to follow. This second meeting will be by invitation.

The annual Feast of Tishri celebration will be held at the October xx meeting, and also open to the public. A short business meeting will also follow.

Many thanks to those members who have labored with us these summer months on the committees of our Valley, and participated in the outdoor degree at Granite Falls Masonic Park, where the Scottish Rite members from valleys in the area conferred and performed the drama for two brothers from Damascus and Arlington. Edmonds Lodge was the host lodge for the Master Mason degree, and several of their members from Everett Valley participated.

I look forward to seeing many of you in the activities of our Valley in the coming weeks and months.

Fraternally, Ill. Sat Tashiro, 33째 Personal Representative of the Deputy

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rethren, as we get back down to business after our summer break, we have a lot of activities coming in the next few months. Please be sure to check the online calendar as well as the calendar on the back of this issue for dates and times. Over the summer quite a few projects were completed in and around the Temple. New banners for each of the bodies are in the process of being made and at the time of publication, we already have one hanging in the lodge room. The others will follow shortly.

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n November we will have a membership recruitment night (think wine, cigars & fellowship).

This will be geared to non-Scottish Rite Masons. RSVP’s will be required and we are looking for Masons who might be interested in learning more about the history and traditions of the Scottish Rite. More information will be forthcoming, in the meantime, start thinking of potential candidates that would be interested in attending.

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astly, I would like to thank Bro. John Hannaman for his many years of dedication in the properties department for the Valley. He is moving out of the area and has decided to retire from this position. I have enjoyed working with John over the years and hope to see him as often as possible at our meetings.

Fraternally, Greg Goodrich, 32° K:.C:.C:.H:.

General Secretary

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Hold the Date Dr. Bonnie Dunbar, Astronaut

Sunday, October 13, 2013 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Hold the date for the annual Beyond Words brunch in support of RiteCare of Washington’s clinic in Shoreline. This year our event will be a Sunday brunch at 11:00 AM on October 13, 2013 catered by Cameron Catering.

You won’t want to miss our featured speaker, Bonnie Dunbar. Dr. Dunbar is a five time space shuttle astronaut who has logged more than fifty days in space. A member of the NASA Hall of Fame, Dunbar’s career as an astronaut included the first docking mission between the Russian space station MIR and the space shuttle in 1995, as payload commander on two flights, participation in a thirteen day Spacelab flight as well as the eighth docking mission to MIR. Following her flight career Dunbar held various senior management roles at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C. and NASA Johnson Space Center.

From 2005 to 2010 Dunbar was president and CEO of the Museum of Flight in Seattle, the largest private air and space museum in the nation. More recently Dunbar owned her own consulting company with clients both nationally and internationally. Currently, Dunbar is leading a new STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) Center and serves on the faculty of the College of Engineering at the University of Houston.

Dr. Dunbar holds a Ph.D. in mechanical/biomedical engineering from the University of Houston, master and bachelor degrees from the University of Washington and seven honorary academic degrees. Dunbar is an accomplished public speaker who is in demand internationally.

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The Ineffable Name

by Albert G. Mackey 1882

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nother important symbol is the Ineffable Name, with which the series of ritualistic symbols will be concluded.

he Tetragrammaton, or Ineffable Word,--the Incommunicable Name,--is a symbol--for rightly-considered it is nothing more than a symbol--that has more than any other (except, perhaps, the symbols connected with sun-worship), pervaded the rites of antiquity. I know, indeed, of no system of ancient initiation in which it has not some prominent form and place.

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ut as it was, perhaps, the earliest symbol which was corrupted by the spurious Freemasonry of the pagans, in their secession from the primitive system of the patriarchs and ancient priesthood, it will be most expedient for the thorough discussion of the subject which is proposed in the present paper, that we should begin the investigation with an inquiry into the nature of the symbol among the Israelites.

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hat name of God, which we, at a venture, pronounce Jehovah,--although whether this is, or is not, the true pronunciation can now never be authoritatively settled,--was ever held by the Jews in the most profound veneration. They derived its origin from the immediate inspiration of the Almighty, who communicated it to Moses as his especial appellation, to be used only by his chosen people; and this communication was made at the Burning Bush, when he said to him, “Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel: Jehovah, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this [Jehovah] is my name forever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.” And at a subsequent period he still more emphatically declared this to be his peculiar name: “I am Jehovah; and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of El Shaddai; but by my name Jehovah was I not known unto them.”

It will be perceived that I have not here followed precisely the somewhat unsatisfactory version of King James’s Bible, which, by translating or anglicizing one name, and not the other, leaves the whole passage less intelligible and impressive than it should be. I have retained the original Hebrew for both names. El Shaddai, “the Almighty One,” was the name by which he had been heretofore known to the preceding patriarchs; in its meaning it was analogous to Elohim, who is described in the first chapter of Genesis as creating the world. But his name of Jehovah was now for the first time to be communicated to his people.

Ushered to their notice with all the solemnity and religious consecration of these scenes and events, this name of God became invested among the Israelites with the profoundest veneration and awe. To add to this mysticism, the Cabalists, by the change of a single letter, read the passage, “This is my name forever,” or, as it is in the original, Zeh shemi l’olam, ‫ םלעל ימש הז‬as if written Zeh shemi l’alam, ‫ םלאל ימש הז‬that is to say, “This is my name to be concealed.”

This interpretation, although founded on a blunder, and in all probability an intentional one, soon became a precept, and has been strictly obeyed to this day. The word Jehovah is never pronounced by a pious Jew, who, whenever he meets with it in Scripture, substitutes for it the word Adonai or Lord--a practice which has been followed by the translators of the common English version of the Bible with almost Jewish scrupulosity, the word

Page 7 “Jehovah” in the original being invariably translated by the word “Lord.” The pronunciation of the word, being thus abandoned, became ultimately lost, as, by the peculiar construction of the Hebrew language, which is entirely without vowels, the letters, being all consonants, can give no possible indication, to one who has not heard it before, of the true pronunciation of any given word.

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o make this subject plainer to the reader who is unacquainted with the Hebrew, I will venture to furnish an explanation which will, perhaps, be intelligible.

The Hebrew alphabet consists entirely of consonants, the vowel sounds having always been inserted orally, and never marked in writing until the “vowel points,” as they are called, were invented by the Masorites, some six centuries after the Christian era. As the vowel sounds were originally supplied by the reader, while reading, from a knowledge which he had previously received, by means of oral instruction, of the proper pronunciation of the word, he was necessarily unable to pronounce any word which had never before been uttered in his presence.

As we know that Dr. is to be pronounced Doctor, and Mr. Mister, because we have always heard those peculiar combinations of letters thus enunciated, and not because the letters themselves give any such sound; so the Jew knew from instruction and constant practice, and not from the power of the letters, how the consonants in the different words in daily use were to be vocalized. But as the four letters which compose the word Jehovah, as we now call it, were never pronounced in his presence, but were made to represent another word, Adonai, which was substituted for it, and as the combination of these four consonants would give no more indication for any sort of enunciation than the combinations Dr. or Mr. give in our language, the Jew, being ignorant of what vocal sounds were to be supplied, was unable to pronounce the word, so that its true pronunciation was in time lost to the masses of the people.

“This is my name, to be concealed.”

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here was one person, however, who, it is said, was in possession of the proper sound of the letters and the true pronunciation of the word. This was the high priest, who, receiving it from his predecessor, preserved the recollection of the sound by pronouncing it three times, once a year, on the day of the atonement, when he entered the holy of holies of the tabernacle or the temple.

If the traditions of Masonry on this subject are correct, the kings, after the establishment of the monarchy, must have participated in this privilege; for Solomon is said to have been in possession of the word, and to have communicated it to his two colleagues at the building of the temple.

This is the word which, from the number of its letters, was called the “tetragrammaton,” or four-lettered name, and, from its sacred inviolability, the “ineffable” or unutterable name.

The Cabalists and Talmudists have enveloped it in a host of mystical superstitions, most of which are as absurd as they are incredible, but all of them tending to show the great veneration that has always been paid to it. 127 Thus they say that it is possessed of unlimited powers, and that he who pronounces it shakes heaven and earth, and inspires the very angels with terror and astonishment.

The Rabbins called it “shem hamphorash,” that is to say, “the name that is declaratory,” and they say that David found it engraved on a stone while digging into the earth.

From the sacredness with which the name was venerated, it was seldom, if ever, written in full, and, consequently, a great many symbols, or hieroglyphics, were invented to express it. One of these was the letter ‫ י‬or Yod, equivalent nearly to the English I, or J, or Y, which was the initial of the word, and it was often inscribed within an equilateral triangle, thus:

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he triangle itself being a symbol of Deity. This symbol of the name of God is peculiarly worthy of our attention, since not only is the triangle to be found in many of the ancient religions occupying the same position, but the whole symbol itself is undoubtedly the origin of that hieroglyphic exhibited in the second degree of Masonry, where, the explanation of the symbolism being the same, the form of it, as far as it respects the letter, has only been anglicized by modern innovators. In my own opinion, the letter G, which is used in the Fellow Craft’s degree, should never have been permitted to intrude into Masonry; it presents an instance of absurd anachronism, which would never have occurred if the original Hebrew symbol had been retained. But being there now, without the possibility of removal, we have only to remember that it is in fact but the symbol of a symbol.

Widely spread, as I have already said, was this reverence for the name of God; and, consequently, its symbolism, in some peculiar form, is to be found in all the ancient rites.

Thus the Ineffable Name itself, of which we have been discoursing, is said to have been preserved in its true pronunciation by the Essenes, who, in their secret rites, communicated it to each other only in a whisper, and in such form, that while its component parts were known, they were so separated as to make the whole word a mystery.

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mong the Egyptians, whose connection with the Hebrews was more immediate than that of any other people, and where, consequently, there was a greater similarity of rites, the same sacred name is said to have been used as a password, for the purpose of gaining admission to their Mysteries.

In the Brahminic Mysteries of Hindostan the ceremony of initiation was terminated by intrusting the aspirant with the sacred, triliteral name, which was AUM, the three letters of which were symbolic of the creative, preservative, and destructive principles of the Supreme Deity, personified in the three manifestations of Bramah, Siva, and Vishnu. This word was forbidden to be pronounced aloud. It was to be the subject of silent meditation to the pious Hindoo.

In the rites of Persia an ineffable name was also communicated to the candidate after his initiation. Mithras, the principal divinity in these rites, who took the place of the Hebrew Jehovah, and represented the sun, had this peculiarity in his name--that the numeral value of the letters of which it was composed amounted to precisely, the number of days which constitute a revolution of the earth around the sun, or, as they then supposed, of the sun around the earth.

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n the Mysteries introduced by Pythagoras into Greece we again find the ineffable name of the Hebrews, obtained doubtless by the Samian Sage during his visit to Babylon. The symbol adopted by him to express it was, however, somewhat different, being ten points distributed in the form of a triangle, each side containing four points, as in the annexed figure.

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he apex of the triangle was consequently a single point then followed below two others, then three; and lastly, the base consisted of four. These points were, by the number in each rank, intended, according to the Pythagorean system, to denote respectively the monad, or active principle of nature; the duad, or passive principle; the triad, or world emanating from their union; and the quaterniad, or intellectual science; the whole number of points amounting to ten, the symbol of perfection and consummation. This figure was called by Pythagoras the tetractys--a word equivalent in signification to the tetragrammaton; and it was deemed so sacred that on it the oath of secrecy and fidelity was administered to the aspirants in the Pythagorean rites.

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mong the Scandinavians, as among the Jewish Cabalists, the Supreme God who was made known in their mysteries had twelve names, of which the principal and most sacred one was Alfader, the Universal Father.

mong the Druids, the sacred name of God was Hu--a name which, although it is supposed, by Bryant, to have been intended by them for Noah, will be recognized as one of the modifications of the Hebrew tetragrammaton. It is, in fact, the masculine pronoun in Hebrew, and may be considered as the symbolization of the male or generative principle in nature--a sort of modification of the system of Phallic worship.

This sacred name among the Druids reminds me of what is the latest, and undoubtedly the most philosophical, speculation on the true meaning, as well as pronunciation, of the ineffable tetragrammaton. It is from the ingenious mind of the celebrated Lanci; and I have already, in another work, given it to the public as I received it from his pupil, and my friend, Mr. Gliddon, the distinguished archaeologist. But the results are too curious to be omitted whenever the tetragrammaton is discussed.

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lsewhere I have very fully alluded to the prevailing sentiment among the ancients, that the Supreme Deity was bisexual, or hermaphrodite, including in the essence of his being the male and female principles, the generative and prolific powers of nature. This was the universal doctrine in all the ancient religions, and was very naturally developed in the symbol of the phallus and cteis among the Greeks, and in the corresponding one of the lingam and yoni among the Orientalists; from which symbols the masonic point within a circle is a legitimate derivation. They all taught that God, the Creator, was both male and female.

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ow, this theory is undoubtedly unobjectionable on the score of orthodoxy, if we view it in the spiritual sense, in which its first propounders must necessarily have intended it to be presented to the mind, and not in the gross, sensual meaning in which it was subsequently received. For, taking the word sex, not in its ordinary and colloquial signification, as denoting the indication of a particular physical organization, but in that purely philosophical one which alone can be used in such a connection, and which simply signifies the mere manifestation of a power, it is not to be denied that the Supreme Being must possess in himself, and in himself alone, both a generative and a prolific power. This idea, which was so extensively prevalent among all the nations of antiquity, has also been traced in the tetragrammaton, or name of Jehovah, with singular ingenuity, by Lanci; and, what is almost equally as interesting, he has, by this discovery, been enabled to demonstrate what was, in all probability, the true pronunciation of the word.

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Qabalah 101

KETHER, THE FIRST SEPHIRAH

abbalah is an exploration of the relationship between human beings and God. It is an attempt to understand the divine context of existence. It draws on many ancient mystical traditions. The Kabbalah does not stop with its symbols and often startling metaphors. It attempts, using language and symbol, to go beyond language and symbol. It repeatedly transcends itself. It provides us with a new vocabulary of symbols, and then we discover how slippery and fluid and limited they are. Each new conception of God, broader and deeper than the one before, presents a cognitive challenge that is resolved, not only by retreat and mystical contemplation, but by living in the world. There are no Kabbalist monasteries. Most of the best-known Kabbalists had families and businesses. In Kabbalah, the material world, where we have our families and businesses, is not an antithesis of spirituality - it is a manifestation of the divine. If there is a single idea that pervades Kabbalah, it is an unnegotiable insistence on the fundamental unity of all being.

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ether, the Crown, is placed at the head of the Middle Pillar of Equilibrium, and from it depend backwards the Negative Veils of Existence. Kether, the First Manifest, represents the primal crystallisation into manifestation of that which was hitherto unmanifest and therefore unknowable by us. Concerning the root from which Kether springs we can know nothing; but concerning Kether itself we can know something. It may be for us at our stage of development the Great Unknown, but it is not the Great Unknowable. The mind of the magus must compass it in his higher visions. With the operation known as Rising on the Planes, which consists in carrying consciousness up the Middle Pillar by means of concentration on the successive symbols and the Paths, Kether, on the one occasion when I touched its fringe, appeared as a blinding white light, in which all thought went completely blank.

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n Kether there is no form but only pure being, whatever that may be. It is, one might say, a latency only one degree removed from non-existence. Such concepts must necessarily be vague, and I am ill-equipped to give them such definiteness as they might possess, but I am quite satisfied that we should recognise grades of becoming, and that the crude differentiation of Being and Non-being does not represent the facts. With manifested existence there come into being the pairs of opposites; but in Kether there is no division into the pairs of opposites, which must wait for their manifestation till Chokmah and Binab are emanated.

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ether, then, is the One, and existed before there was any reflection of itself to serve it for an image in consciousness and set up polarity. We must believe that it transcended all known laws of manifestation by existing alone, without reaction. But when we speak of Kether it must be remembered that we do not mean a person, but a state of existence, and this state of existing substance must have been utterly inert, pure being without activity, until the activity began which emanated Chokmah.

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he human mind, knowing no other mode of existence than that of form and activity, has the greatest difficulty in obtaining any adequate concept of an entirely formless state of passivity which is nevertheless most distinctly not non-being. Yet this effort must be made if we are to understand cosmic philosophy in its fundamentals.

We must not draw the Veils of Negative Existence in front of Kether or we shall condemn ourselves to a perpetual unresolved duality; God and the Devil will for ever war in our cosmos, and there can be no finality to their conflict.

We must train the mind to conceive the state of pure being without attributes or activities; we may think of it as the blinding white light, undifferentiated into rays by the prism of form; or we may think of it as the darkness of interstellar space, which is nothing, yet contains the potentialities of all things. These symbols, dwelt upon by the inner eye, are a greater aid to the understanding of Kether than any amount of exact philosophical definitions. We cannot define Kether; we can only indicate it.

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The Ritual is not the Main Thing

by Rabbi E. Geffen, 32°, F.P.S. Masonic Light - 5949

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here are many Masons who know nothing about the morality of Masonry, or what their duties are, for the reason that they are only interested in the ritual. The ritual is only a small part of Masonry; steps should be taken to call the attention of the Craftsman to the morality of the Craft, and to what their duties as good and true Masons are, and the nature and extent of their obligations. The ritual is undoubtedly not to be neglected, inasmuch as it is the medium through which we acquire our lessons of symbolism, by translating the mystical in real conduct of life. The ritual is also important, because by its means we separate ourselves from the rest of the world, and obtain the means of mutual recognition. But it is, after all, the weakest part of Masonry. The ritual alone will no more make a true Mason than the manual exercise will make a true soldier.

The moral and intellectual teachings of the Order - its intention as a great religious institution, occupied in the search after Divine Truth, should always engage the attention of the Masonic student, and form a prominent part of his studies. We unfortunately, know too many Masons who are completely ignorant of the history, the nature, the design and the true symbolism of the Order, as if they had never entered within its portals, regardless that they are familiar with the exact phraseology of the ritual.

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asonry has its science and its literature, and to these the attention of the Masonic student should be directed. The ritual is its alphabet. A know of it is, therefore, it is true, necessary to a, full comprehension of its language; but he who has gone no further than the alphabet, however competent he may be to instruct others in the same rudiments, can hardly discharge the duty of a teacher of the science.

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uch ritualists, who do not know the history and morality of our Order, are like some ignorant servitor in a public library, who can readily point out the shelf or spot occupied by every book, and even give from memory a correct rendition of its title-page, and yet who knows no more concerning the intellectual treasures contained within its locked leaves than the binder who put them together.

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t is time that Masons should come to the conclusion and realize that something more than a mere knowledge of the words of a ritual are necessary to make a “bright� Mason or a competent teacher in Masonry.

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Rose Croix Retreat

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rom Friday, November 1st to Sunday, November 3rd the Seattle Valley Rose Croix will be hosting the 7th annual Scottish Rite Men’s Retreat at beautiful St. Andrew’s Lodge on Hood Canal overlooking the majestic Olympic Mountains. For only $200 you will be served 6 delicious meals, including a salmon dinner on Friday night and prime rib on Saturday night in addition to the two nights lodging!

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his yearly event will afford you a rare opportunity to listen, and to communicate your thoughts and ideas with your brothers, and to explore and deepen your understanding of esoteric Masonry. The keynote speaker will be IB Mark Conlee who will be giving a presentation on the historical context in which speculative Masonry developed in England and Scotland during the 17th Century. If any other brother who is planning on attending wishes to present a Masonic topic, please contact Wise Master Bryan Bechler, Chapter of Rose Croix at bry.kat@frontier.com.

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owhere else during my 46 years as a Mason have I had the opportunity to completely express my views in strict confidence to my brethren, as I have experienced during these retreats. IB Mark Conlee wrapped up last year’s retreat experience best when he wrote: “The Rose Croix Retreat is not about Seattle Valley, it is about brothers getting together to learn, to share fellowship and to discuss topics of common interest be they esoteric or every day.”

Please call Lorna at the Scottish Rite Office (206) 324-3330 for reservations. For more information about St. Andrews, please visit the website: http://www.saintandrewshouse.org.

George Lofthus, 32° K:.C:.C:.H:., Almoner

2012 Retreat Participants

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Scottish Rite Scholarship Foundation T

he Scottish Rite Scholarship Foundation of Washington will once again take scholarship applications beginning November 1, 2013. The deadline for applications is March 31, 2014. Each Valley has a Director to help students submit an application which includes a personal interview. For students attending school outside the greater Seattle area, the Director from the Valley closest to their school can assist with a courtesy interview.

Presently, the amount of an undergraduate scholarship is $2,500 per year with renewals of the same amount, but amounts are subject to change.

Applicants must be attending fulltime an accredited 4-year college or university within the State of Washington, have a GPA of 3.0 or better, and be a US citizen residing in the State of Washington. Students can first apply in their sophomore year. The scholarships are awarded for their Junior or Senior year (fifth year considered if required to complete undergraduate degree).

You can find out more about the Foundation and the program by going to our website at www.srsfwa.org or visit our Facebook page www.facebook.com/TheScottishRiteFoundationOfWashington.

Robert T. Wilson, 33째 Dantes LaHens, 32째

Director - Seattle Valley Asst. Director - Seattle Valley

(425) 821-4252 H Vice President of Public Relations

(206) 940-4559 C (206) 446-0339 C rtwilson2@msn.com dlahens@lunariconsulting.com

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Messages In Memorium Brethren, please remember these, our own, and all the Brethren who have traveled beyond our physical borders to that undiscovered country.

Virtus Junxit, Mors Non Separabit Robert S. Barker Albert Jones John C. Monroe Steve Sarich Robert Smedsrud David G. Eisner

5/04/2013 8/01/2013 5/31/2013 5/16/2013 8/06/2013 8/20/2012

Need a lift?

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rethren, it has come to our attention that several members that wish to attend our stated meetings are not able to because of the lack of transportation. If you are one of these members and would like to attend our stated meetings please call the office and let us know. We are working on a solution, but we need to know how many brethren are actually in the need for transportation. Please call 206.324.3330 for more information.

Happy Birthday!

Congratulations from all your Scottish Rite brethren to our members who have reached a very important birthday!

Sam Shulman Earl Ingebright Harlan Wilder James Perry James McCurdy Knut Einarsen William Smith Floyd Wikstrom Donald Crawford John Johnston George Jefferson

09/03/1913 09/21/1917 09/10/1918 09/07/1921 09/24/1923 10/22/1914 10/17/1915 10/06/1917 10/01/1919 10/23/1919 10/28/1919

Benton Webb Howard Weber Charles Lamb Edward Floyd Genaro Garcia Richard Hawley Ray Limbo Thomas Hikida Martin Burton James Lumsden

10/02/1920 10/06/1920 10/11/1920 10/30/1920 10/19/1921 10/27/1921 10/11/1922 10/12/1922 10/17/1922 10/27/1923

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Schedule of Events

September 2013 Saturday Tuesday Sunday Saturday

Sept. 7th Sept. 17th Sept. 22nd Sept. 28th

1:00 pm 6:00 pm 1:00 pm 2:00 pm

www.seattlescottishrite.org 30th Degree (Executive Council at 11:00 am) Stated Meeting (Scholarship Dinner) KCCH Investiture (open to public) 33° in Everett (33° members only)

October 2013 Saturday Sunday Tuesday

Oct. 5th Oct. 13th Oct. 15th

1:00 am 11:00 am 6:00 pm

27th Degree (Executive Council at 11:00 am) RiteCare Brunch (Astronaut Bonnie Dunbar - RSVP required) Stated Meeting (Feast of Tishri).

Rose Croix Retreat November 1st - 3rd 2013

From Friday, November 1st to Sunday, November 3rd the Seattle Valley Rose Croix will be hosting the 8th annual Scottish Rite Men’s Retreat at beautiful St. Andrew’s Lodge on Hood Canal overlooking the majestic Olympics. For only $200 you will be served 6 delicious meals, including a salmon dinner on Friday night and prime rib on Saturday night in addition to the two nights lodging!

This yearly event will afford you a rare opportunity to listen, and to communicate your thoughts and ideas with your brothers, and to explore and deepen your understanding of esoteric Masonry. The keynote speaker will be IB Mark Conlee who will be giving a presentation on the historical context in which speculative Masonry developed in England and Scotland during the 17th Century.

Please call Lorna at the Scottish Rite Office (206) 324-3330 for reservations. For more information about St. Andrews, please visit the website: www.saintandrewshouse.org.