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Solomon’s Staircase Masonic Lodge

Solomon's Staircase Masonic Lodge #357•www.solomonstaircase.org
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This podcast is a place for our lodge members to share articles, insights, and Masonic education. We are Solomon's Staircase Masonic Lodge #357, Free and Accepted Masons from Buena Park, California
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SS357: November 2023 Trestle Board - The Call to Brotherhood (Season 7, Episode 5)

Greetings from the East The world is shattered by war. Who can hide from it? Even those of us fortunate to be at a safe distance from its horrors and depravity, still share in some part the gut-wrenching misery and devastation, if only in the understanding of how it fractures and damages civil, moral and peaceful humanity. Apart from its rationale, war is also hard to contain. It can, and has pulled nations into its indiscriminate death spiral, claiming millions of innocent lives. Our early mode...

Jul 19, 2025•14 min•Season 7Ep. 5

SS357: August 2023 Trestle Board - Freemasonry for Tomorrow & Beyond (Season 7, Episode 4)

Greetings from the East Social connection, in-person, has always been and will always be a basic human need. It cannot be overstated how important it is that we meet with others to personally exchange and engage, and to have places where we can assemble and establish relationships and friendships. This also involves shared activities and other necessary aspects of life such as involvement in worthy projects, recreation and culturally significant events, and even those for charitable purposes. Fr...

Jul 12, 2025•12 min•Season 7Ep. 4

SS357: July 2023 Trestle Board: Freemasonry and Politics (Season 7, Episode 3)

Freemasonry & Politics Greetings from the East We are correctly told that the discussion of religion and politics is forbidden in the Lodge. The reason why is so obvious that the phrase has become axiomatic, such that any discussion of them could automatically lead to sharp differences and worse. There are good lessons to be learned from whence Freemasonry emerged, and it having had a profound effect on the future of worldwide governments. From its organizational origins, which publicly aros...

Jul 05, 2025•12 min•Season 7Ep. 3

SS357: March 2023 Trestle Board - Why Freemasonry (Season 7, Episode 2)

Why Freemasonry? The earliest and best known of the English handlers of London Free & Accepted Masonry in the 1720’s, were Dr. Anderson, who wrote the book of Masonic Constitutions, and Dr. Oliver, who wrote extensively on Freemasonry. Briefly, there were other notables at the time of course who simply studied its background and the known initiatory doctrines of antiquity (Ashmole, Desaguliers, et al.), who realized its power in their era as both a movement for the edification of worthy men,...

Jun 28, 2025•13 min•Season 7Ep. 2

SS357: February 2023 Trestle Board: Secrecy (Season 7, Episode 1)

Master's Message As your Master for 2023, I’d like to hear from you. Send me a note at john.mccargar@gmail.com if you have any comments, concerns or questions at all. We have around 170 brother-members many of whom are out of state, many who are possibly unable to attend lodge. But either way, drop me a note and tell me how you are doing or offer some words about your journey at this stage in your life. I’d love to hear from you. The theme this month is secrecy, an important topic throughout the...

Jun 22, 2025•10 min•Season 7Ep. 1

SS357: Black Ink, Farther Stars: An Interview with Author Austin Shifrin (Season 6, Episode 7)

Thank you to Austin Shifrin for spending some time with us to discuss his new book, Black Ink, Farther Stars. His book is available on Amazon around the world. https://www.amazon.com/Black-Farther-Stars-Austin-Shifrin/dp/B0DBCD7PBM “Black Ink, Farther Stars”: The title derives from a mixed metaphor, combining a theurgic practice used by the ancient Greeks to talk with their gods, and the modern use of parallax by astronomers to estimate the distance to celestial objects. The book is 164 pages, a...

Aug 18, 2024•41 min•Season 6Ep. 7

SS357: Leadership in the lodge (Season 6, Episode 6)

In this episode we share several articles on leadership in the lodge. Some for the first time and some from older episodes. Big special thank you to Worshipful Carlos Diez Jr. for his input.

Apr 21, 2024•27 min•Season 6Ep. 6

SS357: The Beehive (Season 4, Episode 11)

In this updated episode we re-share an article written by California Past Grand Master Jeff Wilkins, as well as a few other articles on the beehive.

Dec 04, 2023•37 min•Season 4Ep. 11

SS357: Interview with Austin R. Shifrin author of More Light: Collected Masonic Writings 2017-2021 (Season 5, Episode 18)

Big thank you to Austin for his time. A few audio glitches, but you'll get the point. Title: More Light: Collected Masonic Writings 2017 - 2021 Author: Austin R. Shifrin Publisher: Gatekeeper Press Hardcover - ISBN: 9781662923791 Date of publication: 3/14/2022 number of pages: 130 price: $21.99 retail Paperback - ISBN: 9781662923807 Date of publication: 3/31/2022 number of pages: 128 price: $9.99 retail Media / coverage: Book review, Marge Gonzalez - https://www.margegonzalez.net/forum-books/non...

May 16, 2023•32 min•Season 5Ep. 18
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