Volume 64, No. 04
July-August 2017
300 Years of Masonry - pg 7
The Rite Helps
ELS&L
Shirts for Sale
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pg 6
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Scottish Rite Communicator
Scottish Rite HELPS
Valley of Seattle
www.seattle-scottishrite.org
SCOTTISH RITE OFFICERS Ill. Ronald A. Seale, 33° Sovereign Grand Commander Ill. Alvin W. Jorgensen, 33° S:.G:.I:.G:, Orient of Washington Ill. Sat Tashiro, 33° Personal Rep. of S:.G:.I:.G:. pr@seattle-scottishrite.org Dan Southerland, 32° General Secretary Communicator Editor secretary@seattle-scottishrite.org Ill. Brian Thomas, 33° Treasurer Tom Lamb, 32° KCCH Almoner PRESIDING OFFICERS Richard Brzustowicz 32° KCCH Master of Kadosh, Consistory Jud Chapin, 32° KCCH Commander, Council of Kadosh Jack Stewart, 32° KCCH Wise Master, Chapter of Rose Croix Bob Guild, 32° Venerable Master, Lodge of Perfection Seattle Scottish Rite Center 1207 N 152nd St Seattle, WA 98133-6213 206 324-3330 voice 206 324-3332 fax
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We at the Seattle Scottish Rite have been asking around for ways we can help our Masonic family and one thought we have heard and are wanting to do is a clothing closet for our Brothers and Sisters who need nice clothes to attend meetings or work and cannot afford them. We hear so many times that a member does not go to our meetings because they do not have a nice outfit and dont want to look out of place. This should never happen as we want them to join our fellowship. We are opening a Brotherhood Closet. So if you have any lightly used or new clothes and shoes you want to contribute please bring them in or contact us and we will try to come get them. The types of clothes we are looking for are Dress clothes, such as suites, ties dress shirts, slacks, shoes and ladies dresses. Once we get it up and going we will pass the items onto anyone of our members who is in need. Free of charge of course. So please look in your closets and storage for those items you don’t wear anymore and give it a new life.
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News from the Personal Representative
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ith this issue of the Communicator, we want to wish the members of the Seattle Valley a wonderful summer as we take our usual hiatus for the months of June, August and September. Our new Scottish Rite year is at its midpoint. The class of 2017 completed the 18o degree in May and we will be resuming their labors in early fall with the 30°.
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ur May meeting, known as the Feast of Kadosh, featured the visit of our Grand Master, MW James Mendoza, and hosted by the Council of Kadosh. He gave an inspirational message to all as he was concluding his year as Grand Master. number of brethren gathered together in the Members Lounge to see the CTC (Celebrating the Craft), the annual fund-raising video event, organized by our Supreme Council in Washington, D.C. We were pleased to see our own Adam Creighton, an officer in the Kadosh and our Valley musician perform in the event. any of us attended the Grand Lodge communications in Yakima in early June. Weather was wonderful, and our new Grand Lodge elected officers are MW Warren Schoeben, DGM RW James Kendall., SGW RW Charles Wood, and JGW RW Chris Coffman.
l Jorgensen informed Seattle Valley that three brethren had been elected to receive the KCCH and the 33o this year. They are Brothers Steve Dazey and Ian Hyde to receive the KCCH and Brother Tom Lamb, KCCH, to be coroneted as 33o. The ceremony will be held in Spokane in late September.
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e want to welcome Analia Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, who will begin meeting in our building n September. With lack of parking in many Masonic centers, which continues to worsen at the local population increases and development continues, we are blessed with our own parking spaces.
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EMBERSHIP, MEMBERSHIP, MEMBERSHIP. We continue to lose our senior members to the Supreme Architect of the Universe. In recent weeks, we have lost Dick Dickason, 33o, and Tom Dahl. The numbers generated by our General Secretary regarding the membership and their ages indicate the continuing need for more members for our Valley to offset these losses. The Venerable Master, and the membership committee are planning on some events in the near future to invite those Master Masons who are not yet members of the Scottish Rite. he General Secretary has membership packets to give to interested Master Masons. Contact the office at 206-324-3330 if you need packets, or drop by the office.
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UTLYING CLUBS. The meetings of our two new clubs, one in the South-end of King County meeting at Verity Lodge, and the other in the Eastside meeting at Issaquah Masonic Center are continuing and gaining momentum. The officers met in early June with Scottish Rite members at South Gate Lodge 100 to explore the potential of a Scottish Rite Club in the West Seattle area.
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e urge all Scottish Rite members, who wish to maintain contact on happenings within the Seattle Valley and are difficult-travelmiles from our Shoreline building, to attend one of the clubs in your area. We need your participation and inputs to provide a meaningful experience to each of you. Additional information on the clubs are in this issue of the Communicator. oin these clubs. Information on the meeting dates and times should be obtained by contacting the office or the club contacts. This Communicator contains information on the schedule of the clubs and the contacts.
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raternally, Sat Tashiro, 33° Personal Representative of the S:.G:.I:.G:.
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t looks like summer is finally upon us. Its so great to enjoy all the festivities of summer with our Brethren and families is it not? Some times it seems that our lodges get quiet in the summer months but even though we are not holding meetings, we are still quite busy with so many Brothers coming in and out, its a great time here at Seattle Valley.
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t is with great pleasure that I announce that our Brother Tom Lamb 32°KCCH has been chosen to receive his 33° Honor, along with Brother Ian Hyde 32° and Brother Steve Dazey 32° will receive their KCCH Honors. Congratulations to these great brothers who have so faithfully served this fraternity.
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would also like to congratulate the Seattle Valley Members as we have received our 2016 VMAP Award. This is the second year in a row we have received this and the action never seems to slow down. Great job Brothers all. A special thank you to Brother Todd Pike for all his hard work in working to put this all together.
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ince I am sending out congrats to all I will offer them to our Brothers who are in this years class as we held our 18th degree and all but two were conferred. We will be holding a special conferment for those two brothers this summer so watch the facebook page for further and if you would lke to help please let me know. We will be holding the 30th degree on Sept. 9th and the 32nd on November 4th. please plan to attend and welcoming our new brothers into this great fraternity.
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am working on some events and one is a possible dinner cruise with our wives. What do you all think? Give me some input to what you would like to see. I have had some brothers give me some great ideas but always like more.
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n a personal note: I know our lives get busy (especially if you are an involved Freemason) but as such we need to remember what and who we serve. I am a senior DeMolay and an Associate Gaurdian for Jobs Daughters and I can say I get no greater joy than when I am with my Daughters of Job. So get out to a meeting at least and see what our youth are doing. I dare you all to walk away from their meetings and not feel so good about time so well spent.. All three of our youth groups love and need us, even if its just attending their meetings. I just got back from Jobs Daughters Grand Session and dont remember when I laughed so hard or had so much fun. Wait, yes I do... It was the last time I was with them all! Fraternally, Dan Southerland, 32° General Secretary
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WHATS NEW AT eARLY lIFE
Speech &Language Do you remember when we changed our name from RiteCare to Early Life Speech & Language? How about when we announced upcoming events? Are you interested in learning more about our staff or those darling kids who come through our clinic each week? It’s easy to do all of that in one spot. Or two. Facebook and Twitter. We made it easy for you, you can follow one or the other and you get the same information because they’re linked. All of our events, announcements, happenings and fun things go up on Facebook and then are linked to Twitter for maximum exposure. So come visit us, in person or online, we’d love to chat! There are great conversations going on for each post and you’ll learn so much and probably see several familiar faces. How do you find us? www.facebook.com/earlylifespeech www.twitter.com and search for Early Life Speech
Charitable Giving Brother Leland Dellinger knowing the greatest of these is Charity, has seen to bestow to the Seattle Scottish Rite and three other charities a gracious gift of over $99,000.00 to each. This generous gift makes us all remember our journey and who we touch along the way and beyond. And now abideth Faith, Hope and Charity but the greatest of these is Charity
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300 Years of Freemasonry
Around midsummer 1717, the first Masonic Grand lodge is said to have been created in London. Although the event is not documented in any primary sources, Freemasons across the globe – and there are between 2 and 3 millions of them – celebrate this tercentenary with a host of special events: concerts, exhibitions, and parades. But what role has the fraternity – that in our day also includes a growing number of women – played in history? Who were the men (and women) attracted by secrecy, initiation, and symbolism? Are the masonic lodges precursors of modern civil society? Our view of Freemasonry oscillates between two typical positions: idealization and distrust. Pierre Bezukhov, the hero of Tolstoy’s War and Peace (1869) joins a masonic lodge in St Petersburg which marks a profound transformation. Pierre develops an ethos of philanthropy and global consciousness and there is no doubt that Tolstoy viewed the brotherhood as a positive force in history, which of course most of masonic practitioners have done since its inception
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But at the latest, starting with the French revolution, another image has prevailed. In a nervous search for culprits, the spotlight was directed towards fraternal orders such as the Freemasons or the infamous Bavarian Illuminati that could be blamed for the downfall of crown and church. Since then freemasonry has been the object of conspiracy theories preferably in authoritarian states. But even in Britain an Unlawful Societies Act was adopted in 1799 that placed masonic lodges under governmental control until 1967. And about three decades later, the Home Affairs Committee investigated the alleged influence of freemasonry in society, triggered by some high profile miscarriages of justice. Modern freemasonry became a global movement in the 18th century and its ideas have since created a considerable social, cultural, and political impact. Since its official inception in 1717, without any formal governing body, it spread throughout the world as a prominent feature of associational life. It became one of the largest non-governmental secular organizations. Following a dispute over ideological matters in the 1870s, the masonic world is divided into two main spheres of influence: lodges adhering to the United Grand Lodge of England (UGLE, 1717/1813) and those adhering to the Grand Orient de France (GODF, 1738/72). Besides these two major masonic bodies there exists a large number of independent, self-authorized masonic lodges and masonic-like fraternal orders. Female membership is today a prevalent yet still disputed feature of freemasonry. And a wide range of other fraternal organizations were established, based on principles of freemasonry.
The historical origins of freemasonry are to be found in medieval professional craft-guilds for stonemasons, active in the construction of cathedrals, churches, and secular buildings around Europe. Modern freemasonry was modelled on the imaginative world of these guilds, with their architecture and geometry, mythology, symbols, feasts, and rituals, and it represents both in real and in imagined terms a continuation of this heritage. Strikingly, blended into this heterogeneous mix was the powerful idea of descent from Chivalric orders in general and the Knights Templar in particular, as well as from Greek and Roman mystery cults.
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Against the backdrop of a strongly polarized view on freemasonry, recent scholarship has attempted to clear a middle ground from which fraternal history can be studied, solidly based on documentary evidence. The idea of a universal, all-embracing brotherhood has clear elements of cosmopolitan thought that recur throughout the history of freemasonry. However, prominent freemasons have been involved in a number of national liberalization and independence movements across the globe. And despite its cosmopolitan ethos, issues of race, religion, gender, and sexual orientation illustrate the fault-lines and limits of masonic tolerance. Since the early 18th century there has also been a friction between established Christian churches and freemasonry. Starting with 
the first papal ban in 1738 (followed by many more), the Catholic Church was most prominent in its condemnation of freemasonry. These condemnations have however not prevented practicing Catholics from joining masonic lodges, and in countries like Ireland freemasonry was and is particularly evident. At least since the French Revolution, freemasonry has been accused of orchestrating radical political change. Reinforced by anti-masonic and anti-Semitic writings at the turn of the 19th and into the 20th century, European right-wing groups mainly after World War I absorbed this anti-masonic ethos into their ideological and political agendas. After a negative trend in membership recruitment following the 1960s, there have been signs of recuperation not least occasioned by the collapse of Soviet communism after 1990, and many new national grand lodges have been established in central and eastern Europe. Against the backdrop of a strongly polarized view on freemasonry, recent scholarship has attempted to clear a middle ground from which fraternal history can be studied, solidly based on documentary evidence. Spearheaded by individual researchers in France, Austria, and the US and occasioned by a new availability of sources since 1990, a growing global group of scholars has produced primary research that throws new light on the fascinating history of the brotherhood. This trend has manifests itself in the publication of handbooks, critical source editions, academic journals, and conferences devoted to the subject.
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Messages Happy Birthday!
Congratulations from all your Scottish Rite brethren to our members over 90 who have reached a very important birthday!
July
Marvin Jackson 7/18/1920 Cecil Waldo 7/20/1920 William Sollien 7/30/1920 Paul Magnusson 7/16/1921 Donald Lintott 7/22/1921 John Frodesen 7/30/1921 Russell Rogers 7/10/1923 Herbert Hunting 7/18/1923 John Jones 7/22/1923 Harold Kusulos 7/01/1924 Herbert Thompson 7/05/1924 Joseph James 7/15/1924 Boone Taylor 7/16/1924 John Howard 7/24/1924 Otto Klein 7/27/1924 Lawrence Bosch 7/11/1925 William Hall 7/16/1925 Amos Chapman 7/18/1925 Charles Melgard 7/25/1925
August
Marwil Holm 8/30/1920 Alvin Thornton 8/05/1921 Gerald Bryson 8/06/1921 Elmer Kirkendall 8/20/1921 John Godfrey 8/28/1921 William Broadhead 8/28/1922 Joseph Roundhill 8/01/ 1923 David Bevin 8/01/1923 Harold Baglien 8/05/1923 Henry Torget 8/11/1923 Wilford Bradshaw 8/27/1923 Charles Ceder 8/01/1924 John Larson 8/01/1924 R. Douglas Putnam 8/02/1924 Clifford Smith 8/04/1924 Ervan Hestad 8/30/1924 Charles Draper 8/06/1925
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