M.W. NOEL C. OSBORNE SR., GRAND MASTER

Greetings my Brothers; I must first thank you for your trust and confidence in electing me as your 27th Most Worshipful Grand Master of the Jurisdiction of Maryland.

I am humbled and truly appreciative of this opportunity to serve this jurisdiction. In this capacity I am charged with the responsibility to provide the members of this Jurisdiction and their families with the best viewpoint of Masonry in the world. Thus far this year I believe that the MWPHGL stands far above their contemporaries regarding pride and commitment towards Professional Masonic excellence.

To sustain as this greatest Jurisdiction in Masonry, it is essential for us to remain relevant in a dynamic and resource constrained economy. Successfully transforming the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Maryland and Jurisdiction, Inc., can be achieved with our leadership, achieving agility in our organization, applying innovation to our business processes, and embedding state of the art capabilities in our infrastructure. All Regions, Districts and their respective Constituent Lodges must continue to be responsive and adaptive to change. Moreover all concordant subordinate bodies must fall in line with our established courses of action as well.

As we execute our responsibility to the best of our abilities, we provide a great service to the membership of Prince Hall Masonry by liberating them to emphasize on their multifaceted mission of Bonevolence, Brotherly love, Relief and Truth within our communities and in support of our all-encompassing missions, while instantaneously providing the excellence of a life so richly deserved by our Masonic membership and their Families.

As we have completed the first quarter of this Masonic Year – I am proud of the many accomplishments of the

Leadership team members. This team continue to support the efforts of the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Maryland with class and professional maturity. I can assure you that this team is united and functions on one accord.

RESPONSIBILITIES THAT WE WILL CONTINUE ARE AS FOLLOWS:

• 100% accountability with regarding the reconciliation of finances on a monthly basis.

• Refinement of our programs, policies, processes, procedures, systems and methodologies to govern our MWPHGL MD responsibilities

• Top down assessment to analyze all cost and obtain quote from vendors with the goal of cost savings in mind…

• Mandatory Vs. Discretionary Spending

• Recruitment, Retention and Reclamation of our Most

• Valuable Assets (i.e., People)

Respectfully & Fraternally,

M.W. Noel C. Osborne Sr., 33° Grand Master

Elected Line with

R.W. Kevin L. Barney Jr., Deputy Grand Master;

R.W. William Davidson III, Senior Grand Warden;

R.W. Randolph S. Smith Sr., Junior Grand Warden;

R.W. Reginald Jefferies, Grand Treasurer, and

R.W. James Vaughan Grand Secretary along with the support of the Executive

M.W. Prince Hall Grand Lodge, Maryland

Mwphgl Grand Lodge Mission

“The Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Maryland and jurisdiction, Incorporated is a fraternal organization dedicated to fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. Our Fraternal organization takes good men, builds and develops them to be better men. We dispense charity, promote good and solid family values and endeavor significant to aid in the uplifting of humanity.”

Mwphgl Vision Statement

That the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge coordinate integrate and synchronize the efforts for forward progress throughout the Jurisdiction of Maryland and abroad while maintaining 100% transparency for forward progress of its membership.

Mwphgl Core Values

The Community is our focus; Service is our business; Quality - is our hallmark; People - are our greatest asset; Partnership - is the key to our success; Integrity, Teamwork and Professionalism - form our Masonic foundation and Transparency proves your point and keeps us all honest.

MW GRAND MASTER’S MOTTO

If each one meet one and greet one eventually there will be “No One” that does not know some-one. To love one another should be the common goal for

Men, Assembled, Serving, On, Noble, Standards STRENGTH GIVES GLORY

“If a man makes a vow to the LORD, or takes an oath to bind himself with a binding obligation, he shall not violate his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth”

Philippians. 4:13

Thou art born, O Bharata, in a race that hath ever been virtuous. How is it, therefore, that even thou, suffering thyself to be overpowered by passion and wrath losest thy reason?’

Hearing this, Pandu replied, ‘O deer, kings behave in the matter of slaying animals of thy species exactly as they do in the matter of slaying foes. It behoveth thee not, therefore, to reprove me thus from ignorance. ~ Mahabharata

Esoteric work is similar to the precious pearl. In order to attain it, one has to abandon all kinds of secondary interests in life, leaving all that attracts us in this world to dedicate ourselves exclusively to the Great Work.

We have many psychological “I’s” that personify greed, anger, lust, envy, gluttony, and so on. All these diversionary elements pull us in different directions, heading towards their own selfish interests, having their own psychic energy directed toward this or that value

Comprehension is not everything. Somebody can comprehend in an integral way what the three classical forms of anger are: corporeal anger, emotional-moody anger, and anger of the tongue. Nonetheless, this person can continue having all of them. We can even give to ourselves. the luxury of controlling the body, the emotional mood, and the mind; yet, it is clear that this does not signify elimination. When one wants to extirpate passions, then one has to call upon a superior power. I want to refer to the solar, sexual, serpentine power, which is developed in the body of the ascetic. ~ Parsifal Unveiled.

Beyond the physical body, we have the soul. And beyond the soul, we have the spirit. The soul – psyche or psychology – is precisely all those inner activities that we can, at any particular moment, observe. We can, at any particular moment, experience our own heart and mind, the qualities that we have within. Any moment of simple reaction will reveal something within ourselves – a mood, some thoughts, some behaviors that we are doing.

The soul is something that must be developed or acquired. This is why Jesus states that in patience we shall possess our souls. In other words, we do not really possess it. There is all of this activity, but it is like a chaos – we do not possess our soul. The activity of our soul is very confused.

BLOODY SUNDAY.

The Edmund Pettus Bridge became a symbol of the momentous changes taking place in Alabama, America, and the world. It was here that voting rights marchers were violently confronted by law enforcement personnel on March 7, 1965. The day became known as Bloody Sunday.

The march resumed on Sunday March 21, with court protection through Federal District Court Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr., who weighed the right of mobility against the right to march and ruled in favor of the demonstrators. “The law is clear that the right to petition one’s government for the redress of grievances may be exercised in large groups...” said Judge Johnson, “and these rights may be exercised by marching,even along public highways.”

We are caught up in passions, or what we call egos – psychological aggregates, psychological clumps of energy, which move us. These elements, which we can simply call the ego, have taken the prime material of our soul and possessed us with it.

This is why, without our own endorsement to be a certain way, certain actions of our mind and our heart arrive automatically, without any seeming effort. Something happens in our life, and we just feel something about it. We find ourselves saying or doing something; we !nd ourselves sometimes in a bad mood, sometimes in a good mood, most of the time not knowing why. These are all activities that are happening, and we are caught up in them. Within the soul is where our egotistical processes, the ego, exists.

The cain and abel allegory to teach us to subdue our passions and ego and control our lower nature to not be hubris and think we can submit anything to the supreme being with the intent of gaining without approaching the GOATU through SPIRIT not the flesh.

OUR EGO HAS POSSESSED US INSTEAD OF US POSSESSING OUR SOUL. When one frees the energy that the psychological “I’s” have trapped, one takes out the energy from all our materialistic and egotistical interests, thereby freeing oneself.

In order to concentrate on only one thing, thereby performing the Gnostic Work precisely, one must extract this energy from all of the passions and desires that entrap us within this ego. By doing this, one obviously forms a union with the Work, thereby dedicating a fullness to the work on oneself, which, naturally, will lead us to radical transformation.t is necessary for us to understand this point if we really want this radical transformation. Undoubtedly, having love for the esoteric work is a basic factor. To speak of love, we must be very precise in the analysis, so do not forget that I am exact in the investigation and demanding in the expression. ~ Revolutionary Psychology by

Samael Aun Weor

Many people understand each other merely through the sexual aspect, and this is only sexual love. Other people have their love centered only in the emotional aspect. This love is full of bitterness, jealousy, and passions.

Unquestionably, only conscious love deserves our veneration, but for it to exist it is indispensable for us to work on ourselves. We need to eliminate the undesirable psychological elements within us.