‘Visiting Vitruvian for St. John’s Day’

    

“Architects should be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music, have some knowledge of medicine, know the opinions of the jurists, and be acquainted with astronomy and the theory of the heavens.”

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

If you will be near Tulsa on St. John Baptist Day, I hope you’ll buy a ticket to the Observant lodge festive board being hosted that evening by Vitruvian 557.

This will be a joint effort by the four Observant lodges, with a fifth in the making, in the Sooner State. An auspicious affair for which the hosts inexplicably have invited me to be keynote speaker.

I will present a brand new discussion—so new, I’m just now writing it (but have been drafting mentally for months)—on how certain eighteenth century Masonic literature informs what we, as Free and Accepted Masons, think, say, and do in lodge.

I have no familiarity with their ritual, aside from seeing the Oklahoma Masonic Indian Degree Team exemplify work years ago, so I hope this subject “works” out.

How can you not love a state that includes
a smoking pipe in its flag design?

Vitruvian 557 meets in Broken Arrow.

I’ll provide ticketing and time & place info when it becomes available.