The registration deadline for the Masonic Society Semi-Annual meeting and banquet on Saturday in Salt Lake City, Utah has been extended through the end of tomorrow, Wednesday, July 13th.If you are attending the Rocky Mountain Masonic Conference this week, or if you are in the general vicinity, don't miss this outstanding event!
More information and registration form HERE.
Our events will take place Saturday afternoon, July 16 after the RMCC ends and the conferral of the Mark Master Degree in the magnificent Salt Lake Masonic Temple.
All Master Masons are welcome. Membership in TMS is not required.
If you are planning on attending, please make your reservations before this Wednesday.
Here is Saturday's schedule:
1:00 P.M. to 1:30 P.M. Registration
1:30 P.M. to 4:00 P.M. Presentations
Presenters:
Banquet will be at the Alta Club located approximately midway between the Embassy Suites Hotel and the Salt Lake Masonic Temple.
6:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. Cocktail Hour (Cash Bar, No Credit Cards Accepted)
7:00 P.M. Dinner
Here is Saturday's schedule:
1:00 P.M. to 1:30 P.M. Registration
1:30 P.M. to 4:00 P.M. Presentations
Presenters:
- Pierre "Pete" Normand, FMS, former editor of American Masonic Review, and of The Plumbline, the newsletter of the Scottish Rite Research Society and noted Masonic writer and speaker, will present "The Scottish Influence on Freemasonry's Earliest High Degree"
- Glen Cook, FMS, Past Grand Master, Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Utah will present "The Legend of the Third Degree- A Tale of Loss and Sorrow"
- Dr. Jay Williams, TMS Member, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Dr. Williams has a Ph.D. in linguistics, and speaks the Navajo Indian language fluently. His presentation will be: Át’é jiní ‘It Was Said': The Transmission of Architectural Esoteric Knowledge in Navajo and Freemasonry
Symbols, along with the allegories in which they are embedded, provide means of reproducing sacred architecture with a high degree of accuracy without the aid of written forms, in that, such symbols are mnemonic aids or vehicles in the transmission of esoteric knowledge. Symbols within ceremonial Navajo (Diné) sandpaintings form a sacred allegorical template or iikááh which are required in building the hooghan or traditional Navajo home. Such means in reproducing sacred architecture parallels the universal construction of the Masonic Lodge. Such parallelism between Navajo and Masonic transmission of knowledge may be founding characteristics of traditionally oral-based societies.
- Dr. Kenneth Davis, author, Past Master of Lodge Vitruvian No. 767 in Indianapolis, and member of TMS board of directors, Rio Rancho, New Mexico will speak on "Freemasonry and The Tarot"
Banquet will be at the Alta Club located approximately midway between the Embassy Suites Hotel and the Salt Lake Masonic Temple.
6:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. Cocktail Hour (Cash Bar, No Credit Cards Accepted)
7:00 P.M. Dinner
- After dinner remarks will be made by Most Worshipful Brother John C. Liley, Jr., Grand Master of Masons, Grand Lodge of Utah
