The Quarry Observer Cayce Masonic Lodge #384 A.F.M |
January 2026 |
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Saturday,
January 17th – INSTRUCTIONAL Monday, February 2nd – Business Meeting Greetings from the East, I hope everyone enjoyed a wonderful Christmas and
a happy New Year. With the new year comes new resolutions—hopefully ones we can keep
for at least a few months! Mine is to become a better cook. I can’t keep letting
Lindsey handle all the cooking… though she does make it look easy. But I digress. Cayce Lodge No. 384 held its first business
meeting of the year, and I’m pleased to report we had a great turnout to kick things
off. Thank you to everyone who was able to attend. Your presence and participation truly
set a positive tone for the year ahead, and we look forward to seeing even more of you at
our upcoming meetings. As a reminder, our Annual Instructional will
take place on January 17th at Elmore Lodge No. 288, located
at 936 Pine Street, Pelion, SC 29123. We will need to be on site by 7:00
AM, so please plan accordingly. This is always an important and worthwhile event, and
I strongly encourage everyone who is able to attend. Looking ahead, we currently have a Third
Degree scheduled for February, with hopes of holding another degree shortly
thereafter. Once dates are finalized, they will be shared promptly. I hope to see a strong
showing for these degrees as we continue to support our candidates and the work of the
Lodge. Additionally, the officers of Cayce Lodge will be
meeting later this month to begin planning our events and fundraisers for the year. More
details will be shared at the next business meeting, and we’re excited about what’s
ahead. Until next time, I wish you all continued health
and happiness in the coming year. Fraternally, Dustan Eberhardt, WM Greetings from the West Cayce Family! On January
5th we held our first meeting of the New Year. We are excited about the upcoming year. I
sincerely hope that you all had a wonderful and great Christmas and New Year, I pray that
the year will be filled with love and blessings for you and families. John Howell, PM,
SW Greetings from the South, I wanted to say it was
good to see everyone after the holidays and I hope that your time with family and friends
was enjoyed. I would also ask for the Brethren to keep all those who were mentioned in the
prayer circle in their thoughts. Looking forward to a good year at the Lodge. William
“Bubba” Burley, JW
The Color Blue Blue is the symbol of
truth and universality, and we have seen how it was therefore much used by Divine command,
and in the vestments of the Jewish priests. It is the color appropriate to the First Three
Degrees, or Ancient Craft Masonry, and the curtains, cushions, etc. of a Lodge are
therefore blue. This color naturally suggests the thoughts of the blue sky and the blue
sea; of their vast extent, their profound depths, those of the sky being absolutely
without limit; of their changelessness throughout the lapse of ages, though clouds may
sometimes for a while obscure the sky, and the storms agitate the surface of the sea.
There is much to engage the mind and much to affect the heart in the thought of the
perfect stillness of the ocean depths, to which the power of the most fearful storms never
reaches; and of the ever unbroken repose of the illimitable space beyond the clouds, where
the orbs of heaven always shine in pure and serene majesty. Such thoughts carry away the
mind from the world and its vicissitudes and cares to the better country. Nor is this all.
The color that symbolizes truth and universality teaches us to maintain truth in our
relations to God Himself and to our fellow man, and it teaches us that our charity ought
to be extended to the entire human race. Truth in our relation to God is, in other words,
sincerity and earnestness in religion, implying a continual cultivation of its graces, and
a constant endeavor to discharge all its duties. Truth, in relation to our fellow-men,
implies nor only the avoidance of all falsehood in speech, but of all that savors of
deceit in our conduct, uprightness in all our dealings, a perfect and unimpeachable
honesty, such that our own conscience may have nothing of which to accuse us, even in
transactions the true character of which only God and ourselves can discern. Source: Wm. W. Vickers
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