#masoniclodge

Masonic Lodge

In South Pass City, Wyoming—this was the first masonic lodge in the state. I believe it's maintained by the South Pass City Historic Site run by the state of Wyoming (an excellent example of preservation).

Like nearby Atlantic City, there are some year-around residents in South Pass City.

Still working on restocks and new resin items so those may not be added until later next week. In the meantime more vintage goodies being added:

Vintage Masonic tie tack. Two tone with dark blue enamel and diamond cut faceted edge.

Morals and Dogma The Master Mason

Part IV

It is lamentable to see a country split into factions, each following this or that great or brazen-fronted leader with a blind, unreasoning, unquestioning hero-worship; it is contemptible to see it divided into parties, whose sole end is the spoils of victory, and their chiefs the low, the base, the venal and the small. Such a country is in the last stages of decay, and near its end, no matter how prosperous it may seem to be. It wrangles over the volcano and the earthquake. But it is certain that no government can be conducted by the men of the people, and for the people, without a rigid adherence to those principles which our reason commends as fixed and sound. These must be the tests of parties, men, and measures. Once determined, they must be inexorable in their application, and all must either come up to the standard or declare against it. Men may betray: principles never can. Oppression is one invariable consequence of misplaced confidence in treacherous man, it is never the result of the working or application of a sound, just, well-tried principle. Compromises which bring fundamental principles into doubt, in order to unite in one party men of antagonistic creeds, are frauds, and end in ruin, the just and natural consequence of fraud. Whenever you have settled upon your theory and creed, sanction no departure from it in practice, on any ground of expediency. It is the Master’s word.