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February 2018 THE MAGAZINE FOR SCOTTISH RITE MASONS OF AMERICASM VOL. 49 No. 1 THE A HAUTS PATH BROTHER’S GRADES FORWARD VOICE ACADEMY by Linda Patch by Brothers across by Yasser Al-Khatib & the organization Mohamad Yatim What’s Happening CONTENTS Message from the Looking Forward Stamp Act 3 Sovereign Grand Commander 13 25 Collectanea Close-Up Hope Springs Anew A Brother’s Voice 4 From the Museum & Library 14 Livestream with SGC 26 7 The Spirit of Freemasonry 15 The Path Forward 28 Today’s Family 8 Hauts Grades Academy 19 Brothers on the Net 29 More Than Just Books Franken Manuscript / Masonic Moments Reclaiming the Soul of Scottish Rite Charities 10 20 30 Readers Respond Freemasonry 11 A Major Accomplishment 22 Book Nook 31 Et Cetera, et cetera, etc. Notes from Health Wise 12 Scottish Rite Journal 24 4 14 15 26 EDITOR SOVEREIGN GRAND COMMANDER EDITORIAL OFFICE: Alan E. Foulds, 33° David A. Glattly, 33° 33 Marrett Road (Route 2A), Lexington, MA 02421 CREATIVE DIRECTOR THE NORTHERN LIGHT (ISSN 1088-4416) Ph: 781-862-4410 • Fax: 781-863-1833 Elena Fusco is published quarterly in February, May, email: [email protected] August, and November by the Supreme MEDIA ADVISORY COMMITTEE Council, 33°, Ancient Accepted Scottish WEBSITE: Douglas N. Kaylor, 33°, chairman Rite, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, U.S.A., www.ScottishRiteNMJ.org Donald M. Moran, 33° as the official publication. Printed in Richard V. Travis, 33° U.S.A. Periodicals postage paid at Boston, Alan R. Heath, 33° Copyright © 2018 by Trustees of the MA, and at additional mailing offices. Donald R. Heldman, 33° Su preme Council of the Ancient Ac cepted Donald G. Duquette, 33° POSTMASTER: Scottish Rite of Freemasonry for the Thomas R. Labagh, 33°, advisor Send address changes to Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, U.S.A. The Northern Light, PO Box 519, SUPREME COUNCIL, 33° Lexington, MA 02420-0519. Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, U.S.A. MAILING ADDRESS: PO Box 519, Lexington, MA 02420-0519 CONTRIBUTORS Linda Patch Hilary Anderson Stelling Jefffrey Croteau is the director of is the director of collections is the director of the library and communications for the and exhibitions at the Scottish archives at the Van Gorden- Supreme Council, AASR, Rite Masonic Museum & Library. Williams Library. NMJ, USA. The Path Forward. Robert A. Domingue is the historian for St. Matthews Lodge, Andover, MA, and the editor of The Philatelic Freemason. Leigh E. Morris, 33o, works in corporate communications for a major utility company and is a regular columnist for this magazine. He is a member of the Valleys of Milwaukee and Springfield, IL. S. Brent Morris, 33o, is the editor of the Scottish Rite Journal, a publication of the Southern Jurisdiction, USA. 2 – February 2018 David A. Glattly, 33° SOVEREIGN GRAND COMMANDER Greetings, Looking toward the future, I’d like to share some thoughts be available to all members at no charge. Our special about where I believe the NMJ is headed. education committee has created a great program here. Thanks to the comprehensive survey we undertook • Better communication. The NMJ headquarters recently, we now have a solid strategic plan to follow. staff has increased communication to the Valleys. The Internally, we aptly call it “The Path Forward.” In the Commander is working with the Deputies to provide research, you told the NMJ leadership what you want to more local communication. see from our organization. We are listening. The Path Forward campaign has already developed Here are some actions taken in recent months in marketing materials for use by the blue lodges through response to what you asked us to do: their Grand Lodges. We met with all 15 Grand Masters within the NMJ and offered these marketing materials to • Our new website. The newsite (which I hope you them, and they have been well received. This campaign have visited) includes a number of sections suggested by is ongoing and features our tag line: the membership looking for easy access to information. Soon, an interactive section will allow you to change NOT JUST A MAN. A MASON. personal information, such as addresses, email addresses, etc. We will now focus on Scottish Rite membership recruitment through our various resources of headquarters • Better connection with leadership. I just hosted staff, Supreme Council committees, volunteers, and our our first live webcast, and we will schedule more in the consulting firm. future. This interactive format allows all members to ask questions of the leadership, and make suggestions that Much more to come. will be heard. Fraternally, • Better use of social media. The NMJ has stepped David A. Glattly, 33o, SGC this up in recent months through Facebook, Twitter, our blog and on YouTube. We are currently building a video studio at headquarters to increase this ability and keep our connection with you timely and ongoing. • Educational materials and programs. We are launching a new educational program called the Hautes Grades Academy in 2018. This online program will “You told the NMJ leadership what you want to see from our organization. We are listening!” - David A. Glattly - – February 2018 3 COLLECTANEA CLOSE-UP From the Museum & Library Freemasonry on the High Seas n 1801, master mariner Samuel Derby presented a certificate from Essex Lodge in Salem, MA, to the officers of La Vertueuse Lodge in Batavia, Dutch East Indies (now Jakarta, Indonesia). This document proclaimed “To Iall Brethren through the world” that he had received the Master Mason degree and was due “the reward of a worthy Brother, from all the faithful, wherever dispersed.” From 1779 to 1860 nearly half of Essex Lodge’s members were seafarers. In the late 1700s, Masons did not, as a matter of course, receive certificates, though a Masonic brother planning to travel or undertaking a move could pay a fee and receive documentation of his degree. Essex Lodge was different. With many traveling members who needed certificates, the lodge commissioned Joseph Hillier, Jr., an artist, seafarer, and son of a member, to design a certificate specifically for the lodge. He composition reflected members’ interest in the larger world; the four allegorical figures at the bottom of the certificate represent the continents of Africa, America, Asia and Europe. Master Mason Certificate, 1796. Issued to Samuel Derby, Frontispiece, Ahiman Rezon …, Printed by Essex Lodge, Salem, MA. Designed by Joseph Hillier, Jr., Robert Black, 1764. London, England. Salem, MA. Engraved by Samuel Hill, Scottish Rite Masonic Museum and Library. Boston, MA. Museum Purchase. In addition to certificates, traveling Masons sometimes brought their Freemasonry-related belongings with them on their journeys. This small mark medal and a related apron–both eminently packable–belonged to John Light. Returns at the United Grand Lodge of England show he joined Mariners Mark Medal Made Lodge No. 362 in Liverpool, England, in 1799. A hundred years lat- for John Light, 1800. er, Light’s Masonic artifacts found their way into the collection of England or the United the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. Along with Masonic objects, States. Collection of the Grand Lodge of Masons seafaring Masons brought ideas related to Freemasonry on their in Massachusetts. travels. Some of these ideas came in the form of books. For ex- Photograph by ample, many copies of Ahiman Rezon, a book of constitutions first David Bohl. published in London in 1756, came to America and were even- tually used by American Grand Lodges as a model for their own constitutions. Maritime Souvenirs Pitcher, early 1800s. Possi- Seafaring Masons were also great shoppers for souve- bly Herculaneum Pottery, nirs of their travels. Captain Ebenezer Hatch owned this Liverpool, England. English pitcher, part of the collection of the Grand Lodge Collection of the Grand of Massachusetts. Decorated on one side with a transfer Lodge of Masons in print of a three-masted ship and on the other side with Massachusetts. a transfer print of Masonic symbols, this pitcher reflects Photograph by David Bohl. to Hatch’s interests and accomplishments. Hatch, from Gorham, ME, worked as a master mariner and was raised in 1802 at Boston’s Mount Lebanon Lodge. This pitcher has been preserved in the collection of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts along with Hatch’s English Royal Arch membership certificate. Records at the United Grand 4 – February 2018 Lodge of England show that St. George’s Lodge of Harmo- ing multiple symbols decorated ny No. 25, in Liverpool exalted Hatch in 1805. with a bow. That illustration likely provided the model for the central During Hatch’s time, Liverpool was a busy and import- ornament on this box. ant English port, second only to London as a center for ceramics manufacturers and decorators. Some Liverpool Ship builder and owner Peter retailers stocked jugs printed with standard images so Grant Bradstreet of Gardiner, ME, personalized orders, embellished with initials or other completed the vessel Molocka in painted details, could be executed quickly to accommo- 1857. In 1860, Robert Norton cap- Hilary Anderson Stelling date seafarers with limited time in port. Hatch’s pitcher tained the Molocka on at least one may have been one of these. The American Ship Some mariners brought sou- Molocka in the North Sea venirs of stylish ceramics home off Helgoland, 1860. Carl from their travels as gifts for Fedeler, Bremerhaven, their lodges. In 1810, for exam- Germany. ple, Parker Emerson, a mariner Museum Purchase and who received his degrees at War- through the Generosity ren Lodge in Machias, ME, gave of an Anonymous Donor. “an elegant Masonic Pitcher” to Photograph by his lodge. In 1811, the secretary David Bohl. of Union Lodge, in Dorchester, MA, recorded that sea captain and merchant Nehemiah Wright Skillings made a ‘Handsome Present’ of a pair of transfer-print pitchers for which Skillings received ‘the thanks of the Lodge.’ Not all gifts of imported trans- fer-printed wares were pitchers.