June Stated Communications: 7:30 PM 1st & 3rd Wednesdays Electronic 2018 September through June Edition 3rd Wednesdays July and August Meeting at: 375 Highway 67, Dousman, WI 53118 Mail to: P. O. Box 284, Hartland, WI 53029-0284 Secretary’s Phone: 262.367.2309 E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.lodge42.net

Worshipful Master Bruce Boland 262.354.4394 Senior Warden Timothy Behling, PM 414.254.3060 Junior Warden Tim Zellner, PM 414.588.5169 Treasurer Frank McKenna, PM 262.893.1106 Secretary Gary Pilgrim, PM 262.367.2309 Chaplain Craig Wiggins, PM 267.416-0788 Senior Deacon James Lukas 262.370.4356 Junior Deacon Robert Staley 262.309.9111 Senior Steward Scott Millikin 262.490.6023 Junior Steward Aaron Marjala 414.975.9770 Counselor Henry Pynakker, PM 262.370.2665 Organist Volunteer Opportunity 555.555.5555 Robert Jewell , PM 262.212.4616

Trustees Daniel Bast, PM 414.333.1412 James A. Johnson, PM 414.651.2072 Charles Gastrow, PM 262.370.1149 Thomas Ewald 414.429.5904 Frank McKenna, PM 262.893.1106

Sickness & Distress: Please notify the Senior Warden of Brothers in Sickness or Distress.

Notice of Trustee Update

The trustees of the Lodge would like to inform everyone that in addition to normal business at our stated meeting on Wednesday June 6th, we will also have a special report from our building committee on new developments for a New Lodge Meeting Place. This report is confidential and is intended for the members of Lake Country Freemasons Lodge #42. We look forward to seeing as many Brothers attend as possible.

Page 1 of 7 spike participation or increase new members? Perhaps initially, but how about long term? While there is some belief that we are losing our identity without a building, I believe our new website is a far greater platform to indicate who and what we are. Where do you go to learn of new businesses or gather information? I don't drive down Main Street. IN a nutshell, we need a place for 10 guys to meet twice a month for about an hour.

Thanks to a gifted and prudent group of trustees and others, we have a very good financial plan in place. We have the ability to assist brother Mason's and families, and other worthy endeavors. We can continue this and more if we consider staying in our current Temple and operating as we have the past 3

years.

I know there is some frustration with our current pace of possible construction. But the grass Master's Message is not always greener on the other side. From my perspective, we are sitting in the middle of the Brethren, fairway on some nice green grass, with a very bright

I was recently reminded of the distinction between a future. You don't always know what you've got, Temple and a Lodge. The Temple is the building, until you don't have it anymore. the Lodge is the individual members, along with its WM Boland charter. I had been told this before, but it struck a [email protected] or 262.354.4394 chord with me, and some thoughts regarding our desire to construct a new Temple. We have been inaccurate in saying we wish to build a new Lodge

building. Perhaps splitting hairs, but as masons, we aim to be accurate.

LCFM 42 is in a very good position, financially. We also have the luxury of meeting in an actual Temple that was previously built. Most Lodges in other jurisdictions do not have that option. We remember meetings in the old Temple, all the maintenance and upkeep, requiring all the expenditures to be voted yes or no. And this is the norm if you travel to other Lodges and sit in their stated meetings. Do we want or need to go back to that position and place future brothers in such a predicament? The Lodge does not own the Temple, the Temple owns the Lodge. Some Temples have From the Secretary’s Desk put their lodges out of business.

Grand Lodge estimates that about 10% of members My Brothers, of a typical Lodge are active members, and attend Yes it June and we still have eighteen (18) brothers some stated meetings, and other activities. I think have not paid or contacted me about their dues. Our LCFM 42 is about average, maybe a little higher.. mailing in late April resulted in four dues payments There are a number of reasons and it is not a bad so I claim a minor victory. I hope that the thing. But it is a reality. Is a new Temple going to

Page 2 of 7 remaining notices will rise to the top of our 06/01 GARY R. PILGRIM brother’s priority list in the reasonable future. 06/03 JAMES P. MAHANEY

Again lodge is charged to help, aid, and assist a 06/04 ROBERT K. FLOWERS brother that is in such circumstances. Please 06/06 ROY A. BRAATZ remember that your circumstances will be held in 06/06 JOHN D. PRESTON strict confidence, dealt with by a very small 06/06 JOHN A. KOPATICH 06/06 DANNY J. MCLENDON committee, AND, will never be brought to the 06/08 ROBERT L. SCHROEDER lodge floor; unless that is your desire. 06/11 DAVID M. RADEMACHER We have moved forward into the electronic age 06/24 JON E. HOLTZ giving us four methods to accept *partial or 06/25 HENRY J. WERNER complete payment. 06/27 JOHN E. ARNOLD  By check: Checks are to be made 06/28 TIMOTHY P. GAYNOR 06/29 ALEXANDER KENTFIELD payable to Oconomowoc-Hartland Lodge No. 42, and mailed to me, Gary Pilgrim, 506 E Capitol, Hartland WI Masonic Anniversaries

53029. 24 SHAWN P. WOLF  By cash: Delivery accepted at a Stated 66 RUSSELL R. HAYS Meeting at Village on the Square 54 PETER W. STATHAS  Pay Pal – Direct Pay Me: 53 LARS G. ANDERSON https://www.paypal.me/WILodge42D 45 KENNETH T. LEQUE JR ues 44 WILLIAM S. DANIEL  Pay Pal on our website: 43 STEVEN L. WANDREY https://lakecountryfreemasonslodge4 48 JOHN D. PRESTON 2.org/ sign in to access the member 25 RONALD E. APPLEMAN section, payment can be made under 24 ROY A. NEHS Member Check Out 15 ERIC J. STEINMETZ

*If you are making a partial payment, please notify 16 W. DAVID T. GREVENKAMP the Secretary that you are doing so. 11 MICHAEL A. DRAEGER Communication is everything but just maybe we 10 JOHN A. KOPATICH must remember that we are brothers and as such 8 RYAN C. KLAUSTERMEIER have no problem offering a helping hand. 8 TODD A. STACH

To avoid confusion: Even though Oconomowoc- Hartland Lodge is now Lake Country Freemasons Calendar - June 2018

Lodge No. 42. We are still banking under our Fri 01 8:00 AM Annual Communication former name while working the name change Madison Masonic Center through our federal governmental system. 301 Wisconsin Ave. Madison, WI

S & F Sat 02 8:00 AM Annual Communication Madison Masonic Center Br. Gary Mon 04 1944 Battle of Midway began Wed 06 1944 D-Day (Happy Birthday Joe) Lodge mailing address: Wed 06 7:30 PM No. 42 Stated Meeting Lake Country Freemasons Lodge No. 42, F & A M Wed 06 7:00 PM Bethel No. 35 at Dousman P. O. Box 284 No. 315. Installation of Officers. nd Hartland, WI 53029 Sat 09 10:00 AM Silas H Shepherd 2 quarter meeting at West Bend Lodge No. 138, 301 N. University Dr. Happy Birthday Brothers West Bend WI53147

Page 3 of 7 Wed 13 7:00 PM GBD Chapter at Dousman Matron along with Brother Ian Watts as Worthy No. 315. Patron. All Order of the Eastern Star members are Sat 16 8:30 AM Officers and Trustees invited to attend. Meeting at Compass Point. Wed 20 7:30 PM No. 42 Stated Meeting Godfrey DeBoullion Chapter of DeMolay. On Saturday, May 12 State Officer elections were Wed 20 7:00 PM Bethel No. 35 at Dousman Sat 23 6:00 AM Pancake Breakfast Fund conducted at Lake Lodge. Two members from Raiser at Pewaukee Beach Godfrey DeBoullion were elected to state offices. Sun 24 6:00 AM Beach Cleanup Brother Braden Baumann was elected as State Wed 27 7:00 PM GBD Chapter at Dousman Master Councilor and Brother Joe Bloom was No. 315. elected as a State Officer. They will be installed at the DeMolay Conclave on the last weekend in July. *VOS Represents Village on the Square, Glenn L. Humphrey No. 364, Dousman Facility. Hereafter Job’s Bethel No. 35 known as VOS. The June edition of the Wisconsin Masonic Journal features a picture of the Job’s Daughters at our Important Planning dates: Spring Family Breakfast. There are some familiar faces in the background along with our Grand Jul 04 Independence Day – Remember – Junior Warden Brother Ken Gorgan. You may have already seen the picture of the bowling party “Freedom takes continuous Effort” th Jul 16 9:30AM The 15th Annual Pay it we hosted on Sunday, April 29 . We are happy to Forward Golf Outing. continue our relationship with the Bethel. Jul 18 7:00PM No 42 Stated Meeting The Bethel will conduct the installation of officers on Wednesday, June 20 at the Dousman Lodge, 214 N. Main. The program begins at 7 PM. If you are Annual Communication not attending our second stated meeting in June, June 1 &2 2018 please attend and represent your lodge at the event. Madison Masonic Center It appears to be difficult to develop the ability to be 301 Wisconsin Ave, Madison, WI 53703 in two places at the same time.

Things to bring to the Annual Communication • 2018 Dues Card • Apron (none will be provided) Don’t just wear the pin, • Print and bring all meal tickets

The adventures of OES Chapter 13 On Thursday, May 3 Oconomowoc-Hartland Chapter 13 of the Order of the Eastern Star was consolidated into Dousman-Rob Morris Chapter No. 257 of the Order of the Eastern Star. The ceremony was conducted under the direction of Grand Matron Sister Mary Barnett and Grand Patron Brother J. Paul Tigleth assisted by other Grand Chapter officers. Dousman-Rob Morris Chapter No. 257 meets in the Humphrey Community Room on the first Thursday of every month with the exception of January and

February. The meeting begins at 7 PM. Consolidation of the chapters results in a full corps of officers. Installation of officers the 2018-2019 Live it will take place at the meeting on June 7, 2018. Sister Ruthann Watts will be installed as Worthy

Page 4 of 7 ROUGH AND PERFECT Boards of the entered Apprentice Degree disclose by: Unknown what we readily recognize as the Trestle-Board, Provided by our Canadian Brother, Wayne Anderson, FCF, MPS although in those days it was known as “Tarsel!”

Adjacent to it is what is plainly a Rough Ashlar. The rough Ashlar and the Trestleboard seem to have Immediately next is a drawing of a cube, been symbols in Ancient Craft Masonry at least surmounted by a pyramid - a cubical stone with a from the beginning of the period pyramidal apex.

(1717). Early French tracing-boards display the “pierre- They are illustrated on the earliest of the old cubique,” of cubical stone. tracing-boards which have come down to us. Just when or how the Perfect Ashlar came into our Modern tracing-boards show the Perfect Ashlar (not symbolism is another matter, and not as simple as it the rough Ashlar, as Oliver had it) in place of the appears. In 1731 one Samuel Prichard, who Broached Thurnel, or cubical stone with pyramid denominated himself as a “Life Member of a atop.

Constituted Lodge” wrote and published “Masonry Mackey quotes Parker’s “Glossary of Terms in Dissected,” the first of a long series of exposes of Architecture” as follows: . In it is this curious dialogue, purporting to be held between the Entered “Broach or broche is an old English term for spire, Apprentice during his initiation, and some initiating still in use in Leicestershire, where it is said to officer: denote a spire springing from the tower without any intervening parapet. Thurnel is from the old Q. “Have you any Jewels in your Lodge?” French,“tournelle,” a turret or little tower. The

A. “Yes.” Broached Thurnel, then, was the Spired Turret. It was a model on which Apprentices might learn the Q. “How Many? principles of their art because it presented to them, A. “Six, three movable and three immovable.” in its various outlines, the forms of the square and the triangle, the cube and the pyramid.” Q. “What are the movable Jewels?” Modern authorities dispute this. G.W. Speth finds A. “Square, Level and Plumb Rule.” that Broach, in Scotland means to rough-hew. Q. “What are their uses?” Thurnel, he states, is a chisel with which to rough-

A. “Square, to down true and right lines; Level, to hew, rather than a model of a spired turret on which try all Horizontals; and Plumb Rule, to try all an Apprentice might learn to work. But, he inquires, Uprights.” what then becomes of the pyramid on the cube, displayed on the old tracing-boards? Moreover, the Q. “What are the immovable Jewels?” Scotch use “boast” as an alternate word for “broach,”

A. “Tarsel Board, Rough Ashlar and Broached and “boasted ashlar” can be found in modern Thurnel.” dictionaries, meaning chiseled with an irregular surface. As a matter of fact, no one really “knows” Q. “What are their uses?” just what our ancient brethren meant by Broached A. “A Tarsel Board for the Master to draw his Thurnel; what we do know is that somewhere in the designs upon, Rough Ashlar for the Fellow-Craft to early formative period of the modern ritual, try their Jewels upon, and the Broached Thurnel for Broached Thurnel gave way to Perfect Ashlar. the entered Apprentice to learn to work upon.” But it did not necessarily do so because of the The learned Dr. Oliver, most prolific of the early presence on the tracing-board of a Rough Ashlar. writers on Freemasonry, to whose industry if not to No less an authority than R.W. Charles C. Hunt, whose accuracy Freemasonry owes a great debt, Librarian and Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge unwittingly muddied the waters of antiquity in of Iowa, presents the “Perpend Ashlar” as its which this Broached Thurnel was apparently probable progenitor. A Perpend Ashlar - the word immersed! He confused it with the Rough Ashlar, has many variations, such as parpen, parpend, stating that the two were the same. Old tracing- parpent, parpine, parpin, parping - is a dressed stone

Page 5 of 7 which passes completely through a wall from one less. When the craft has fashioned the Perfect side to the other, having two smooth, vertical faces. Ashlar, it has nothing else to do.” With part of This perpenstone. Or bonder, or bondstone, is the which all can agree; if some think that there yet same as the Parping Ashlar of Glocestershire - a remains building to be done, after the Ashlars are stone which passes through a wall and shows a fair hewn to perfection, we may still make our own the face on either side. thought that the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge

In the “True Masonic Chart” published by R.W. Above wants only perfection in the spiritual stones Jeremy L. Cross in 1820, appear pictures of the for the “House Not Made With Hands.” But the Rough and Perfect Ashlars, showing them symbolism can be carried further. In this subject “Introduction to Freemasonry” reads: substantially as we know them today. It is noteworthy that the stones illustrated are more than “The common Gavel, which breaks off the corners twice as long as wide and high, which seems to bear of rough stones, the better to fit them for the out the idea that the Perfect Ashlar, at least, was builders use, joins the Rough and Perfect Ashlars in once the Perpend Ashlar. a hidden symbol of the Order at once beautiful and

Before examining the symbolism of the Ashlars it is tender. The famous sculptor and ardent Freemason, illuminating to read at least one passage from the Gutzon Borglum, when asked how he carved stone Great Light: into beautiful statues, once said: ‘it is very simple. I merely knock away with a hammer and chisel the “And the king commanded, and they brought great stone I do not need, and the statue is there - It Was stones, and costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay There All of the Time.’” “In the Great Light We the foundation of the house. “And Solomon’s read: ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is Within You.’ We builders and Hiram’s builders did hew them, and the are also there taught that man is made in the image stonesquarers; so they prepared timber and stones to of God. As Brother Borglum has so beautifully said, build the house.” (I Kings, V 16-17) images are made by a process of taking away. The

There is a distinction between builders and stone perfection is already within. All that is required is to squarers - while those who cut and squared the remove the roughness and excrescences, ‘Divesting stone and those who built, both hewed, yet they our Hearts and Consciences of the Vices and were distinct in functions. It is also interesting to Superfluities of life’ to show forth the perfect man observe the classification “great”, “costly” and and Mason within.” , always original, “hewed.” “Great” of course refers to size. The larger thought the interpretation of the Rough and Perfect the stone, the harder it was to cut from the quarry, Ashlars, as given in our Ancient craft monitors and the more difficult to transport, and therefore, the ritualistic instruction, to be superficial. He found more expensive. But “costly” may also refer to the another meaning: expense of hewing. Then, as now, the more truly “The Rough Ashlar is the people, as a mass, rude and are fully a stone was hewed and smoothed, and unorganized. The Perfect Ashlar, cubical stone, squared and polished, the more time was required symbol of perfection, is the State, the rulers and therefore, the more “costly” the stone became. deriving their powers from the consent of the Few symbols seem more obvious, at least in their governed; the constitution and laws speaking the simpler aspects. will of the people; the government, harmonious,

Rough Ashlar, man in his untutored state; symmetrical, efficient - its powers properly distributed and duly adjusted in equilibrium.” Any Perfect Ashler, man educated, refined, with mind brother is privileged to extend symbolism in new filled light. It is this symbolism which Brother J.W. directions as far as he wishes; if his reading of a Lawrence evidently had in mind when he wrote: symbol is to him satisfactory teaching of a truth, it “The Perfect Ashlar, as a symbol, is the summum is a good reading. But the rough and Perfect Ashlars bonum of Freemasonry. That is to say, everything are sufficiently inclusive of the many truths-within else in Masonry leads up to it. The V. of S.L. the grasp of the average individual, without describes it, the checkered pavement illustrates it, extending the interpretation to such vast the Great Architect no less than the Grand conceptions as the people and the state. Even Pike, Geometrian desire it, and are satisfied with nothing great interpreter of symbols though he was, never

Page 6 of 7 contended that the original symbolism of the Considered thus, the Rough and Perfect Ashlars Ashlars, as developed from operative practice by become symbols of greater interest than appear on the early Speculatives, was of a political nature. only a casual inspection. One interpretation is, Hunt’s reading of the Perfect Ashlar, as the perhaps, as satisfactory as another - it is one of the successor to the Perpend Ashlar, is most beautiful. great beauties of symbolism that interpretations can In “Some Thoughts on Masonic Symbolism” he differ widely and yet all be true, and all fit with suggests: each other. As one writer puts it:

“We call it the Perfect Ashlar, but we must “Most symbols have many interpretations. These do remember that it is perfected only because it is not contradict but amplify each other. Thus, the completely adapted to the purpose for which it was square is a symbol of perfection, of honor, and made, namely; to exactly fit into its place in the honestly, of good work. These are all different, and building, and act as a binder for other stones.. “In yet allied. The square is not a symbol of wrong, or order that it may do this, it must possess certain evil, or meanness, or disease. Ten different men attributes and through these attributes we are may read ten different meanings into a square and reminded ‘of that state of perfection at which we yet each meaning fits with, and belongs to, the other hope to arrive by a virtuous education, our own meanings . . . all these meanings are right. When all endeavors and the blessing of god.’ It has two faces men know all the meanings, the need for to be exposed, and both must be absolutely upright. Freemasonry will have passed away.” (“Foreign It does not have one standard for the world and Countries”) another for the home; the same face, square and Read the symbolism of the Ashlars as we choose, true, is presented both to the world and the Lodge, from the simplest conception to the most profound, and it teaches that we should not have one code of the though remains; even as the cornerstone of a morals for one place and another for another, but temple must be a perfect ashlar, so are these that right is the same wherever we are and under symbols cornerstones of our Speculative Science, whatever circumstance we may be placed.” the more beautiful and important that learned men The making of a Perfect Ashlar from a Rough have found in them so many and such beautiful Ashlar requires skill, tools and a plan. Without any lessons. of the three the Ashlar cannot be made perfect.

Skills to use the tools means education to wield Chisel and Mallet - education to use the talents God gave us in whatever walk of life we may be called.

Tools must the workman have, for empty hands cannot chip away hard stone; tools must the Speculative Craftsman have. for an empty mind cannot wear away the resistance of our complicated life. Speculative tools are honor and probity, energy and resource, courage and common sense and the like virtues, the generation of which forms character. Most especially must the operative workman have a plan to which to hew. His mind must see both dimension and form, otherwise his tools will cut aimlessly, and his Ashlar will be askew, not square, fit only for the waste pile or the curiosity shop. So must the Speculative workman have a plan to which to fit his Perfect Ashlar of character . . . an ambition, a goal for which to strive, some hope in the future towards which he can stretch eager hands, bending every energy to accomplish.

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