It's Our Thing

This is a post based upon my personal position, not on official lodge policy. Now, when I was in the East it was lodge policy but now that I am in "retirement" mode I have to fight my desire for total control and trust in our capable leadership. This is a post about reflection as well as the future of our lodge.

Worshipful Walker is doing a tremendous job since he assumed the role of Worshipful Master. It's a huge responsibility and he has embraced every last bit of it. Now, it was the original motivation of this lodge to be something different within Post-Modern Freemasonry. The idea was to be a "specialty lodge" that would focus on the aspects of the sacred feminine within the Craft and well as the creation and working of a brand new Masonic Rite, the Hellenic Rite of Freemasonry.

We didn't really want to be a lodge where membership was even a consideration. We had our original three officers and that was fine with us. Of course, I knew that there would be a time when this had to change, I just didn't want it to.

I have been a Mason for quite some time. A member of many Masonic orders. I have grown tired over the years of the bullshit and frankly, it has made me somewhat cynical and guarded. Lodge Hera was my project, I was not about to let it devolve into a "typical" Masonic lodge.

I realize now that this was my own "headtrash" that I needed to overcome. I wasn't doing anyone else a favor by being withdrawn and isolationist. The Hellenic Rite went from idea , to rough form, to working ritual, to a full Rite capable of divine transmutation. It's time for it to be known.

From the beginning we had a lodge motto, It's Our Thing. It still is but I'll have to admit, now that we are taking on new members and are a working and growing lodge, it's a lot of fun. Not to mention deeply fulfilling. Taking on our first initiate and then growing that initiate to a raise in wage to the Fellowcraft degree did something I didn't expect, it caused my own further remanifestation.

In closing, I'm so proud of Lodge Hera. As it stands today as a beautiful, growing and thriving lodge of true Brethren. It's place in the Nation, and in the worldwide current is firmly established. Far from typical, exceptional.

It may be our thing, but it's time for the world to know about it.

IN LVX,
P.D. Black- Lodge Hera PM