I am a Life Member, Past Master and Hiram Award recipient of Mill Valley Lodge No. 356, F & AM of California; a Life Member of Marin Chapter No. 102, RAM; member of Redwood Council No. 46, RSM; member, Redwood Council No. 165, AMD; Life Member of the Valley of Oakland, A.•.A.•.S.•.R.•.-S.J., 32°; VII° member of Golden State College, Societas Rosicruciana in Civitatubus Foederatis; Life Member, The Invisible Lodge; Noble, Asiya Shrine, A.A.O.N.M.S.
I am a Senior DeMolay and Life Member of the DeMolay Alumni Association. I am a Past Master Councilor and received the Degree of Chevalier from my Chapter. I was also Division Master Councilor of the Redwood Empire Division.
I am also a Royal Purple° member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, belonging to Marin Lodge No. 200, IOOF; Associate Member Yerba Buena Lodge No. 15, I.O.O.F.; and Golden Gate Encampment No. 1, I.O.O.F.
I belong to both the International Brotherhood of Magicians and the Society of American Magicians.
American Graffiti; Dirty Dancing; Greese; You Can’t Take it With You; To Kill a Mockingbird; Twelve Angry Men; Cold Comfort Farm; Harlem Nights; Chicago; The Man Who Would be King; Murder by Decree; Rosewood; Maltese Falcon; Remains of the Day; Key Largo; Casablanca; The Big Sleep; To Have and Have Not; Murder My Sweet; Nightmare Alley; The Lady from Shanghai; A Touch of Evil; Citizen Kane; The Third Man; Blue Velvet; The Searchers; High Noon; The Magnificent Seven; A Fist Full of Dollars; For a Few Dollars More; The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly; Pale Rider; High Plains Drifter; Unforgiven; Chinatown; The Two Jakes; L.A. Confidential; Mulholland Falls; Cool Hand Luke; Hud; The Hustler; The Color of Money; The Thomas Crown Affair (Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway, 1968); The Thomas Crown Affair (Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo, 1999); Bullitt; On the Waterfront; Godfather Trilogy; Apocalypse Now; Once Upon a Time in America…
Books
Survey of Secret Societies Survey of history and ritual covering diverse organizations including Freemasonry, and groups that have imitated Masonry such as the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Improved Order of Red Men, Knights of the Golden Eagle, Knights of the Maccabees, B'nai B'rith, Orange Order, Royal Black Preceptory, Hibernians, Greek letter fraternities, etc. and so-called magical fraternities such as the Ordo Templi Orientis and Aurum Solis.
On Duties, Cicero; Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle; The Republic, Plato; The Social Contract, Jean-Jacques Rousseau; The First and Second Tract of Government, John Locke; On Liberty, John Stewart Mill.
Retained by the People: The "Silent" Ninth Amendment and the Constitutional Rights Americans Don't Know they Have, Daniel A. Farber; The Great Risk Shift, Joseph Hacker; What's the Matter with Kansas, Thomas Frank; Screwed: The Undeclared War on the Middle Class, Thom Hartmann; Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis and the People who Pay the Price, Jonathan Cohn; Civility: Manners, Morals, and the Etiquette of Democracy, Stephen L. Carter; The No Asshole Rule Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t, Robert I. Sutton; Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals, Saul Alinsky; The True Believer, Eric Hoffer; Beyond Labor’s Veil: The Culture of the Knights of Labor, Robert E. Weir; Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics, Leon Fink.
Revolutionary Brotherhood: Freemasonry and the Transformation of the American Social Order, 1730-1840, Steven C. Bullock; Constructing Brotherhood: Class, Gender, and Fraternalism, Mary Ann Clawson; Secret Ritual and Manhood in Victorian America, Mark C. Carnes; From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967, David T. Beito; The Art and Architecture of Freemasonry, James Stevens Curl; Symbols of Freemasonry, Daniel Béresniak; Freemasonry: A Journey Through Ritual and Symbolism, W. Kirk McNulty; The Way of the Craftsman, W. Kirk McNulty; Freemasonry: Secrets, Symbols, Significance, W. Kirk McNulty.
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitsgerald; To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee; The Poe Shadow, Matthew Pearl; The Dante Club, Matthew Pearl; Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt; Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco; Carter Beats the Devil, Glen David Gold; Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen. ... ... ... etc.
William Blake, Robert Burns, William Butler Yeats, Dylan Thomas, James Joyce, A.B. Banjo Paterson .. ... ... etc.
Magic and Meaning, Eugene Burger and Robert E. Neale; Shattering Illusions, Jamy Ian Swiss; The Craft of Magic, Eugene Burger; Showmanship for Magicians, Dariel Fitzkee; The Trick Brain, Dariel Fitzkee; Our Magic, Nevil Maskelyne and David Devant… … …
Heroes
Social Architects - Builders of their communities
"Do what thy manhood bids thee do/ from none but self expect applause;/ He noblest lives and noblest dies/ who makes and keeps his self-made laws" The Kasidah, Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, KCMG, FRGS
"It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people." - Giordano Bruno
"If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated." The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, CXLIX, Epictetus
Who I'd like to meet: International Freemasons Monthly MeetUp,, Day : MeetUp,, with other local Freemasons at your favorite local cafe; in over 636 cities at the same time to enjoy brotherhood and share ideas about the fraternity and life.
“Of all forms of inequity, injustice in health care is the most shocking and the most inhumane.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. If you want REAL universal healthcare, learn more about how you CAN make a difference. Please click on the banner below or go to: http://www.myspace.com/onecarenoworg
Educate yourself and others about SINGLE PAYER. KNOW the difference between REAL reform and phony schemes that use public funding for private insurance companies to continue business as usual.
"Masonry was not made to divide men, but to unite them, leaving each man free to think his own thoughts and fashion his own system of ultimate truth. All its emphasis rests upon two extremely simple and profound principles, love of God and love of man." - J. F. Newton
Masonic, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and others
*explore the rich history of American Secret Societies from the
most remote recesses of the fraternal lodge.
The artifacts and ritual devices are our best look at a part of
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August 19th - October 22
opening party - Saturday, August 19th, 7 to 10 pm
with Theremin music by Robert Froehner
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Hello brother,
Its nice to see you on here. Hope all is well.
Maybe someday we will attend lodge together.
Till then keep traveling in search of more light!!!
Bro Frank
Greetings & FLT from Santa Rosa #53!
