The Lodge Room: February 2011

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

More Freemasonry in Popular Culture

The late great actor John Edward Thaw, in his popular British series "Detective Morse" plays a police inspector who becomes suspicious of Freemasons in the police department, only to find that a villain used imagery associated with Freemasonry as part of a plot to mislead the inspector while framing him for murder. It is not really a treatment of Masonry but the use of popular perspectives on the fraternity in the U.K. as an incidental plot device.

About the Level Club

Among the efforts to put Masonic and Fraternal ideals into practice- engagement with fellow Masons and wider society outside of the Lodge in the arts, religion, business, politics, charity and other areas- are "Masonic clubs". Some clubs are limited to Freemasons, and family or associates, have historical ties to the fraternity and continue to share its values. (To name one other than ourselves would be to slight the many.) The Level Club is an association chiefly but not solely of Masons and prospective Masons. There are events and an organizational structure for ladies as well as our longer standing gentlemen membership.

At the Level Club, a Masonic interest club, we focus partly on what happens or has happened in Freemasonry and examine ways to better the Craft and fraternalism in general as well as Society at large. This journal is included in that, with its primary focus being Freemasonry itself. We also hold events and maintain forums where Level Club members and associates focus on our interests and activities outside the lodge thus fulfilling Masonic exhortations to further fraternal sentiment and support, love of learning and civic and religious responsibilities in our daily lives.