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Living Stones – A Magazine for Freemasons

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Living Stones Masonic Magazine is a monthly magazine by Freemasons for Freemasons. Our magazine is available in BOTH printed copy AND electronic format. Featuring articles from popular Masonic authors & lecturers each month such as Cliff Porter, Tim Hogan, Charles Harper, and many others. We make Lodge education easy.

Writers

W.B. Robert Herd is a Founding and Charter Member of Enlightenment Lodge 198 AF&AM, a Traditional Observance lodge in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In 2012 he served as Grand Orator for the Grand Lodge of Colorado. He is a Past Master of Tejon Lodge 104 in Colorado Springs, and also an Associate Member of Lodge of Living Stones #4957 in Leeds England founded by W.L. Wilmshurst. WB Herd is a Past District Grand Lodge Lecturer for the greater Colorado Springs area, and served two years as the Membership Committee Chairman for the state of Colorado. He is a member of the York Rite bodies, 32* KCCH and past Reunion General for the Southern Colorado Consistory of AASR. Other esoteric orders WB Herd belongs to include Ordre Souverain du Temple Initiatique one of the oldest Templar orders in existence, the Rosicrucians (SRICF), and the l'Ordre Martiniste. He recently published his first book The Initiatic Experience: Ancient Pathways that Led to Your Initiation into Freemasonry. For the past 18 years WB Herd has worked for a global Leadership and Management training organization (Center for Creative Leadership) and is endeavoring to bring such leadership talents he’s learned and experienced to Freemasonry, its lodges, and individual members by creating a Lodge Leadership Course complete with lessons, lectures and discussions. WB Herd has worked, taught, and lectured in England, Scotland, Mexico, Russia, Belgium, Turkey, Nigeria, and cities all across the United States. Contact him if you or your lodge would be interested in a lecture or workshop. He has an exceptionally patient wife and a 14 year old son. He serves as Scout Master for his son’s Boy Scout troop. Troop 1, the oldest troop in Colorado.

W.B. Cliff Porter is a Founding Member of Enlightenment Lodge 198 in Colorado Springs, CO and currently serving a second term as its Worshipful Master. He is also an associate member of Lodge of Living Stones 4957 in Leeds England, and Honorary member of Esoterika 316 in Seattle Washington. He serves as the Chairman of Education for the Southern Colorado Consistory. Cliff is also an active Frater in the Societas Rosicruciana in Civitatibus Foederatis, and a few other Secret Esoteric Orders. He was the senior homicide investigator for the El Paso County Sheriff's Office and maintains a successful confession rate of over 90%. Detective Porter also serves as the senior truth verification examiner for the El Paso County Sheriff's Office. Detective Porter’s interviews have been featured by Granada Productions in the Biography Channel exclusive, “The Interrogators.” He has recently acted as a fraternal delegate in international relations to Istanbul, Turkey. As well as running the masonic education forum, www.thesanctumsanctorum.com, W.B. Cliff also maintains a popular masonic blog The Relevant Freemason.

W.B. Timothy Hogan is an author and lecturer on the Western Mystery School tradition. He is the Grand Master for the Ordue Sovereign du Temple Initiatique (OSTI) Knight Templar lineage. He is a Past Master of East Denver #160 and active member of Enlightenment Lodge #198. He is a Knight Templar in the York Rite and a 32* Knight Commander of the Court of Honor (KCCH) in the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite (SJ). He has been knighted into the Royal Order of Scotland as a Rosicrucian Knight of Kilwinning.. He is an active officer in the Societas Rosicruciana In Civitibus Foederatis. He has been knighted as a Sir Knight of the East and West in the Knight Masons of Ireland. He is a Past Master of the Rocky Mountain Lodge of the Ancient Mystical Order of Rosicrucians (AMORC), having completed 9+ degrees. He is also a Past Master of the Rosicrucian Lodge of the Phoenix and the Grail. He is a Gold-Star Sir Knight of the Knights of the Glen. He has been initiated into the Tibetan Phowa practices of Bon Buddhism by the venerated K.C. Ayang Rinpoche of Tibet. He has also been initiated in various other Orders of Pythagorean, Martinist, Alchemical and Hermetic lineages.

Jason E. Marshall is a practicing attorney in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He has a Juris Doctorate degree, as well as a Bachelors Degree in Political Science, with an emphasis in international relations and cultures. Jason's interest in international cultures has led him to extensively study not only world cultures, but also world religions. His studies into world religions and various esoteric traditions eventually led him to the masonic fraternity. Within the masonic fraternity, Jason is active in numerous leadership roles, and writes extensively on various blue lodge and Scottish Rite themes. Jason is a charter member of Lodge Veritas #556, in Norman, Oklahoma, where he is currently serving as Junior Warden. Jason is also a charter Member of Chapter Veritas #103, in Edmond Oklahoma, where he is currently serving as Excellent High Priest. Jason is also a member of the Societas Rosicruciana in Civitatibus Foederatis, Oklahoma Chapter. Jason also serves as the Chairman for the Guthrie Scottish Rite Valley's Mentorship Committee. In addition to Living Stones Magazine, Jason's writings have also appeared in The Masonic Society Journal, and Societas Rosicruciana's "Ad Lucem" publication.

Charles M. Harper Sr., M.P.S., is a Master Mason from the State of Illinois who maintains active memberships in two Lodges, Pleiades Lodge No. 478, where is currently Senior Warden and the Masonic Education Officer, and Illumination Lodge No. 5. He serves the Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of the State of Illinois as a member of the Illinois Masonic Academic Bowl Committee. He is also a member of Internet Lodge no. 9659 subordinate to the United Grand Lodge of England. He is a member of the Medinah Shriners. He is a member of Keystone Chapter U.D. R.A.M., Lafayette Chapter No. 2 R.A.M., Chicago Cryptic Council No. 4 R.S.M., and St. Bernard Commandery no. 35 KT, of the York Rite. He is a member of the Valley of Chicago Scottish Rite. He is a member of Illuminati Council No. 495 Allied Masonic Degree Council of the United States of America, where he serves as the Junior Warden and has received the rank of Esquire by the Supreme Grand Faslairt, Royal Order of the Red Branch Eri. He serves as a speaker for the Valley of Chicago Scottish Rite. He is the current Junior Deacon of the Illinois Lodge of Research and an Honorary Member of African Lodge no. 459 Prince Hall Affiliated. He holds memberships is the Masonic Society, the Scottish Rite Research Society S.J., the Phylaxis Society, the Philalethes Society, and the Quatuor Coronati Correspondence Circle. Charles M. Harper Sr. is the author of the controversial book, Freemasonry in Black and White, found at www.freemasonryinblackandwhite.com. Using his collegiate education gained from his study of Liberal Arts in the areas of qualitative research methods of history and philosophy at Ashford University, he travels around the United States giving well received presentations on various culturally relative aspects of his book using moral philosophy found within masonic ritual. He delivers an insight on his experiences having held memberships in both the dark world of clandestine Freemasonry, and his journey to becoming a traditional Freemason, the cultural impact experienced, both positive and negative expressed by both ethnic groups, Black and White, which historically dominates the Masonic landscape of the United States.

Brother Brian Don Peace is a Master Mason raised in the Northwest and currently residing in Washington State with plural membership in Missoula Lodge #13 in Missoula, Montana, Meridian Lodge #47 in Meridian, Idaho, and Harmony Lodge #18 in Olympia, Washington. Brother Peace is active in the Scottish Rite with plural membership in Boise, Idaho and Olympia, Washington Valleys. He is currently Venerable Master of the Knights of St. Andrew in Olympia Valley. Brother Peace has been published several times in the Scottish Rite Journal S.J.

Links

• Living Stones Website http://www.livingstonesmagazine.com/