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A spectacular two-hundred-year-old Masonic painting from Oneida County, New York, has been restored by the Livingston Masonic Library. The restoration, performed by highly-trained experts at the Williamstown Art Conservation Center, in Williamstown, Massachusetts, was made possible by a generous grant of $7500 made by the Harry S. Truman Foundation in memory of RW Albert I. Cohan. The Harry S. Truman Foundation is associated with Harry S. Truman Lodge, No. 1066, of New York City.
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Originally posted by cutbothways
reply to post by Masonic Light
Do you pay income tax on your compensation?
Actually, you asked twice after he'd already answered the question. You need to pay closer attention.
Originally posted by Masonic Light
I'm not a full-time employee, but everybody who receives a salary gets a W-2 at the end of the year, and pays income tax on it, as well as Social Security and Medicare. Grand Lodge also pays payroll taxes for employees.
Originally posted by cutbothways
I'll be the first one to call BS on the amount listed. People would pay millions to get their hands on ANY secret document from the Vatican, but especially for something as controversial as the Knights Templar.
Likewise, as you also quoted (but seem to have not read)
The Prefect of the Vatican's Secret Archive, Monsignor Sergio Pagano, said there are no discoveries, all the documents were already known.
I'd be more worried that there were 798 other secret societies with libraries that you don't know about!!!
Libraries and scholars from around the world have already reserved most of the volumes being published.
Nope. Nobody's been able to do either, unfortunately. People have tried the argument from both sides, but no conclusions have ever held up additional scrutiny.
Originally posted by endrun
Can someone confirm or deny the KT connection to the Masons?
Originally posted by d. duck
After reading through this thread, I'm wondering if people are upset with the fact that the Masonic organizations don't pay taxes, or that they just disagree with Masonic teachings in general, and are using this forum as another place to disagree.
After graduating from high school, Theron served as a sergeant in the United States Air Force. He loved computers and many of his work history involved computers, most recently working for Computer Systems Company in Saudi Arabia and presently at the Naval Station in Norco
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In addition to his love for his family, Theron had great love and respect for the Freemasons and was active in the Moreno Valley Lodge. Theron also loved volunteering, most importantly, he began the Mason's Free Child ID Program for which he worked tiredlessly every weekend.
In the interests full disclosure, I want to start this off by stating that I joined Al Malikah Shrine in Los Angeles in March of 2004 in a “Cold Sands” ceremonial. I dimited from the Shrine in March of 2005 after just one year of disappointment.
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The Shrine is awash in money, literally. IRS records show that just over 5% of the money the Shrine takes in yearly is actually spent on their hospitals and other charities. The rest stays with the Shrine to support their various internal activities. As a charity, the Shrine seems to be no better than the Red Cross… and all the Shrine labor is donated so their costs should be much lower.
He was admitted into the hospital over the weekend and went into a coma. He suffered kidney failure on Tuesday morning, and was pronounced deceased at 12:31 PM.
Over the last 70 years, hundreds - if not thousands - of people have died from kidney failure due to diethylene glycol (DEG) poisoning.
Originally posted by cutbothways
So far, one anti-mason against 7 masons, in the conspiracy forum.
Isn't the ATS "unbiased" approach telling?
IRS records show that just over 5% of the money the Shrine takes in yearly is actually spent on their hospitals and other charities.
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The money raised through various Masonic efforts and donated to the Shrine could be better put to use by the various Grand Lodges for the benefit of Masonry in general, as the United Grand Lodge if England does. They have a single Grand Charity, into which funds have been invested for a LONG time
You must keep all your extra money under your mattress. Yes, investing donations is a great way to make sure that there will still be money when or if future donations dry up. It's called saving for a rainy day. Good, sound economic principle. But you probably think all banking is corrupt also.
Originally posted by cutbothways
The Mason are investing their donations. Isn't that charitable of them?
It's called saving for a rainy day. Good, sound economic principle. But you probably think all banking is corrupt also.
... Masonry has meant less than this, it has not as yet fulfilled its original purpose of being the efficient initiating instrument it was designed to be; its energies have been diverted from its true instructional purpose into social and philanthropic channels, excellent in their way, but foreign to and accretions upon the primal main intention.