Officers and Members of Macario R. Ramos Memorial Lodge No. 355
together with Grand Lodge Officers MD-NCR-A
and Ill. Eugenio S. Labitoria Past Grand Master
The Sublime Paralytic
Apolinario 'Poly' Mabini y Maranan (July 23, 1864 - May 13, 1903)
Apolinario Mabini was born on July 23, 1864 in Barangay Talaga in Tanauan, Batangas. He was the second of eight children of Dionisia Maranan, a vendor in the Tanauan market, and Inocencio Mabini, an unlettered peasant. Mabini began informal studies under his maternal grandfather, who was the village teacher. Because he demonstrated uncommon intelligence, he was transferred to a regular school owned by Simplicio Avelino, where he worked as a houseboy, and also took odd jobs from a local tailor - all in exchange for free board and lodging. He later transferred to a school conducted by the Fray Valerio Malabanan, whose fame as an educator merited a mention in José Rizal's novel El Filibusterismo.
Filipinos and Freemasonry
by Manuel L. Quezon III
Talk for the Annual 2010 Multi-District Convention for All Masonic Lodges in the Philippines
Plaridel Masonic Temple, San Marcelino St., Manila
November 27, 2010
FREEMASONS, n. An order with secret rites, grotesque ceremonies and fantastic costumes, which, originating in the reign of Charles II, among working artisans of London, has been joined successively by the dead of past centuries in unbroken retrogression until now it embraces all the generations of man on the hither side of Adam and is drumming up distinguished recruits among the pre-Creational inhabitants of Chaos and Formless Void. The order was founded at different times by Charlemagne, Julius Caesar, Cyrus, Solomon, Zoroaster, Confucius, Thothmes, and Buddha. Its emblems and symbols have been found in the Catacombs of Paris and Rome, on the stones of the Parthenon and the Chinese Great Wall, among the temples of Karnak and Palmyra and in the Egyptian Pyramids -always by a Freemason. —Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
Masons and Magicians
In the world of professional stage magic, few names resonate with such acclaim as:Bro. Harry Keller,
Bro. Howard Thurston,
Bro. Harry Houdini,
Bro. Charles Carter,
Bro. Harry Blackstone,
In addition to being brothers in the fraternity of American magicians, each was also an active Freemason. Nearly amazing as the magic acts these great illusionists are famous for is the fact that all of the great magicians made time in their busy lives for Freemasonry: Despite the extensive travel entailed in their careers and all the allurements to the vices of the world, each recognized the value of the Masonic brotherhood.
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