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July 2011—An abun-
dance of Brothers donat-
ed their time, tools, and
money to Renovate the
Lodge Room Saturday
and Sunday July 16th
and 17th. new floor
paint, new wall paint,
new trim/door paint,
wall repairs, rasiing the
height of the portrait
wall and fellowship.
In August, we shall have
new drapes behind the
East for a more King
Solomon presentation.
Our 100 year stained
glass box will be hung
over the entrance door in
the transom and will be
turned on by light
switch. It will look very
nice in the evening as
folks walk by to enjoy
down town.
Future efforts will be
continuing with the inte-
rior painting and repairs
to the front exterior of
the building.
Thanks for all your con-
tinued help.
August 2011, Volume 199
Brethren, it has been a
great first month of the
new Masonic year!
The lodge room has
been cleaned up and
painted. Please drop by
and see it. We had six-
teen volunteers working
hard over three days to
complete the work in time
for our OES chapter to meet
on Monday. Thanks to all
of you without your dedica-
tion it could not have been
done.
Congratulations to Bro.
Kevin Main for being nomi-
nated to receive his 'Red
Hat', or KCCH, at the Dal-
las Scottish Rite. It is a
well-deserved honor. Bro.
Main also led the lodge in
an evening of Masonic edu-
cation on July 21st that was
well received. We plan to
have more nights like that
over the next year.
Officers 2
Golden Ratio 3
Fibonacci 4
Lesson Learned 8
Rules of Thumb 8
Lightfoot 9
Calendar 12
Inside this issue:
Clay Smith
Worshipful
Master
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2011/2012 Senior Officers
Worshipful Master Clay Smith 214-616-0930 [email protected]
Senior Warden Kevin Main 214-796-9054 [email protected]
Junior Warden Bill Goodell 214-288-1838 [email protected]
Treasurer Kevin Campbell 541-306-0257 [email protected]
Secretary H. David N Moore 972-424-7851 [email protected]
2011/2012 Junior Officers
Chaplin Larry Lane 972-335-3711 [email protected]
Senior Deacon Brian Chaput 469-831-3993 [email protected]
Junior Deacon Barry Parrish 214-876-6819 [email protected]
Senior Steward Jim Harbor 469-744-6028 [email protected]
Junior Steward Brian Cook 214-923-4260 [email protected]
Marshal Trey Odem 972-245-5030 [email protected]
Master of Ceremonies Reza Khyabani 469-371-6679 [email protected]
Tiler Tony Marbello 214-916-6696 [email protected]
ways need: Kleenex, Cough Drops, Sugar Free Cough Drops, Talcum and Medicated Talcum, Lectric Pre-shave, Williams Pre-shave, knee-high stockings (beigeor nude), Aloe Vera and Cocoa Butter
creams, Oil of Olay, Cleansing cream, Ponds Cold Cream, Moisturizing Cream (day and nightcreams), Toner and Astringent, Liquid make up (light
color), eye pencils, eye shadow,
Worshipful Master Clay Smith is continuing the “Stock the Store” campaign, which provides the “Country Store” where the residents of the Tex-as Masonic Retirement Center can pick up personal items - for
free. This is where YOU can
help! When you buy these types of products for your-selves, please buy one or two extra and bring them to the lodge. There is a large box at the top of the stairs to drop the items as you come in. Here is a list of items they will al-
blush, lipstick, Compacts, loose face powder (light), Chap stick, Cologne: men’s and women’s, Softsoap, Toothpaste: Colgate, Sensdyne, Toothbrushes, Indi-vidually wrapped snacks and candy (mini candy bars), Trident Gum and regular gum, Sleep caps, Flushable moist wipes, Room deodorizers, aero-sol and solid, New and used VHS and DVD movies, Spray Starch, Hair Spray, V05 Hair Styling products.
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Please help...
rangements, stairs, paper de-sign, advertisements, music, color balance as just a few ele-ments of this ratio in our lives. Since becoming a Mason, I have tried to educate myself or to gain further light. I came across the Ratio in a Masonic book and began to search the internet. Its funny how many things are within your eyesight and the grasp of your mind but you are unable to
What is the Golden Ratio ?
see them, then one hears a knock and opens a door.
Basically, the golden ratio is an irrational mathematical con-stant approximately 1.6180339887. Other names frequently used for the golden ratio are the golden section and golden mean. Other terms en-countered include extreme and
mean ratio medial section, di-vine proportion, divine section, golden proportion, golden cut and golden number.
Researchers note that the ratio has fascinated mankind for over 2,500 years. Some civilizations like the Greek give our friend Pythagoras or his followers the
For myself, I was introduced to the ratio by an unconscious sense of balance or scale in construction. I did not know why I felt something was “un balanced” or “out of scale” from an architectural view point but I felt something did not feel right. Others may have noticed nature, art, financial charts, ga-lactic formations, furniture ar-
Statistical analysis seems to indicate that "people involuntarily give preference to proportions that approximate to the Golden Section." The Oxford Companion to Art, Ed. Harold Osbome, First Edition, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1978, p.489.
Watch the video 1st
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD-
ZiqDvnKo&feature=related
Then Read on...
discovery of the concept main-ly because of the pentagram, which has a regular pentagon inscribed with it and because it was the Pythagoreans.
Euclid, another Greek, provid-ed the first known written defi-nition of what is now called the
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golden ratio: "A straight line is said to have been cut in ex-treme and mean ratio when, as the whole line is to the greater segment, so is the greater to the less." Euclid explains a con-struction for cutting (sectioning) a line "in extreme and mean ratio", i.e. the golden ratio. Throughout his book the Elements, several propositions
and their proofs employ the golden ratio. Some of these propositions show that the gold-en ratio is an irrational number (numbers that cannot be ex-pressed by and exact ratio like 3.0 for example).
In 1509 Luca Pacioli published
See page 7 —>
Regular patterns occur
throughout nature which are
defined by mathematicians and
offer power evidence of intelli-
gent Design. The atoms in a
crystal are arranged in a pat-
tern, as are the atoms in the
DNA molecule, the stripes on an
angelfish, and the movement of
the legs of a centipede. These
patterns frequently help to iden-
tify and determine the charac-
teristics of a species.
Fibonacci NumbersFibonacci NumbersFibonacci Numbers
Caption describing picture or graph-ic.
Golden Ratio Continued
Adopt a Chair Program
ONLY 5 CHAIRS LEFT!!!
And 2 chairs are split …per Larry ; )
Remember a loved one forever, and help
GROW the Plano Lodge Building Fund.
Chairs are $100.00 each and new name
Tags are available at a special price of$10.00 each.
Contact Larry Kester for more information.
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At left, is a Fibonacci sequence of quarter-circles inside squares, estimating the Golden Spiral. The Fibonacci numbers are one such pattern that is described by mathematical relationships. They are a sequence of num-bers that can be found in many organisms, such as the spiral patterns in the heads of sun-flowers.
The Great Architect has ar-ranged sunflower seeds without gaps in the most efficient way by forming two spirals. The ra-tio of these spirals varies from one kind of sunflower to anoth-er. In the simplest form of this sequence, each number is the sum of the previous two: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987…
Other Examples
Egyptian Pyramids were designed with reference to the golden ratio. Slant height / distance from center to perimeter = Phi;
Greek Parthenon de-signed and constructed out of golden rectangles;
Modern credit cards are golden rectangles;
The painting, The Last Supper, is based on the golden ratio;
Top of head to navel and elbows / length of forearm = Phi; Top of head to navel and elbows / length of shinbone = Phi; Top of head to pectorals / top of head to base of skull = Phi; Top of head to pectorals / width of abdomen = Phi; Each cycle of the DNA molecule measures 34 angstroms long
by 21 angstroms wide. 34 and 21 are Fibonacci numbers, as noted above. 34/21 is 1.619, approximating phi;
The book Codex Biogenesis show that the whole Human Gnome is controlled by two binary codes attractors which provide a kind of self-organized bitable binary code like in computers.
With the central following difference - the binary code within computers was invented artificially by humans and yet the binary code of Life has either “emerged” spontaneously per-haps by self-organization or was the intentional act of divine creation.
The ratio between both bitable states is exactly equal to “2” (the space between two consecutives octaves in Music...)
The bodies of dolphins and seahorses are defined by the gold-en ratio
Fibonacci, ContinuedFibonacci, ContinuedFibonacci, Continued
The Notre Dame cathedral in Paris is based on the golden ratio;
The human head forms a golden rectangle; The mouth and nose are each placed at golden sections of
the distance between the eyes and the bottom of the chin. Top of head to fingertips / head to navel and elbows = Phi Top of head to navel and elbows / width of shoulders = Phi;
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Fibonacci, ContinuedFibonacci, ContinuedFibonacci, Continued
tem are all related by phi to a statistical significance of over 99%.
The rings of Saturn form two golden sections, divided by
the Cassini division. (The large gap between Satin’s two
most prominent rings.)
The bodies of ants are defined by the golden ratio
Snail shells and many seashells are golden spi-rals, that is, a spiral formed by making suc-cessively smaller golden rectangles.
In plants, petals, leaves, sections, and seeds, pinecones, pineapples and sunflowers all ex-hibit fibonacci numbers;
Fruit seeds form in golden spirals;
Golden ratio in planets: The orbital periods, mean distances, and or-bital velocities of the planets in the solar sys-
Conclusion: Next time your wife wants you to hang a picture, don’t worry about deciding how high you are going to place it on the wall. Just measure the height of the wall and di-vide it by 1.6 or so. Just remember to account for the sag in the string and it should be @ eye level all the time. After wards, you will have an inner sense of bal-ance, and a happy spouse.
What do you think?
Check out the videos for more interesting data: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y3uts8FkxM
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the Divina Proportione, which explored not only the mathe-matics of the golden ratio, but also its use in the geometry of architectural design. This was a major influence on subsequent generations of artists and ar-chitects. The divine ratio and golden rectangles appear throughout ancient architec-
ture and art Leonardo Da Vinci drew illustra-tions
FREEMASONRY AND THE INTERNET
Plano Lodge
www.planomasoniclodge.org
Plano Lodge Member Forum
www.planomasoniclodge.org/forum
Texas Young Masons
www.texasyoungmasons.org
MWSA - District 9
www.9thmws.ntxmason.org
Grand Lodge of Texas
www.grandlodgeoftexas.org
North Texas Masonic Historical Museum & Library
www.northtexashistory.org
Golden Ratio, Continued
leading many to speculate that he himself incorporated the golden ratio into his work, alt-hough there is no evidence sup-porting this it was believed his work was the most pleasing and harmonious means of de-sign; inner balance. Some be-lieve the Greek architecture of the time reflected the ratio; What do you think? Can you see the similarities? Do the square and compasses, when properly set, form the Golden Ratio ?
In Genesis 6:15, God commanded Noah to build an ark saying, "And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits." The end of the ark is thus in a ratio of 5:3. Both are Fibonacci Numbers, thereby approximating phi at 1.667, so close as to be indistinguishable to the eye.
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table.
American Home Lighting Insti-
tute
Lawn Mowing
The lawn is too wet to mow
until all the pud-
dles evaporate
from the asphalt
driveway. Brad Edmondson, editor,
American Demographics
Chandelier
The diagonal dimension of
a chandelier in inches
should equal the diagonal
dimension of the dining
room in feet. Also, the di-
ameter of the
chandelier should
be at least 12
inches less than
the diameter of
the dining room
Night Sky
Stars twinkle, planets
don't.
The moon rises 50 minutes
later than it did the day
before.
It takes two minutes for
the sun to drop out of sight
once it touches the hori-
zon.
Rules of Thumb...
A Long time ago…
A fox fell into a deep well and found himself trapped, at a loss as how to climb back out. A Goat with
an oppressive thirst arrived at the same well. Putting a glad face on his misfortune, the Fox heaped
much praise on the water, saying it was superb, and urged the Goat to descend. The Goat thoughtlessly
leapt down. But once he quenched his thirst and was looking for the two to escape, the Fox said he had
devised a stratagem that would save both of them. “I’ll run up your back, and then I’ll pull you up.”
The Goat readily humored him, now for the second time. The Fox jumped onto his back, reached the
mouth of the well, got out—and ran off.
-AESOP, Fables 9
Lesson learned: Look before you leap in all things, especially high risk ventures
Lesson Learned File
Caption describing picture or graphic.
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“Light is an important word in the Masonic system. It conveys a far more meaning than it is believed
to possess by the generality of readers. It is, in fact, the first of all symbols presented to the neophyte,
and continues to be presented to him, in various modifications, throughout all his future progress in his
Masonic career. It does not mean, as might be supposed, simply truth or wisdom, but contains within
itself a far more abstruse allegation to the very essence of speculative masonry, and embraces, within its
capacious signification, all the other symbols of the Order.
Freemasons are emphatically called the Sons of Light, because they are, or at least entitled to be, in pos-
session of the true meaning of the symbol; while the profane or uninitiated who have not received this
knowledge, by a parity of expression, are said to be in darkness.
The connection of material light with mental illumination was prominently exhibited in all the ancient
systems of religion and esoteric mysteries.
Among the Egyptians, the hare was the hieroglyphic of eyes that are open, because that animal was sup-
posed to have his eyes always open. On this subject a remarkable coincidence has been pointed out, in
the Hebrew language, the word for “hare” is “arnebet,” which seems to be a compound of Aur-“light”
and Nabet-“to see.” So that the word which, among the Egyptians, was used to designate initiates,
among the Hebrews, meant to see the light.
If we proceed to an examination of the other systems of religion, which were practiced by all the nations
of antiquity, we shall find the light always constituted a principal object of adoration as the primordial
source of knowledge and goodness; and that darkness was synonymous with ignorance and evil…this
Excerpts from Lightfoot’s Commentaries
By Jewel P. Lightfoot
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fact of the divine origin of light among the eastern nations, to the fact the light in the east has a clearness and
brilliancy, which is accompanied by an intensity of heat, and is followed in its influence by a largeness of
good, of which the inhabitants of less genial climates have no conception. Light easily and naturally became,
in consequence, with the Orientals, a representative of the Highest Good. All the more joyous emotions of
the mind, all the pleasing sensations of the frame, all the happy hours of domestic intercourse, were described
as being derived from light. The transition was natural from earthly to heavenly-from corporeal to spiritual
things-so light came to typify true religion and the feelings which it embodies. As light not only comes from
God, but also makes man’s way clear before him, it was employed to signify moral truth, and preeminently
that divine system of truth which is set forth in the Bible, from the earliest gleaming onward to the perfect
day of the great sun of righteousness.
As light was thus adored as the source of goodness, darkness, which is the negation of light, was abhorred as
the cause of evil, and hence arose that doctrine, which prevailed among the ancients, that there were two an-
tagonistic principals continually contending for the government of the world.
Pythagoras also maintained this doctrine of two antagonistic principles. He called one “unity, light, and the
right-hand, equality, stability, and a straight line; the other binary, darkness the left-hand, inequity, instabil-
ity, and the curved line. Of the colors, he attributed white to the good principal, and black to the evil one.”
In fact, in all the ancient systems, this reverence for light is a symbolic representation of the external princi-
ple of good, predominant in the mysteries; and the candidate passed, during his initiation, through scenes of
utter darkness and at length terminated his trials by an admission to the brilliantly illuminated sacellum,
where he was said it have attained pure and perfect light, and to have received the necessary instructions
which were to invest him with knowledge of Devine Truth, which had been the object of all his labors…
…The human light is but an imperfect reflection of a ray of the infinite divine light. According to the doc-
trines of Philo, the Supreme Being is a sun of light, whose rays, or emanations, pervade the universe, and that
Lightfoot, Continued
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is the light for which all Masonic journeys are in search, and of which the sun and moon in their lodges
are only emblems, that light and darkness, chief enemies from the beginning of time, dispute with each
other the empire of the world, and is symbolized by the candidate wandering in the darkness and being
brought to light. The visible world is said to be the image of the invisible world.
Light was the first divinity worshipped by man, to it he owed the brilliant spectacle of nature. Its ema-
nations make known to our senses the universe which darkens hides from our eyes and, as it were, give
it existence. Darkness, as it were, reduces, all nature to nothingness, and almost entirely annihilates
man. Naturally, therefore, two substances of opposite natures were imagined, to each of which the
world was in turn subjected, one contributing to its felicity, and the other to its misfortune; light con-
tributed to its enjoyments, darkness despoiled it of them; the former was its friend, the latter its enemy;
to one all good was attributed, to the other all evil, and thus the words “light” and “good” became syn-
onymous, and the words “darkness” and “evil,” it seeming that good and evil could not flow from one
and the same source, no more than could light and darkness. Man naturally imagined two principals of
different natures, and opposite in their effects, one of which shed light and good, and the other dark-
ness and evil, on the universe.”
McKinney York Rite
Chapter Stated Meetings held on the 4th Tuesday of the odd numbered months at 7:30 pm.
Council Stated Meetings are held on the 4th Tuesday of the even numbered months at 7:30 pm.
Commandery Stated Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 7:30 pm. Din-
ner at 6:30 pm.
http://mckinneyyorkrite.com/
Scottish Rite Hella Shrine Stated Meeting August 22 @ 6:30 Stated Meeting August 18 @ 6:00 500 South Harwood Street, Dallas TX 75201 2 121 Rowlett Road, Garland TX 75043
http://www.dallasscottishrite.org/ http://hellashriners.org/
Masonic Appending Bodies
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Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 2 East Fork # 650 Saint John’s # 51 Lebanon # 837
3 Cert Study Plano
6:30
4 Plano # 768
Stated Meeting 5:30
Smothered Pork
Chops
5 Hella Dinner/Bingo
6:15
6
7 8 Blue Ridge # 490
Celina # 919
9 Allen # 1435
Mckinney Com-mandry 6:30
10 Cert Study Plano
6:30
11 Plano # 768
Called Meeting 6:00
Lasagna
12 13 Chapter/Council
Festival—McKinney
14 15 16 Farmersville # 214
17 Cert Study Plano
6:30
18 Plano # 768
Called Meeting 6:00
Meatloaf
Hella Shrine 6:00
19 Hella Dinner/Bingo
6:15
20 Conference Middle Chamber
Library—4:00
21 22 Scottish Rite 6:30
23 Princeton #1436
McKinney Council
6:30
24 Cert Study Plano
6:30
25 Plano # 768
Called Meeting 6:00
Steward T Board
26 27 York Rite Festival
Commandry
28 29 30 Plano Shrine Club
6:00 Holiday Inn
31 Cert Study Plano
6:30
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wealth of information in which to
draw; The North Texas Masonic
Museum and Library.
My intention is to pass on worthy
information and Masonic thought
in order to stimulate you to re-
search on your own those items
you seek further light.
After all, you are either growing
or dying; being a Mason requires
you to labor and further your
knowledge.
Don’t ever stop searching for
light…
Brother Parrish
Well, the Trestle Board is pub-
lished and has a mix of old and
new, webpage and newspaper, a
calendar, web video links and
articles. I will create more web
graphic designs in the future to
make the “flow and show” more
modern but the tradition of Ma-
sonic knowledge will not wa-
ver.
I am open to suggestions in ma-
terial as long as they are not
meticulous in monthly mainte-
nance. Ideas for future articles
and knowledge will be always
welcome. Just in case you don’t
have suggestions, I have a
Making Good Men... Better
Email:
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Ancient Free and Accepted Masons