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- From: ba@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (B.A. Davis-Howe)
- Subject: Re: Pentagrams
- References: <1992Dec22.000209.2798@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 03:04:39 GMT
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- locklin@titan.ucc.umass.edu ( ) writes:
-
- >I noticed something interesting today. The Masons use a form of multicolored
- >inverted pentagram. I noticed it on a car next to the traditional compass
- >& ruler emblem. Is there a masonic newsgroup? (I know there is a mailing list)
-
- Actually, what you saw was the Eastern Star. The Order of the Eastern Star is
- the dependent order for women. (Dependent in that one must either be a Master
- Mason (male) or a wife, daughter, widow, sister, or mother of a Master Mason
- (the female membership) to be a member of the Order of the Eastern Star.)
-
- Enjoy the journey!
- --Br'anArthur
- Queer, Peculiar, and Wyrd! :-)
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