Yeah, I looked into that a little back when I first found out about all this in January, my grandmother and her sisters were Eastern Star and her brothers were in that same order you mention, I believe, but cant verify. Her youngest brother died a very high level Shriner and I think they are associated too. I cant ask those questions though as they are all dead and gone now. I had asked my grandmother about Eastern star a couple times when I was younger and she just told me it was a group she was with before she met my grandfather. Nothing she seemed overly proud of, but she did wear an Eastern star ring all her life and the car my daughter inherited had an Eastern Star logo on the trunk.
Interestingly enough, I got 3 warnings from police in my younger days when I just knew I was going to get a ticket, and probably should have... I now have realized the truck I was driving at the time, had a California Free Mason decal on the wing window... (the symbol the guys at the top of the pyramid are holding in the link below) I don’t know if there is a connection or not, but??
Here is a Masonic Structure map I ran across while searching then...
It is a HUGE image that I don’t want to hotlink here, so you have to click the link...
https://throughthelookingglassnews.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/the-structure-of-free-masonry.jpg
Fascinating. My memory of the year in California was that the state troopers ALWAYS gave you the ticket. Any other state, a sweet smile would get you out of the problem. Had to be the sticker, I would think.
My grandfather wrote about the masons in one of his newspaper articles. He wrote with respect and reverence for the person they discovered to be one when they went through his effects after he died, so I think that at the regular guy level, they were the same type of person who joined the Lions to do good work for their communities.
BIG map!
Thanks.
The first Q posts were about Alice and The Looking Glass. This very interesting! May also be why we, as a thread are getting so much blow back about our topic.
