Young Masons Form New Grand Lodge You Won’t Find the Freemasons in Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code at your Old Neighborhood Lodge

Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" cine and his new book "The Solomon Key" will advance millions of men to seek advice on the age-old fraternity of Freemasonry. What will they find? Unless they apperceive area to look, they'll acquisition annihilation added than an old man's doughnut and coffee club, angle fry socials, racism and mediocrity.

Atlanta, GA -- Knock on the aperture of a lot of any Masonic abode in America, and you won't acquisition Dan Brown's blue-blooded Grail-seeking men of honor, science and mysticism. If you administer to get anyone to acknowledgment that aperture at all, you will a lot of acceptable acquisition an old man's coffee and doughnut club, men who anticipate of themselves as a religious account club.

Unless, that is, you've agape on the aperture of Modern Freemasonry.

In 2005, Freemasonry rose from the ashes and bits of intolerance, bribery and mediocrity, and the United Grand Lodge of America was born. After seven years of aggravating to plan aural the "traditional" Antient Freemasonry arrangement of alone accompaniment Grand Lodges, a accumulation of adolescent Masons in Atlanta capital to abate the Masonic acquaintance in their lodge. They started by basic an breezy accumulation to abstraction and altercate the ethics, history and acceptation of Freemasonry.

This accumulation bound became accepted with the adolescent Masons in the area, and anon admiring the absorption of admiral aural the Grand Lodge of Georgia. For affidavit still not absolutely clear, the Grand Master of Georgia ultimately declared their accumulation “clandestine” (a Masonic chat generally acclimated in abundant the aforementioned way that the Catholic Church already acclimated the chat "heretic") and ordered the arbitrary "erasure" of these adolescent men from the rolls of their lodges.

Freemasonry, already a force for amazing acceptable in our country — a lot of of the nation's founding fathers were Freemasons — had devolved into not abundant added than a acceptable ol' boy arrangement brindled with petty squabbles, ability struggles, and title-seeking. The amusing agenda in abounding lodges consisted of the casual pot luck banquet and a annual absurd chicken or barbeque alms fund-raiser.

And in animosity of their crumbling associates – the archetypal Freemason is over 65 years old – and the affecting bead off in applications from adolescent men gluttonous to accompany their lodges, the Grand Master of Georgia tossed out the actual affectionate of energetic, thoughtful, and committed adolescent men he and Freemasonry so badly need.

Undaunted, these adolescent men assertive that Freemasonry is beyond than the Grand Lodge of Georgia and its absolute Grand Master, abutting calm with adolescent men from added states who were analogously annoyed with their absolute admirable lodges and formed the United Grand Lodge of America.

The Grand Lodge website www.grandlodgeusa.org lays out its purpose and mission: abating Freemasonry to its aerial and blue-blooded ideals. "The mission of the United Grand Lodge of America is the Brotherhood of All Mankind beneath the All-Seeing Eye of Deity through Universal Tolerance and the broad-mindedness of humanity. It is a bulletin of accord for all humanity, a bulletin added important for the apple now than at any time in animal history.

"But Free-Masonry for the account of itself is bare of acceptation and purpose. Many Masonic organizations accept absent afterimage of the alluringly aggressive ambition of the Craft, and accept attempted to about-face Free-Masonry into annihilation added than a amusing club and philanthropy. The aftereffect of this is aboveboard throughout the Craft today as the abiding Light grows anytime dimmer while the associates rolls age and shrink. We, however, appearance account to God and flesh as our priorities. The adaptation of Free-Masonry is the aftereffect of the achievement of our duties and obligations to both God and man. While political and religious leaders draw curve on the apple to abstracted and bisect men, we body bridges to affiliate them in Peace, Love and Harmony."

The apple needs to hear, learn, and abide this message. And Modern Freemasonry is the messenger.

For added advice about Modern Freemasonry, see www.modernfreemasons.org.

About the United Grand Lodge of America

The United Grand Lodge of America was accustomed on December 27, 2005 to restore and abate Freemasonry in the Unites States. The Grand Lodge and its accessory Lodges are accessible to all men behindhand of their chase or religion. For added information, go to www.grandlodgeusa.org.

# # #

Algonquin Park Lodge Announces 5-Year Renewable Energy Strategic Plan

Algonquin Park's Bartlett Lodge, a baton in the resort industry for implementing sustainable, eco-friendly, and energy-conserving operational practices, advertise a 5- Year Plan to abate activity burning and decidedly access Solar Power Generation output.

Huntsville, Ontario -- Bartlett Lodge (http://www.bartlettlodge.com) has been an Algonquin Provincial Park battleground back 1917 and its accepted owners, Marilyn & Kim Smith, are absolutely committed to ecology responsibility. They accept approved their adherence by introducing a amount of avant-garde activity extenuative measures and utilizing environmentally affable and non-polluting practices and articles into the resort's circadian operations. The Smiths accept just appear a plan, to be implemented over the next 5 years, which will decidedly access Bartlett Lodge's present solar activity capability.

In a move to become absolutely activity arrogant application blooming power, Bartlett Lodge's 5-year activity plan will body aloft the improvements that accept already been made. Currently, one of Bartlett Lodge's twelve cottages is absolutely off grid, serviced by solar ability installations and two cabins are filigree tied. The cabin's solar electric grid-tied arrangement aswell accuse the batteries of the electric outboard motor on the resort's baptize taxi. As well, the capital abode dining allowance has a Solar Thermal Hot baptize system. In 2006, Bartlett Lodge became the aboriginal Ontario resort to about-face its electricity supplier to Bullfrog Power - Ontario's alone 100% blooming electricity company.

Beginning in the abatement of 2008, Bartlett's 5-year plan calls for Photo Voltaic panels to be installed. These panels will aftermath apple-pie ability that will be fed on to the Ontario Hydro electricity grid. To advice them accomplish their goals, Bartlett Lodge has assassin Generation Solar Renewable Energy Systems Inc. (http://www.generationsolar.com), a aggregation that designs, installs and casework a ample ambit of renewable activity systems for residential and bartering applications. Once the solar panels accept been installed, Bartlett will become a registered architect of blooming electricity beneath the Ontario Power Authority's Standard Offer Program. The Standard Offer Program allows operators of baby renewable activity breeding accessories to participate in Ontario's electricity accumulation arrangement by bartering ability through their bounded electricity distributors and accepting paid a fair and abiding amount for the ability they provide.

A complete analysis of Bartlett's accepted electrical burning will be undertaken with the ambition to abate burning by 30% from present levels. To ability this goal, there is a plan to alter all of the lodge's electric hot baptize tanks with on-demand top ability propane heaters. As well, all of the bedfellow cottages that currently are acrimonious by electricity will be retrofitted with copse or propane heating systems.

Bartlett Lodge's 5-year plan demonstrates Marilyn and Kim Smith's administration and adherence to attention and renewable energy. Due to their acuteness to the ambiance and the measures that they accept taken over the years to bottle and conserve, Bartlett Lodge will abide a role archetypal for those in the resort industry adulatory to accept acceptable and energy-saving operational practices.

About Bartlett Lodge:
Located aural the borders of world-renowned Algonquin Provincial Park, Bartlett Lodge (http://www.bartlettlodge.com) is an flush Ontario resort alms beach cottage rentals and accomplished dining in a aboriginal wilderness setting. This melancholia eco-friendly Modified American Plan resort is ideal for ancestors vacations, adventurous couples' getaways, weddings and accumulation functions. For added advice on Bartlett Lodge accommodation alarm 1-866-614-5355.