Chapter 7 of Why This Confusion In The Temple by Dwight L. Smith talks about how the fraternity has to be careful about publicizing anything about the fraternity.

Most Masons and Lodges don't think this all the way through, and the results can be more injurious than helpful.

With the advent of all the social media apps and lodges eager to post everything about what the lodge is doing, we may be setting ourselves up for a more negative response than a positive one.

Curmudgeon Supreme and I read chapters 4-6 of Why This Confusion In The Temple, and wonder if history will not repeat itself?

Will the fraternity ever learn?

Are we destined to be mediocre?

Was Dwight L Smith, Past Grand Master of Indiana, warning us all those years ago?

Let's find out.

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Dwight L. Smith's thought-provoking articles of 1963 and 1964 are just as relevant today as they were back in those times.

Why have we not heard more about this information, and how does it rank among the several issues affecting the Masonic Fraternity?

Can we ever get out of our own way and just follow what Freemasonry has laid before our feet?

But what does that even mean?

Let us contemplate after lifting heavy weights, or before lifting heavy weights.