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Old 07-10-2009, 12:21 AM
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Old 07-10-2009, 12:23 AM
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OES & Mason is still really strong..especially down south.You will find a lot of people in their 20's and 30's that are OES/Masons
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Old 07-10-2009, 12:35 AM
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OES & Mason is still really strong..especially down south.You will find a lot of people in their 20's and 30's that are OES/Masons
And a lot more that are older than that.
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Old 07-10-2009, 01:16 AM
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Yes your right about that.OES/Masons are from young adults to seasoned..I was just referring to the person who said it wasnt popular with their age group.which i assumed was 20's or 30's
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Old 09-05-2009, 03:58 PM
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Im interested in becoming a Eastern Star but don't know how to go about getting information on joining can some one help me?
Contact you Local Chapter's Sec. and also visit their website to submit a request for info.
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Old 10-13-2009, 10:09 PM
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Old 11-18-2009, 05:09 PM
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Legitimate Bodies

There are only 2 Legit bodies that is PHA F&AM and Mainstream (predominantly Caucasian)....PHO will never be received as regular due to their irregular formation and practice

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Eureka Lodge #16 F&AM-PHA
Flint,MI
Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Michigan/Jurisdiciton


I've seen some real interesting comments in this intresting thread.
for aspirants of the Order of Eastern Star: for every OES chapter and grand chapter of each state/jurisdiction,there's a lodge and grand lodge for each one..well...there's suppose to be. No OES grand or local chapter can "work" or conduct business without being under a properly chartered lodge or Grand Lodge;Eastern Stars can't conduct meetings or anything w/o a mason(s) present. The OES is actually a unisex group,because men that are masons in good standing can be apart of the OES;they just have to take their degrees as well. You must be 18 to join,you must have a "bloodline",and fit other qualifications of getting voted in. Like someone mentioned on here before,there are some state/jurisdictions that have what we call an "open bloodline" session(i.e. Georgia has an "open bloodline" session two months out of the year);some states/jurisdictions have "open bloodline" period now (i.e. Texas..from what I was told).



Eventhough Masonry is bigger than affiliation(dont just look at it affiliation wise),there are three types of masonry in the U.S.,you have:
Predominately white 'Mainstream' Masons (F&AM/AF&AM) and OES,Prince Hall Affiliation Masons (F&AM) and OES,and Prince Hall Origin-National Compact (F&AAYM) and OES. P.H.O. is still working on being officially recognized from what I was told...I only know little bit about them. 'Mainstream' (or predominately white)Masonry was brought to the U.S. in the early 1700's,under the authority of the United Grand Lodge of England. Prince Hall (or Predominately black) Masonry was established in the U.S. in Boston,MS in 1775 and chartered in 1784. The first lodge for African-Americans is African lodge #459 a year after Prince Hall and fourteen other black men (the "immortal 15") were raised in a white military lodge in boston named Irish Lodge #441...you go read the rest. And find research the history of OES...when it was establised,why,etc..


ALL of the properly chartered,"regular", and/or recognized Grand and Local Lodges/OES chapters of the U.S. work under the United Grand Lodge of England. but all in all, do more research on the order;find out who Prince Hall was why/when Prince Hall Masonry was establised in the U.S....everything. Don't just go to any ol' lodge or OES chapter,because you might "come up short"...don't think that everything you see is real.


And with Masonry being the biggest Fraternity in the world,there's Masons and Eastern stars in other countries;They have their own Grand and Local lodges as well.

OES is also known to be "the Mother of ALL"...
Which founders from AKA,DST,ZPB,and SGR where members of the OES before they found those 4 beautiful BGLO's? I don't know...I'm still trying to find info on that.

I'm through for now...
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Old 11-24-2009, 05:44 PM
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can u please tell me how i can find my local OES chapter for Detroit, Michigan...
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Old 12-16-2009, 11:54 PM
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can u please tell me how i can find my local OES chapter for Detroit, Michigan...

http://www.miphgl.org/
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Old 12-17-2009, 02:08 AM
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Wow, a nine years-old thread still going. Talk about longevity.
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Old 12-24-2009, 01:06 PM
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Old 02-05-2010, 12:37 PM
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Ok ladies please dont shoot me... But help me undestand my findings!

Last week I began looking into to the Freemasons and their plan on The One World Oder and just how deep that madness is. The I come across the Easterns Stars and found that the two are completely connected. The OES also believes this is a Christian Organization, but how is that so if the Freemasons worship Lucifer (Aka Set). Please read the following and know this is not but no means an atttacked but a need for insight.

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Next to Freemasonry itself, our ministry is most questioned about the Order of the Eastern Star (OES), the "Star" as it is fondly called.
The OES was founded in 1868 as a women's auxiliary for the Lodge. It is open to all female relatives of Masons, and functions under the authority of the Lodge. A Master Mason, called the Worthy Patron MUST be present at all Star meetings. There is also another Mason, an Associate Patron, usually present. Otherwise, all the offices are held by women.
To ask what the Star does is a bit like asking what a Lodge does. The easy answer is: Not much. However, the Star does what little it does with a tremendous amount of pomp and ceremony.
Star meetings, like Lodge meetings, consist of opening the meeting with much waving of rods and banners and the singing of hymns. The officers ritually declare their stations and functions and Grand Chapter officers are introduced and honored with tedious predictability. This can easily kill a half hour to forty-five minutes.
Then, minutes are read, sick members are mentioned and any items of mundane business transacted, much like any other club. If members are to be initiated, that is done, and that can take at least an hour.
Then the chapter is solemnly closed, with a lot more ceremonial ado, followed by a social hour. Ultimately, the chief function of a Star chapter, like a Lodge, is to make more members! Everything else is secondary to that.
The Star is regarded by Masonic women as a fine Christian institution within Masonry.
Classics like How Great Thou Art are sung. The motto of the chapter is right out of the Bible: "We have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him'" (Matthew 2:2).
Sadly, one of the key strategies a cult uses is to play upon the common interpretation of words. Dealing with any cult involves getting through a jungle of definitions.
The cult will use words which have common meanings, like "Jesus" or "saved," or well known Bible verses, but will carefully not explain to potential members that they have applied a subtext to these terms, a second layer of meaning!
This is the problem with the OES. The people who put the order together back in the 19th century relied upon the familiarity with Matthew 2:2 as a common "Christmas verse." However, in light of the satanic symbolism involved in the OES, we need to look for another layer of meaning applied to that verse of scripture.
The A.V. 1611 text does not say "eastern star." It says "star in the east." The phrase "Eastern Star" has a specialized meaning in occultism.
It refers to the star, Sirius, which is the most significant star in Satanism! It is sacred to the god, Set. Remember Set as the evil Egyptian god who killed Osiris? Set is probably the oldest form of Satan! The Eastern Star is the star of Set.
However, deadly word games are being played here. Though most women involved in the OES doubtlessly assume they are worshiping Jesus as they kneel around a huge satanic pentagram, it is obvious that the "his" actually refers to Set's star, not Jesus' star.
In Albert Pike's commentary on this degree, we find the usual duplicity found elsewhere in the Lodge. He explains:
"To find in the BLAZING STAR of five points an allusion to Divine Providence is fanciful; and to make it commemorative of the Star that is said to have guided the Magi, is to give it a meaning comparatively modern. Originally, it represented Sirius, or the Dog-star, the forerunner of the inundation of the Nile…"
Pike readily casts aside the bland lie of the degree and confirms that the blazing star is neither Divine Providence, nor is it Jesus' "star in the east." It is an Egyptian idol, the symbol of Sirius!
There is another critical problem in the Star—a reason why no Christian woman would wish to be a part of this organization.
Set (Lucifer) is the acknowledged god of Masonry. Thus, what does it mean for a Christian woman to be adopted into the Star? She is submitting herself to the spiritual authority of Lucifer.
She may not know it, but in bowing before the altar of the Star, the inverted pentagram of Baphomet, she has surrendered herself (however innocently) to the gods of Masonry. That WILL give Satan an entry point into her life, no matter how devout a Christian she may be.
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Old 02-05-2010, 01:31 PM
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Old 02-05-2010, 02:57 PM
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Last week I began looking into to the Freemasons and their plan on The One World Oder and just how deep that madness is.
Not nearly as deep as the madness in your post.
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Old 02-07-2010, 04:18 AM
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Please enlighten me, as I only have questions.....not judgement, but this is the same infomation I continue to find. That is why im here.
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