"Here is the test of wisdom ... it is the certainty of the reality and the immortality and the excellence of things. Here is humankind tallied. We realize here what we have within us, the past, the future, majesty, love." Walt Whitman c. 1850 C.E.

OFFICERS - 2009

Robert Harvey
Worshipful Master
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Marino Pallotta
Senior Warden
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James Voss
Junior Warden
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Correspondence

Secr. Ron Ehemann
Hesperia Lodge No. 411 AF&AM
Jefferson Masonic Temple 5418 West Gale Street
Chicago, IL 60630

STAFF - 2009

Officer Proficiency and
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Bro. George Washington:
"Observe good faith and justice
towards all."

INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS - 25 JANUARY 2009

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Bro. Worshipful Master John Sarabia speaks prior to the installation of the new officers. Photo credit: Mr. William McDermott ( Wm. M. )

Bro. Worshipful Master Robert Harvey approaches the altar beside Installing Marshall Gonzalo Meza. Photo credit: Wm.M.

Bro. Worshipful Master Robert Harvey takes his obligation at the altar as his officers stand beside him. Photo credit: Wm.M.

Bro. Worshipful Master Robert Harvey receives his charge standing in the East from Rt Worshipful DDGM, Russell E. Johnson,
facing his brethren, holding a copy of Masonry's great light, the Holy Bible. Photo credit: Wm.M.

Bro. Worshipful Master Robert Harvey receives the 24 inch guage. Photo credit: Wm.M.

Bro. Senior Warden Marino Pallotta approaches the altar beside Installing Marshall Gonzalo Meza. Photo credit: Wm.M.

Bro. Senior Warden Marino Pallotta receives his charge standing in the East from Rt Worshipful DDGM, Russell E. Johnson. Photo credit: Wm.M.
WM Harvey now sits in the East and Installing Chaplain, Bro. Rick Taman, PM, sits at the right. Photo credit: Wm.M.

Bro. Junior Warden James Voss is conducted to the East by Installing Marshall Bro. Gonzalo Meza. Photo credit: Wm.M.

(Left) Bro. Treasurer Roger Frazier is conducted to the East by Installing Marshall Bro. Gonzalo Meza. (Right) Bro. Guillermo Orejudos is conducted to the East by Installing Marshall, Bro. Gonzalo Meza. Bro. Meza prepares to invest the Tyler's with his sword. Photo credits: Wm.M.

Installing Secretary Bro. Joseph Laiacona chats with Bro. Secretary Ron Ehemann. Photo credit: Wm.M.

Bro. Chaplain John Sarabia, PM, is invested with the jewels of his office by Installing Marshall, Bro. Gonzalo Meza.
It is Hesperia's tradition that the Master of the previous year serves as Chaplain in the subsequent year. Photo credits: Wm.M.

Bro. Junior Deacon Shiloh Madsen is invested with the jewels of his office by Installing Marshall, Bro. Gonzalo Meza. Photo credit: Wm.M.

Bro. Chaplain John Sarabia, PM, receives his charge in the East. Photo credit: Wm.M.

Bro. Junior Deacon Shiloh Madsen receives his charge in the East. Photo credit: Wm.M.

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"I found in myself, and still find, an instinct towards a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence both of them, I love the wild not less than the good. .... Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that never fails. In the music of the harp which trembles round the world it is the insisting on this which thrills us. The harp is the travelling patterer for the Universe ..."

I sustained myself by the prospect of reading ... It is worth the expense of youthful days and costly hours, if you learn only some words of an ancient language, which are raised out of the trivialness of the street, to be perpetual suggestions and provocations ... the adventurous student will always study the classics, in whatever language they may be written ... what are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old. ... Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written. .... However much we may admire the orator's occasional bursts of eloquence, the noblest written words are commonly as far behind or above the fleeting spoken language as the firmament with its stars is beyond the clouds. There are the stars for those who can read them. ...

The writer ... speaks to the intellect and heart of mankind, to all in any age who can understand him. ... A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. IT IS THE WORK NEAREST TO LIFE ITSELF. It may be translated into any language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; - not represented on canvas or in marble only, but carved out of the breath of life itself." HD Thoreau, Walden, Or Life in the Woods, c. 1850 CE CONTINUED on the bottom of the next page, page 2 of 3.

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