Verity Lodge No. 59 - Kent, WA

06/03/2026

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06/03/2026

One of ’s best‑known maxims is simple: no politics or religion in lodge. It’s how we protect harmony among people with all kinds of backgrounds and beliefs. But in a world where almost everything feels political or divisive, can anyone really avoid it—even Masons?⁠
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Past Grand Master Russ Charvonia says yes. In fact, he believes Masonry offers a model for finding common ground far beyond the lodge room.⁠
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Read more: https://californiafreemason.org/common-ground
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05/28/2026

Last night some Verity brothers were able to receive CPR & AED training from Puget Sound Fire!

05/27/2026

"It is a sad fate for a man to die
well known to everybody else,
but still unknown to himself."
- Seneca, Thyestes, 401.

05/23/2026

The green beast reaching for the sun symbolizes the lower, wild side of human nature trying to reach something higher and divine. The blazing sun above represents true enlightenment or spiritual perfection, while the sun reflected in the water below represents that same light reflected into the material world….visible, but incomplete and distorted by earthly existence. The creature’s struggle upward captures the central alchemical idea of transformation: the imperfect self longing to rise beyond instinct, illusion, and corruption in order to unite with a higher state of consciousness.

05/16/2026

This evening we had our May Stated Meeting. It was a fantastic evening of brotherhood and fellowship; good food, good conversation, and good education on virtue and some of the symbolism of Jacob's Ladder.

05/14/2026

The co**se laid inside the grave is not merely a dead body, it is the old self reduced to its essential state, stripped of illusion, status, and vitality so that transformation can begin from absolute ruin. Around it, every figure participates in the work of decomposition: the archers repeatedly striking the target suggest invisible forces acting upon the soul, while the man lowering grain into the pit evokes the ancient mystery that life can only emerge after burial and decay. Even the skeleton itself appears preserved in a strange stillness, as though death here is less an ending than a suspended condition between corruption and rebirth. Basil Valentine’s “Key” points toward one of alchemy’s darkest insights: nothing truly new can be created until the former nature has fully entered its own dissolution.

—This is the Eighth Key. One of twelve allegorical images in “The Twelve Keys” of Basil Valentine, a famous alchemical illustration representing the process of putrefaction, published in 1599 detailing the steps to create the Philosopher's Stone.