Errata
- Freemasons For Dummies 1st Printing
Most errors
listed below from the first printing of Freemasons For Dummies have been corrected in the second printing,
which was in February 2006. The notable exception is that Leonardo
DiCaprio was not removed from the list of Famous Masons. Mr. DiCaprio
is NOT a Freemason, and my apologies to him and to all who have
repeated this error based on finding it in the book. Thanks to Ed King and his
Masonic Info website for tracking the source of my error.
Below are the
known errors in the first printing. Some are
editorial mistakes, some
are factual. I have not included simple typos in the list below, but I
am grateful to everyone who has forwarded corrections to
me, and
I encourage readers to keep me honest. Please let me know if you spot
any
other
errors by emailing me at: FMFDcorrections@hodapps.com
•
Back Cover - "Rites"
not "Rights" Not mine, the publisher has to take the bullet for
this one.
• The Missing
Chapter 19
In the final effort to get the
manuscript down to
its proper length, the original Chapter 19 about Masonic phrases was
eliminated by the editors. Unfortunately, several references to it
elsewhere in the book were
NOT cut. Notably, page 5 and page 288. The mysterious missing Chapter 19 is
available here for those of you desperate to have the complete Dummies
experience.
• Dr. James
Anderson
On page
314, change Dr. John Anderson to Dr. James Anderson.
On page
337, change Dr. John Anderson to Dr. James Anderson.
On page
355 in the index, change Anderson, Dr. John to Anderson, Dr. James
• Page 16:
"...so
I
explain them in Part IV as well"
should say
"...so I explain them in Part III as
well."
•
Page 66: King Charles I was beheaded in 1649, not 1641.
• Page 94:
Change "The
name of the lodge is always followed by a number..." to read
"The
name of the lodge is generally followed by a number..."
Massachusetts and Hawaii do not use lodge
numbers.
(These
two switched statements
have flummoxed new lodge officers ever since the book came out. My
apologies!)
• Page 143: Explanation of the
Plumb. Change the last line, "it is the officer's badge of the
Senior
Warden" to read
"it
is the officer's badge of the Junior Warden"
•
Page 144:
Explanation of the
Level. Change the last line, "the Level is also the officer's badge
of
the Junior Warden" to read
"the
Level is also the officer's badge of the Senior Warden"
• Page
163: "Price
of
darkness" change to
"Prince of Darkness." A subtle but real distinction.
• Page
187:
Change "Its
61 degrees sound exactly like Freemasonry..." to read
"Its degrees sound suspiciously like
Freemasonry..."
• Page
250,
2nd paragraph reads: "blue for fidelity; and violet for service."
Change to read: "blue for fidelity;
indigo for
patriotism; and violet for service."
• Page
256:
Change the following
sentence "A dedicated Virginia Freemason named Paul Bessel..." to read
"A dedicated Washington D.C.
Freemason named
Paul M. Bessel..."
Now that I have his DC brethren mad at both him and me...
• Page 285: Third paragraph should
be
replaced. New
paragraph should read:
"A handful of Grand Lodges have
recently
changed their rules to require more than just one negative vote to
reject a
petitioner.
This has been done to account for the "one crazy voter" possibility.
The thinking is that if a sitting Lodge member has a reason why a
petitioner
should be rejected, he should stand up and tell the Lodge why, and not
simply
vote in secret. However, this is an unusual practice.
• Page
292:
Louis Armstrong was
not provably a Mason. He appears on many lists of famous Masons, but
references to his supposed lodge name and number do not exist in any
Prince Hall or other regular Masonic records.
• Page 293: Remove Leonardo DiCaprio
from
the list. He is
not a Mason. Thanks to Ed King for tracking the source of this error
down.
• Page 294: Text reads: "The
present
Grand Master is
HRH Prince Edward, the Duke of Kent, brother to Prince Charles."
He is actually the second cousin of
Prince Charles. Being both a colonist in rebellion and a mere
provincial, I am often baffled by such royal liaisons and those family
trees
with very few forks. If you catch my meaning. Here in the states we
have the good sense to have laws against consanguinity. There,
intermingling with your own relations makes you a well paid tourist
attraction. Go figure.
• Also, remove King Hussein of Jordan from
the list. His
status as a Mason, much less as a Past Grand Master in Jordan or
Lebanon, though widely reported on many Masonic lists, has not been
proved.
• Page 343:
Incorrect address for
the Grand Lodge of Alabama Free and Accepted Masons. The correct
address is:
2055
Cobbs Ford Road, Suite 200
Prattville,
AL 36066
• Page
346:
Under the Grand
Lodge of New Hampshire add the following
Web: http://www.nhgrandlodge.org
• Page
350:
Left out the mailing
address. Entry should read:
Prince
Hall Grand Lodge Free & Accepted Masons Jurisdiction of
Massachusetts
Mailing
address:
P.O. Box
173
Dorchester,
MA 02121
Street
address:
24
Washington Street
Dorchester,
MA 02121
Phone:
617-445-1145
Fax:
617-445-8698
Web: http://www.princehall.org
• Page 40: The French Revolution
started
in 1789, not
1779. My
wife's period of expertise is the Age of Sail, the French
Revolution and the Napoleonic era, and she has worn bruises in her
backside kicking herself at missing this one, even if I didn't catch it.
• There are many references in the book to the Northern Masonic
Jurisdiction versus the Southern Masonic Jurisdiction of the Ancient
Accepted Scottish Rite. For reasons known only to themselves, our
southern brethren do not add the term "Masonic" to their moniker. They
are known only as the Southern Jurisdiction, and use the
abbreviation SJ, not SMJ as used in the book. As these references
appear all over the book, I am not changing them at this time. But I am
aware of it.
(I grew up a Catholic and in my house, SJ
always stood for
"Society of Jesus," the official name of the Jesuits. Hmmm.)
• I am
also
aware of the difference of opinion in the use of the term "compasses"
versus "compass." Indiana is, apparently, one of only a handful of
Masonic Jurisdictions that use the singular term "compass" in its
ritual to describe the tool used for measuring and drawing arcs and
circles. Like a pair of scissors or trousers, the proper grammatical
term is a pair
of compasses, or simply "compasses." I am a stubborn Indiana Mason and
will continue to use the term compass until my Grand Master orders me
otherwise. More to the point, the term is all over the book, and beyond
the scope of correcting until a major reprint is done.
• The artwork that appears on
the cover of Freemasons For Dummies
is the creation of a gifted Indiana
Freemason, Brother Stephen McKim. Unfortunately, due to an oversight on
my part, the proper credit for his art was inadvertently
left out
of the first printing of the book. Brother McKim is an incredibly
talented artist whose beautiful Masonic images have graced the Indiana
Freemason magazine, internet sites around the world, and more. For more
of
his creations, see his website by clicking
here.
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