Konstantine Kabilafkas will be delivering a lecture at our September meeting on the history of King Solomon’s Temple.  The temple was the prophetic vision revealed to Abraham and Moses.  King David would arrange for the planning and finance of the temple, which would then be constructed by his son Solomon.

Destroyed in 586 B.C., the temple was then rebuilt by Zerubbabel in 515 B.C., and then fully refurbished by King Herrod.

The temple would fall into desolation and be destroyed after the renouncement of Jesus of Nazareth.

Join Konstantine as he explores one of the most central symbols of Freemasonry.

This lecture will be held at Sunset Masonic Temple in Santa Monica on Friday, September 12th at 7:30 PM.  It is open to members of Solvitur Ambulando and invited guests.  Please contact us for more information.

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Our August meeting was a field trip to the Griffith Observatory in Griffith Park. The Observatory was the vision of Griffith J. Griffith, who made a bequest to begin work on his vision for a public observatory in 1919. Thanks to the help of many civic leaders, Griffith’s vision became a reality. With construction completed, the Observatory was dedicated on May 14, 1935 and would receive over 70 million visitors, making it the most successful public observatory in the world.

As early as 1978, public and private officials recognized that the Observatory’s future would depend on a concerted effort to restore the existing building and expand it to improve the experience for the vast audiences who visited each year. Guided by a 1990 Master Plan, the City of Los Angeles and non-profit Friends Of The Observatory crafted a unique public-private partnership to renew the Observatory for generations to come. The building closed to the public on January 6, 2002, to begin this work. A world-class team of architects, exhibit designers, astronomy experts, construction workers, exhibit fabricators, instrument and equipment builders, and many others worked carefully and expertly for four years to return Griffith Observatory to the people of Los Angeles and beyond.

The members of Solvitur Ambulando visited the many exhibits in the observatory and were much entertained by the guides, who left all of us with a sense of humbleness and awe. A few of us even got to see the observatory’s tesla coil in action, invoking various references to mad scientists.

The hi-lite of our trip was the show put on in the Samuel Oschin Planetarium, which traced the night sky through the eyes of primitive man, and then travels through the models of the universe created by Ptolemy, Galileo and Hubble. The show then presents us with the big bang, and reminds us that, as with all the planets in the heavens, we are all made of star-dust.

The day completed with a nice meal at Wolfgang Puck’s “Cafe at the End of the Universe”, and the chance to catch the spectacular view of the sun setting over Los Angeles.

This successful field trip was much enjoyed by our members, and promises to be only the first of many future outings for members of Solvitur Ambulando.

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This is a very inspiring lecture entitled “Freemasonry and the Fabric of America”

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