SWARMI VIVEKANANDA- FREEMASON SHILL
“G.C. Connor, Grand Master of Tennessee Masons, was introduced to Vivekananda-logically, by Rabbi Samfield. Somewhere in the course of conversation, Rabbi Samfield must have discovered that the swami was also a Freemason, like himself. Connor was in town for a convention at the Masonic Temple...
On Monday Connor invited the swami to tour the Masonic Temple on the northeast corner of Madison Avenue and Second Street. There, I assume, he examined the swami in the English Work for a Master Mason. Connor then wrote a letter of introduction on official letterhead to the Masons in Chicago.
Connor mentions in his letter that he had lived in Calcutta for a while and wished for the swami to be received in America as graciously as he had been received in India. A final article appeared in the Appeal-Avalanche on Monday of the previously mentioned conversation Vivekananda had with a group of people Sunday afternoon, passing the time before his evening lecture.”
https://vivekanandaabroad.blogspot.com/2019/02/?m=1
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Vivekananda’s journey
How a young Indian monk's travels around the world inspired modern yoga.
https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/Wk9TyyQAACUAPB3_
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In the book "Reminiscences of Swami Vivekananda: (New & Enlarged edition)
“By his Eastern and Western Admires wrote "Another time I was at a lecture of his in the Masonic Temple in Chicago… (Mrs. S.K. Blodgett, From a letter dated September 2, 1902, to Josephine MacLeod.)
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The announcement in the Chicago Inter Ocean 4 November 1893 read:
"Swami Vivekananda…gave a parlor lecture Friday afternoons in Hall 309, Masonic Temple. His subject was "The Divinity of Man." The lecture was a brilliant one and elicited repeated applause from the select and cultured audience.
Subject for Tuesday, "Hindoo Philosophy, Embracing Monism and Reincarnation"; for Friday, "Love from the Abstract to the Concrete."
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As per SwamiVivekananda in the West a Cronology: "Swami Vivekananda, attracted so much attention at the Parliament of Religions, and after that gave a series of lecture in, Masonic Temple Chicago. This chronology is showing Swami Vivekananda associated with Freemason in America in the year 1893-94…
1/ November, 7, 1893 Chicago IL Aft: Parlor lecture at Masonic Temple, Hall 309, 55 State St, Chicago,IL HINDU PHILOSOPHY (VB)
2/ November 10, 1893, Chicago, IL Aft: Parlor lecture at Masonic Temple, Hall 309, 55 State St, Chicago, IL HINDU PHILOSOPHY (VB)
3/ January,22, 1894,En route On train Received a letter of introduction to Freemasons of Chicago and left Memphis for Chicago Letter given by G.C. Connor, Grand Master of Tennessee
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"Vivekananda Abroad A Postcard Pilgrimage", The author is a member of the Vedanta Society of Kansas City, wrote with the title-" A Brother Mason from the East.”
The Masonic (Freemason) Temple Building stood at the northeast corner of State and Randolph Streets in Chicago… completed in 1892, It was 22 stories tall and except for the clock tower on the Board of Trade, it was the tallest building in the city, a veritable skyscraper. It was in this building that Swami Vivekananda gave a series of lectures a month after the Parliament of Religions... It was demolished in 1939. When Vivekananda lectured at the Masonic Temple Building it was brand new and would have been a fashionable place to meet...”
“G.C. Connor, Grand Master of Tennessee Masons, was introduced to Vivekananda-logically, by Rabbi Samfield. Somewhere in the course of conversation, Rabbi Samfield must have discovered that the swami was also a Freemason, like himself. Connor was in town for a convention at the Masonic Temple...
On Monday Connor invited the swami to tour the Masonic Temple on the northeast corner of Madison Avenue and Second Street. There, I assume, he examined the swami in the English Work for a Master Mason. Connor then wrote a letter of introduction on official letterhead to the Masons in Chicago.
Connor mentions in his letter that he had lived in Calcutta for a while and wished for the swami to be received in America as graciously as he had been received in India. A final article appeared in the Appeal-Avalanche on Monday of the previously mentioned conversation Vivekananda had with a group of people Sunday afternoon, passing the time before his evening lecture.”
https://vivekanandaabroad.blogspot.com/2019/02/?m=1
______________________
Vivekananda’s journey
How a young Indian monk's travels around the world inspired modern yoga.
https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/Wk9TyyQAACUAPB3_
______________________
In the book "Reminiscences of Swami Vivekananda: (New & Enlarged edition)
“By his Eastern and Western Admires wrote "Another time I was at a lecture of his in the Masonic Temple in Chicago… (Mrs. S.K. Blodgett, From a letter dated September 2, 1902, to Josephine MacLeod.)
______________________
The announcement in the Chicago Inter Ocean 4 November 1893 read:
"Swami Vivekananda…gave a parlor lecture Friday afternoons in Hall 309, Masonic Temple. His subject was "The Divinity of Man." The lecture was a brilliant one and elicited repeated applause from the select and cultured audience.
Subject for Tuesday, "Hindoo Philosophy, Embracing Monism and Reincarnation"; for Friday, "Love from the Abstract to the Concrete."
______________________
As per SwamiVivekananda in the West a Cronology: "Swami Vivekananda, attracted so much attention at the Parliament of Religions, and after that gave a series of lecture in, Masonic Temple Chicago. This chronology is showing Swami Vivekananda associated with Freemason in America in the year 1893-94…
1/ November, 7, 1893 Chicago IL Aft: Parlor lecture at Masonic Temple, Hall 309, 55 State St, Chicago,IL HINDU PHILOSOPHY (VB)
2/ November 10, 1893, Chicago, IL Aft: Parlor lecture at Masonic Temple, Hall 309, 55 State St, Chicago, IL HINDU PHILOSOPHY (VB)
3/ January,22, 1894,En route On train Received a letter of introduction to Freemasons of Chicago and left Memphis for Chicago Letter given by G.C. Connor, Grand Master of Tennessee
______________________
"Vivekananda Abroad A Postcard Pilgrimage", The author is a member of the Vedanta Society of Kansas City, wrote with the title-" A Brother Mason from the East.”
The Masonic (Freemason) Temple Building stood at the northeast corner of State and Randolph Streets in Chicago… completed in 1892, It was 22 stories tall and except for the clock tower on the Board of Trade, it was the tallest building in the city, a veritable skyscraper. It was in this building that Swami Vivekananda gave a series of lectures a month after the Parliament of Religions... It was demolished in 1939. When Vivekananda lectured at the Masonic Temple Building it was brand new and would have been a fashionable place to meet...”
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