“Washington, D.C., Masons Honor Kahlil Gibran, ‘Seeker of Silences'”

From the July/August 2025 edition of The Scottish Rite Journal.  Any accompanying photographs or citations for this article can be found in the corresponding print edition.


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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to the Scottish Right Journal podcast and audio presentation
of the Scottish Right Journal, brought to you by the
Supreme Council of the Scottish Right Southern Jurisdiction Mother Supreme
Council of the World. This week's article is Washington, d C.
Mason's Honor Khalil Gibron, Seeker of Silences by Brother sharbl

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t fahed PhD thirty third degree and comes from the
July August twenty twenty five issue of the Scottish Right Journal.
A seeker of silence, as am I? And what treasure
have I found in silences? That I may dispense with confidence?
Thus wrote introspectively Khalil Gibron, the renowned Lebanese American poet, writer,

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philosopher and artists in his most famous work The Prophet.
In April twenty twenty five, members of Al Shark Lodge
Number twenty twenty held a ceremony at a memorial to
Gibron on Massachusetts Avenue Northwest in Washington, d C. These
brothers gathered to m f Gibron's mystical philosophy one in
harmony with at which Masonry promotes in its esoteric rituals.

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Born on January sixth, eighteen eighty three, in Bashiri, Lebanon, Khalil,
Gibron emigrated to the United States with his family at
a young age, beginning his literary and artistic career in Boston.
Widely Acclaimed for its beauty, symbolism, and accessible presentation of
Eastern philosophy, Gibron's work consistently explored themes of spirituality, love,

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and the human condition. In addition to The Prophet, a
collection of poison prose essays that follow the Seeker's journey
in esoteric philosophy, Gibron also wrote Broken Wings, a novel
that explores the themes of love, loss, and spiritual growth,
as well as published Twenty Drawings, a collection of Gibron's artwork,
showcasing his skills as both painter and draftsman. It is

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not known whether Gibron was a Mason, yet his exquisite
manner of thinking leads one to speculate that he might
have been. He was, at the very least a mason
without an apron. In the Seeker of Silences chapter from
The Prophet, the opening to which was quoted at the
start of this article, Gibron speaks glowingly of the operative mason,
and clearly in the symbolic, if not speculative terms. Then

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a mason came forth and said, speak to us of houses,
Build of your own imaginings, a bower in the wilderness.
Ere you build a house within the city walls. For
even as you have homecomings in your twilight, so has
the wanderer in you, the ever distant and alone. Your
house is your larger body. It grows in the sun
and sleeps in the stillness of the night. And it

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is not dreamless. Does not your house dream and dreaming
leave the city for grove or hilltop? Would that I
could gather your houses into my hand, and like a
sower scatter them in forest and meadow. These are truly
words on which Masons may meditate and reflect. Khalil Gibron
passed away on ap Pril tenth, nineteen thirty one, at

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the age of forty eight, but his legacy lives on,
and his works are worthy of study by Freemasons and
others today who seek the ineffable silence and wisdom of
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Any accompanying photographs or citations for this article can be
found in the corresponding print edition. The Scottish Right Journal
is published by the Supreme Council of the Scottish Right
Southern Jurisdiction Mother Supreme Council of the World. Mark Dreysenstock,
thirty third degree Managing Editor. I'm your host, Matt Bauers