Was Brother Samuel Clemens’ Santa a Freemason? Or Some Illuminati Moon‑Lodge Schemer?
In this season of warmth and wonder, we pause to consider one of literature’s most curious holiday missives: a letter from Santa Claus penned not by the North Pole’s jolliest resident, but by Brother Samuel Clemens himself. Was Mark Twain’s St. Nick merely spinning whimsy for his daughter, or veiling a bit of Masonic mischief between the moonbeams? In true Twain fashion, humor and hidden meaning intermingle as neatly as eggnog and nutmeg, offering us a mirror of the Craft itself: playful in form, profound in purpose, and always reaching toward the Light; even if by chimney.
Brother Mark Twain’s, A Letter from Santa Clause
There is a special kind of light that glows in a child’s heart on Christmas morning, the same light that Freemasonry seeks to kindle in men through wisdom, virtue, and love of neighbor. Brother Mark Twain, ever the storyteller of truth wrapped in wit, captured that spirit in his “Palace of St. Nicholas in the Moon.” In his fanciful letter from Santa Claus to young Susie Clemens, we find not only warmth and humor but a moral parable worthy of a Lodge lecture. It reminds us that the truest gifts; kindness, patience, and charity; are not wrapped in ribbons but carried quietly in the heart of every good Mason.