Lodges
Freemason gatherings are held at private
lodges – some of which are considered Grand Lodges.
A Grand Lodge requires three private Lodges for it's inception.
For the Masons, it is a symbol of the world –
the Mason world within the world. (Claudy, 1949)
It protects those in the Brotherhood - in both a metaphorical and
literal sense.
The members of a Lodge are like family - and protect and punish
each other in the same fashion. (Short, 1989)
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In Twin Peaks, much of the story arch
centres around the search for the White and Black
Lodges.
They are ephemeral, and spiritually at odds with one another.
There is also a third Lodge - The Red Room, the setting for Agent
Coopers dreams/premonitions. (Episode Two)
The setting for the metaphorical collision of these three Lodges
occurs at The Great Northern Hotel.
The Great, or Grand, Northern Hotel is then a product
of the these private Lodges – the Black, White and Red.
In the end, the viewer comes to see that The Black and White
Lodges are really one in the same, and that
The Red Room is a sort of waiting room for them both - just one
example of a story arc in Twin
Peaks which shows the dualism between light and dark, good and
evil. (Lynch, 2002)
Here is a piece of dialogue from episode eleven of the second
season - "The White Lodge is a place where
the spirits that rule man and nature here reside. There is also a
legend of a place called The Black Lodge:
the shadow self of The White Lodge, a place of dark forces that
pull on this world. A world of nightmares..."
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