The Sons of Labor Lodge (Hijos del Trabajo) is a working-class, left-wing Masonic lodge in Barracas, Buenos Aires, near Plaza España. In 1966 it is the base of the Operativo Cóndor Argentines and keeps the Blue Stone.
| Type | Faction (Masonic lodge) |
| Leader | Malnati (1966) |
| Spanish entry | Logia Hijos del Trabajo |
Description
It is the class opposite of the anticommunist, foreign-sponsored lodges of the esoteric right in 1966 Buenos Aires, such as the Anael, hidden beneath the nearby Basilica of the Sacred Heart. The building has a library, an Egyptian frontispiece crowned by a protective uraeus serpent over the entrance, and silver candelabra collected since about 1880.
History
In the 1920s or 1930s the lodge was presided over by David Cherney, a European master who tied it to a sect of the blind, a hidden book and a vanished girl. The premises were then the brotherhood’s Center for Esoteric Studies (1922); that thread is the gesta (campaign-cycle) Cthulhu Buenos Aires, prelude to the southern one. In 1966 the newcomers from the descent find this older root in the lodge’s papers.
In 1966 Malnati leads the lodge, funds the Operativo Cóndor Argentines after their return from the South Atlantic and makes the temple their base. The stone they brought from the islands is kept there in an oily tarp; it holds an anomalous temperature and hums constantly. It is the Zirconium or Blue Stone coveted by the Esoteric Order of Dagon, the device that Order prepares to wake Cthulhu.
The night of the roof
One night something tried to enter through the roof, and something else was heard seizing it outside. In the morning the roof bore black, tarry slime, scratches, a lingering stench and no feathers. The blood was type B positive, prompting the bitter joke that it was not “Basque RH-negative blood”. The brotherhood holds that the triangles and symbols carved on the roof protected the building, like the uraeus. The slime links to the creatures of the north, things of the Mythos that now prowl the lodge.