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Dual Lodge Membership

Bloke

Premium Member
There's no way I'm ever going to demit from a lodge where I've been through the line.

Yep, I hear you brother ! Thank goodness it is only two lodges and I am not in other orders... as a PM I feel a special responsibility to support the lodge and its members... giving back what it gave me...
 

Warrior1256

Site Benefactor
You just might get tarred & feathered if you tried that here. Masters (and prospective Masters) need to keep foremost in their minds that they hold their positions in order to serve the Craft, not order them around. Much better to find out what the members desire and provide it.
Very true!
it rarely, if ever, takes more than a couple of minutes to get through them unless discussion is desired, such as in the case of unfinished business.
Exactly. As I said, we don't go into detail, just a brief summary.
 

Warrior1256

Site Benefactor
Double meetings. Double rehearsal. Two sets of PMs to learn from. Two sets of leadership teams to observe.... two sets of friends - being in two lodges has been great for me.... and I think I've been able to make great contributions in both.
Great answer brother!
There's no way I'm ever going to demit from a lodge where I've been through the line.
Sounds like you've never even visited within your own state. Every lodge is different and every jurisdiction is different.
Two more great answers.
 

acjohnson53

Registered User
I have visited several Lodges, did Degree work as well, some were different some were the same..Traveled outside my Jurisdiction some different some the same..I don't judge, I just go with the flow..
 

CLewey44

Registered User
This doesn't pertain to me, but it is just a question I am asking out of curiosity. Is there a purpose for dual lodge membership? I guess what I am trying to ask is, what would be some of the reasons a brother joins multiple lodges.

I haven't read most of the other responses to your question, but I joined my father's lodge as my "second" lodge to basically help it out. It is an old lodge and its membership is dwindling. Also, I'm the 4th generation of Leweys to be a member of that lodge. So really it's just for personal/nostalgic reasons. I don't know how long, however, I'll continue to do that since I've never even visited the lodge. Also, around here we have what's call a Traditional Observance Lodge that I've considered joining. The reason for that is simply having a different experience altogether in lodge. I know I could just visit and that'd be completely legal but I couldn't vote or be an officer in that lodge or really participate by bringing anything I felt I could bring to the table.
 

babyjo

Premium Member
I am a plural Lodge member. I was made a Mason in New Jersey. I now live in New York. I would never think to demit from my Mother Lodge as they are responsible for Raising me. It is for this reason that I am a plural (dual ) member. I use the term 'plural' because I know many Brothers who affiliate with more than two Lodges. Especially with those who Travel to other states for work or to visit family. My daughter lives in Illinois. I have considered affiliating with a Lodge near her, in addition to the two Lodges to which I already belong. In order to joint he Royal Arch Chapter here in NY, I had to be a member of a New York Lodge. That is another reason for plural membership. This happens to retirees a lot. They will stay current at their Mother Lodge, but perhaps they moved elsewhere when they retired. There is a member of my Lodge with whom I have Traveled to Cuba. He is a permanent member of the Lodge down there, because he visits so frequently.
 

dfreybur

Premium Member
Also, I'm the 4th generation of Leweys to be a member of that lodge. So really it's just for personal/nostalgic reasons.

Spell and/or pronounce your name slightly difference and man are you ever. Lewis - A Mason whose father is a Mason, ideally his father raised him in his third degree.
 

Bloke

Premium Member
Spell and/or pronounce your name slightly difference and man are you ever. Lewis - A Mason whose father is a Mason, ideally his father raised him in his third degree.


Here, a Lewis is a son or nephew of a Freemason who's been initiated.
 

dfreybur

Premium Member
The lewis was a tool of operative Masonry to lift carved stones to their final locations in the buildings.

Lewis is the speculative term for a Mason whose father is also a Mason. The more generations back the more levels. Illinois has a nice Lewis badge that can be extended for any number of generations of names.

It's symbolic. Ideally the father is there at the raising to whisper the word or at least to physically participate in the physical lifting part. Notice that the generations work in the opposite order operative to speculative. Maybe it used to refer more to attendance at Masonic funerals than at raisings.

I figure it also has some allusion to the position of hands and limbs during the raising.
 
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