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JB93

Registered User
I think you can use your signs in public.. thats how brothers help eachother in need... I helped a brother who was broke down on the side of the road because of his due guard
 

Bloke

Premium Member
Do you not ever exchange tokens with brothers outside the Lodge ?

"Token" actually appears in our ritual. When I first read the question, I was thinking "gifts" like S&Q pins, but then read on and thought it might be about proving Freemasons - you could read it either way and decided not to respond about gifts because that's not where the thread was going.... but gifts are back on the table.

I have a big pin collection - few have been purchased by me, many mailed to me by American Brothers.. but I always try to keep an Australian or Victorian S&Q or lapel badge in my case to give visitors... Melbourne Shriners went to CA a few years ago, they purchased or were given heaps of pins ad I got many as gifts. My most treasured one is a small S&Q from PA and a brother I used to talk to often via email and even phone. I sent him the MM pin I was presented in Open Lodge - the one I wear is his... I wear it more often than I do my apron... its treasured because of the friendship with this brother who I've never met and they way the common bond of Freemasonry brings men together.
 

mrpierce17

KOP Council director / Lodge instructor
Premium Member
"Token" actually appears in our ritual. When I first read the question, I was thinking "gifts" like S&Q pins, but then read on and thought it might be about proving Freemasons - you could read it either way and decided not to respond about gifts because that's not where the thread was going.... but gifts are back on the table.

I have a big pin collection - few have been purchased by me, many mailed to me by American Brothers.. but I always try to keep an Australian or Victorian S&Q or lapel badge in my case to give visitors... Melbourne Shriners went to CA a few years ago, they purchased or were given heaps of pins ad I got many as gifts. My most treasured one is a small S&Q from PA and a brother I used to talk to often via email and even phone. I sent him the MM pin I was presented in Open Lodge - the one I wear is his... I wear it more often than I do my apron... its treasured because of the friendship with this brother who I've never met and they way the common bond of Freemasonry brings men together.

I would love to exchange a MWUGLofFL lapel pin for one of yours it would be the firs one I received outside of my jurisdiction and also the first I ever gifted
 

Bloke

Premium Member
I was taught to give the "two-handed shake" when giving a token in public, blocking it from view.
"Cover your work" is a Scottish thing in my experience, we don't do it here which always seems weird to the Scots we examine. but it might be an "Ancients" thing and used in the States ?
 

Bloke

Premium Member
I would love to exchange a MWUGLofFL lapel pin for one of yours it would be the firs one I received outside of my jurisdiction and also the first I ever gifted
It's a slippery slope, because suddenly you're sending pins all over the place. There is some sort of extra cost sending mail into the States for scanning in a post 9/11 word... but I think that's for larger items... I actually owe a few people some mail... I will contact you privately on this...
 

Warrior1256

Site Benefactor
Well, being a brand new MM I returned the sign and we proceeded to talk about Masonry for a minute or two, nothing "secret". He was at his place of employment and was on the clock so we couldn't talk long. I understand now that maybe I was wrong to perform the penal sign (EA) outside of lodge.
 

JB93

Registered User
If we're going by our obligations on exchanging tokens and signs.. then we must follow the rules all the way through! Remember the cut and carve part?? That Mean we shouldn't be wearing paraphernalia in public..
 

Brother JC

Moderating Staff
Staff Member
If we're going by our obligations on exchanging tokens and signs.. then we must follow the rules all the way through! Remember the cut and carve part?? That Mean we shouldn't be wearing paraphernalia in public..

That part is about the written word, it says nothing of the symbols. If it did, every lodge, grand lodge, and temple would be in violation, what with a big S&C on the building, not to mention all those posters of the symbols of each degree inside.
 

Dontrell Stroman

Premium Member
Where does it say you can't use a penal sign in public ? I have yet to see it. I have looked though all my material and I can't find it.
 
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