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Masonry is a journey of self-reflection and introspective. This is lesson for you as well as him. You can only go the length of your cable tow. You cannot knowingly vouch for a person that you would not vote for to receive membership. I think your lesson in this is to respect the light that you...
Hopefully the gang reference is hyperbole.Sometimes people get excited to be a member of a group. Human beings are "pack animals", that said, when we find a pack that has colors, ritual, and pageantry some forget the purpose and the principle. They forget the obligation. It happens. But I am all...
I am not sure if your original question or concern was addressed, but let me assure you that PHA is no joke. We absolutely have signs, steps, due guard, grips, and all the other rights of passage that accompany Masonry. I so not know where you are from or where you met the brother you met, but...
Brother...you have the right and even he obligation to "tenderly remind" your brothers when they are wrong. Either way, if you are unable or unwilling to affect change, then do not give up he craft. Is seeking another lodge an option?
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Brothers...many of our family's subscribe to some form of of religion. They have unknowingly learned to fear and inaccurately judge what they do not understand. I have been termed "a member of a secret cult." I have been many things in the mind of family and friends since becoming a MM. The...
One of my mentors in the lodge told me that, "brothers are men before they are brothers, so they bring to the lodge what they were before they got there." The same could be said for the type of believers that are being discussed here. I grew up in church. We typically went four or five days a...
People are people where ever you go. My mentor told me that brothers are men before they become Freemasons. That said...sometimes we bring our "stuff" to the lodge with us. Masonry is about building a particular type of man, and that man would not throw away the craft because there are brothers...
I was raised in 1993. There was a brother that was raised the year before who was indeed Muslim. There were a few words substituted specifically for him. There was a Quran brought in for him. The lodge took great effort to include him, though there were some PMs that disagreed with the...