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goomba

Neo-Antient
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What are your favorite degrees/bodies in the various orders of Freemasonry?

Mine are:

The EA (lodge) degree, Royal Arch (chapter), and Zelator (SRICF). The EA is the introduction to the fraternity. I think you could study this degree for life and hardly scratch the surface. The EA degree and Zelator seem like cousins who are as close as brothers.

The Royal Arch is the "capstone" of the story you started as an EA. Deep down I just felt joy when going through the ritual that I can't really explain.

As a Christian Freemason Zelator was the most moving of all the degrees I've had. It had a different feel than the Order of the Temple in the Commandery, which is also a powerful order/degree. The elements of the degree reminded me so much of the EA degree but from a Christian outlook.
 

KSigMason

Traveling Templar
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I agree with the ones you listed, but I'd also say the Order of the Red Cross of Constantine.
 

CLewey44

Registered User
EA without question, but I'll let you know how a couple more went in a few months, including one you mentioned. :) EA degree I was so excited and I remember sitting in that adjacent room thinking about my father and grandfathers doing the exact same thing back in Alabama. Very exciting. Going back and looking for more grains in that first degree is always fun. Tons of good stuff right there.
 

goomba

Neo-Antient
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EA without question, but I'll let you know how a couple more went in a few months, including one you mentioned. :) EA degree I was so excited and I remember sitting in that adjacent room thinking about my father and grandfathers doing the exact same thing back in Alabama. Very exciting. Going back and looking for more grains in that first degree is always fun. Tons of good stuff right there.

I was made a Mason in Alabama. A brother in my lodge (in Maryland) is from New York and we talk often. The NY and AL work is very similar.
 

Companion Joe

Premium Member
Mark Master and Knight of York are my two favorite.
I like Mark Master because of the lessons it teachers, and Knight of York is personal to me because I teach that period of English history.
 

goomba

Neo-Antient
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Mark Master and Knight of York are my two favorite.
I like Mark Master because of the lessons it teachers, and Knight of York is personal to me because I teach that period of English history.

Knight of York is that YRSCNA?
 

goomba

Neo-Antient
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Yeah, I like the College as well as anything.


As someone who moves on a fairly regular basis I'm starting to appreciate the national bodies. The ritual is the same across the US. The blue lodge have the differences it a bit difficult. In my head I know my new grand lodge ritual but when I start talking my mother jurisdiction comes out. I have not idea how to stop it.
 

Carl_in_NH

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Fellow Craft is my favorite Blue Lodge degree. Much of my appreciation for this degree is from the perspective of an officer - Senior Deacon, specifically. The flow of the story in the ritual is likely the best in all our degree work from a logical perspective (IMO). What I learned about the craft and myself while studying to present this part of the degree still makes an impression on me to this day.
 

Tpower31

Premium Member
My favorite degree so far was the Master Mason's degree. It was such a humbling and moving experience. But when I actually got to observe another brother taking the exact same degree a couple of months later. I grew to understand the degree and appreciate it much more. While it is appreciated and you have some understanding when you take your degree I feel you don't truly get to understand what it is you are doing until you observe it as another brother goes through it. Then the understanding is much greater. We have a brother in our lodge who explains the tracing boards for each degree and I find the explanations of the tracing boards so interesting and the MM degree tracing board is my favorite


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