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Actually, there are three Commandery orders. The first one, the Illustrious Order of the Red Cross, is not Christian in character. It deals with the embassy of Zerubbabel to the Court of Darius in Persia, to ask for assistance in rebuilding the Temple. The Order of Malta, and the Order of the...

I thought Hot Sands were banned

If you are doing multiple candidates in one night, Texas allows you to give the lecture to them all at once.

Re: Will SJR Scottish Rite members be Clandestine As I understand it, previously when a GL extended recognition to its PH counterpart, the SGIG in that state did similarly, but had to be approved by the Supreme Council. This action just approves in advance the actions of SGIGs in their...

Now that I've had a chance to read the text of the GM recommendation on Table Lodges, I would say the thrust is more to establish a uniform Texas table lodge ritual than to stop the practice altogether. It also appears that someone pointed out the 1991 action to the Grand Master before the...

I'm not sure what is meant by "demitted without privileges". In the GLoT, it is ok for demitted masons to participate in funerals, or sit in lodge. The fundraising business, however, sounds like grounds for a lawsuit.

Just to add information here, there was a law making it illegal to wear a military award like the Medal of Honor if you hadn't received it legitimately. That law was found unconstitutional.

If you read the proceedings of 1991, it was available from the GS office back then. Who knows now? I remember it being pretty close to the one promoted by the MSA, except it included a toast to Sam Houston. Bill, we do still have three table lodges a year...and in February we have a ladies...

I managed to track that down a little more accurately. It was the 1991 report of the Committee on Membership Maintenance, chaired by Powell. He gave John Henderson credit for the research on Table Lodge resources they were providing to Lodges. I knew Bro. Henderson was mixed up in there...

It's worth noting that lodges in Texas didn't just start doing table lodges out of the blue. It started with a report at Grand Lodge by the Committee on Membership Maintenance. I can't put my finger on the year, but it was the mid-nineties, and the committee chair was John Henderson of San...

Re: Fraternal Relations Committee (Grand Lodge of Your lodge secretary should have a current directory of the members of all GL committees.

Never saw a PDF. There is an inexpensive paperback available from Kessinger Publishing. Please if you do turn up a PDF, let us know.

Brother Blake, I've read a number of your posts where you seem to think that if a Grand Lodge officer doesn't take time to personally correspond with you, it's part of a conspiracy of silence. Grand Masters report at great length to their Grand Lodges every year on their actions and decisions...

Yes. It was brought up two sessions ago. The brethren were informed that the MWPHGLoT had asked for a conversation on intervisitation. The Grand Master ordered the Committee on Fraternal Relations to meet with representatives of the PHGL to work it out and report back at the next grand lodge...

...and if my lodge doesn't have a spare room besides the preparation room?

Are they proposing that the candidate be taken into a CoR, given a ceremony there, then taken to the Preparation Room for the Senior Deacon's charge? Sounds clumsy.

I haven't seen anybody post exactly what procedure and wording they want to use in the CoR, which I think would be required for the idea to be considered. And then you would have to explain why that is better than our current ceremony in the preparation room.

There was a period...sometime mid twentiety century I think, when music in degrees was not allowed, under the theory that we wanted everybody to be doing things exactly the same, and some lodges couldn't arrange to have music. There was an paper about that presented to the TLR, once again I...

How was this staged?

The Grand Master disagrees with you. And if you pause and consider what you said, if it's not "ritual", then what is it?