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I much prefer that setup.
Here in Australia, there's only the Sovereign Chapters Rose Croix. You get conferred the 4th-17th degree, exit, then come in when it's all be set up and go through the 18th.
You then wait a minimum of 3 years before you can go up. You get conferred the 19th-29th degree...
Hello Bretheren,
Just seen heaps of posts here where people refer to what I assume are SR lodges as Valleys. Would I be correct in assuming that?
I am an 18th degree In the Scottish Rite but under the Supreme Council for Australia (Australian Constitution.) We refer...
In the ceremony of Raising, I believe one of the charges states "(in regard to the badge of a MM).. It calls upon you to afford assistance and instruction to your bretheren in the inferior degrees."
A MM who has been in the Craft for a day, can not offer assistance to an EA FC who has been in...
This has been an interesting read. Im from Australia and we do it differently down here. We don't have 1 day courses.
We are initiated and can't be raised to the third until a minimum of 12 months from the initiation. The lodge can apply for a dispensation from Grand Lodge to raise a candidate...
So it took you 3 months to become a Master Mason?
Here in Australia, it takes a minimum of 12 months from initiation to the third degree. I assumed it was the same world wide! But I learnt something new!
Thank you everyone :) Already in the past year and a bit Freemasonry has made me into a better man. I dont doubt for a second that later on in life, it will make me into an even better man
After one year and 3 months, i have been raised to the 3rd degree! What an amazing ritual!! That's all i'll say, it was deep and the temple had such a different feeling!
I want to say thanks to all brethern on here as even though i havent posted much at all, i read a lot of posts and gained...
Hi im Daniel. Initiated in November 2010 at Brae Dale 936. I was the first initiate at the lodge since it was consecrated 4 months before. I was Passed to the 2nd in May 2011 and will be raised in Feb 2012.
Hello Brethern!
My name is Daniel, i was initiated in november 2010, last year, at Brae Dale 936 which meets at the Belgrave MC in Victoria, Australia. I was passed to the second in May. I will be raised in Febuary 2012. I was the first candidate to be initiated at Brae Dale as it is an...