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The Grand Lodge of China is confined to Taiwan, and there are numerous English, Irish and Scottish Constitution lodges in Hong Kong and Macau. No lodges are operating "above the table" in mainland China, however. (I've been to these places and know many lodges there.) Freemason Connect Mobile

Bro. Hoff, can you elaborate on what you mean by blocking/stepping through? Is it like a walking lecture, or splitting the lecture into more easily memorized chunks that can be handled by multiple people?

Great essay. Was this actually written by MWBro. Carnes, or was it just reposted by him?

I really don't like seeing the corruption of the tripunctial mark into TWO dots as a colon (e.g., R:W: DDGM). That seems to smack of ignorance and/or laziness. Also, I wish we in GLoT followed the example of our brethren elsewhere around the world who use honorifics such as "[Very | Right |...

You must've been beat hard!

It's a damn shame this is happening. As an international Masonic traveler, I would assert that my visits to GLNF lodges in Asia are bar-none the most fulfilling lodge experiences I have ever had. Back in January this year, our GLNF brethren in Asia seemed unconcerned about the Stifani mess and...

Further thought: this law is worded very poorly.

Oops... I misread the law. Here's my take on it now, illustrated by example: Year - Life Membership Awarded? 2000 - Awarded 2001 - Awarded 2002 - Can't Award (2 awards in a 3-year window have already been made) ... Thanks for the clarification Bro. Bill!

It sounds like a Lodge may issue at least one life membership each year, and a possible second (in one year) on a triennial schedule.

Brethren, Under Grand Lodge of Texas law, is it appropriate to award a Life Membership to each Master of a lodge upon completing his term? I seem to recall reading that Life Membership was intended for truly exceptional service and was not intended to become something commonplace (this may...

In 2008-2009, I spent 6 months traveling through East Asia to study Freemasonry on the opposite side of the world. I went everywhere that Freemasonry is regularly organized and made around 70 visits to a variety of Masonic bodies. The most interesting thing about our fraternity on that side...

I'm visiting an English Constitution Chapter Rose-Croix tonight in Hong Kong. Not quite the same as an AASR symbolic lodge, but the English, too, did not follow the Americans in making the Rite more of a theatre-style performance. They accept Christians only, and they perfect one candidate...

Does anyone else find it annoying when the term "Grand West" is used to denote all the members (past masters and constituent lodges) of a grand lodge? When I saw all the grand lodge business discussions here saying that the "Grand West" had made such and such decision regarding many of the...

Nothing but their aprons!

I'll be there on Saturday only. I'm meeting a petitioner in Allen on Friday night for his first interview as part of the investigation. Should be fun :)

I am not sure of the internal Grand Lodge mechanisms that were involved in Louisiana, but essentially, the lodges practicing the Scottish Rite were grandfathered in, and all newly chartered lodges work the Preston-Webb symbolic degrees. Each lodge in New Orleans originally had its own version...

Brother, I'm afraid that is a quite ignorant statement. I dare you to make that claim to any Brother under the United Grand Lodge of England or many of its descendants throughout the world. For them, the emblem of our Fraternity is the Square and Compasses and rarely includes a G!