One response I keep hearing: Whenever I ask someone "how do you start a new lodge?", I always get "Why do you want to start a new lodge? We already have enough lodges in Virginia".
How many brothers have started lodges within the last 1-5 years on here? Can you expound on the experience, and or difficulties in doing so?
Starting a new lodge with like mind brothers might be far easier than changing a old one. The T.O. Lodge we hope to start, will give what I hope I have been missing and what I thought Freemasonry was about, I will still be a member in my Mother Lodge because it will also give me the things that a T.O. Lodge is not set up for.Starting a lodge because of being dissatisfied with your current lodge is definitely not the answer. Use your vote. Make the change that way if leadership is the problem. I read so much that I often times find myself bringing information to the lodge versus taking something away, it just depends.
I am VERY interested in the TO lodge phenomenon. I read that there TO lodges in the USA and Canada. I find the whole concept fascinating! The chamber of reflection, and the esoteric ideals. I wager that if someone tried the concept in Kentucky, the GL would shoot it down. "We never had one before".
I will still be a member in my Mother Lodge because it will also give me the things that a T.O. Lodge is not set up for.