Speedbird13
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Good points about the time they put in
I think a brother loses out when the blue lodge degrees are received hastily. That being said, I'd respect a brother who went this path. I just feel like he's missing out...
Other Grand Lodge may not have these requirements (UGLE, where I am also a PM, does not). Therefore, their worshipful masters are not really worshipful masters because they haven't met my GL standards, even though they have met the standards of their Grand Lodge. Their worshipful masters did not earn the right to be called worshipful master. They have missed out on the experience. They have not put the time in. They have not learned everything.
I am also a Royal Arch Mason.I think a more accurate analogy based on what you said would be having the same requirements to be Worshipful Master, but instead of making them be met in reality, they were "symbolically met" by reading or ceremony and then they are all set to be WM (and achieved after the fact)
The length of the marathon and the accomplishment at the end do not change, just that some ran and others rode in a car.
Reminds me of the "virtual past master" degree here in order to "symbolically" be a PM in order to take the Royal Arch degree. I guess you could call me a hypocrite because I am a royal arch mason, but not a past master as was the requirement in the olden days. But it does make me curious if down the road 100 years, there will be no degrees or process at all, one is simply "made" a master mason and those of the day will look back in the minutes about our degrees being conferee over the course of time with only a passing interest..
I think a more accurate analogy based on what you said would be having the same requirements to be Worshipful Master, but instead of making them be met in reality, they were "symbolically met" by reading or ceremony and then they are all set to be WM (and achieved after the fact)
The length of the marathon and the accomplishment at the end do not change, just that some ran and others rode in a car.
Reminds me of the "virtual past master" degree here in order to "symbolically" be a PM in order to take the Royal Arch degree. I guess you could call me a hypocrite because I am a royal arch mason, but not a past master as was the requirement in the olden days. But it does make me curious if down the road 100 years, there will be no degrees or process at all, one is simply "made" a master mason and those of the day will look back in the minutes about our degrees being conferee over the course of time with only a passing interest..
Welcome to the forum brother.I thank you all for the enlightenment shared here and I look forward to my journey however it began.
I know this is necro posting ...Can anyone help ?