hanzosbm
Premium Member
I view TO lodges less as THE solution and more as A solution.
I have visited a EC lodge here locally and may decide to affiliate with them if they'll have me. Why? Because it is the type of Freemasonry I was originally looking for. Let me repeat that, it is the type of Freemasonry I was looking for. The idea of a TO lodge is the answer for me. That being said, it's not what everyone is looking for, and, just because a lodge calls itself TO or EC doesn't mean it fully practices what preaches.
I understand the feeling of some brothers who call the TO and EC lodges elitist. Not that I think they are, but they have purposely gone out of their way to do things differently than most mainstream lodges here in the US. That will naturally lead to a feeling of 'are-we-not-good-enough-for-you'. And while I would never dream of trying to speak for someone else, for me personally, it's not that other lodges aren't good enough, it's just that the TO and EC lodges are more what I was originally looking for. To each their own.
I have visited a EC lodge here locally and may decide to affiliate with them if they'll have me. Why? Because it is the type of Freemasonry I was originally looking for. Let me repeat that, it is the type of Freemasonry I was looking for. The idea of a TO lodge is the answer for me. That being said, it's not what everyone is looking for, and, just because a lodge calls itself TO or EC doesn't mean it fully practices what preaches.
I understand the feeling of some brothers who call the TO and EC lodges elitist. Not that I think they are, but they have purposely gone out of their way to do things differently than most mainstream lodges here in the US. That will naturally lead to a feeling of 'are-we-not-good-enough-for-you'. And while I would never dream of trying to speak for someone else, for me personally, it's not that other lodges aren't good enough, it's just that the TO and EC lodges are more what I was originally looking for. To each their own.