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Masonic birth certificate ?
Walking the Tyler sword?
Don't feel like the Lone Ranger cause I have never heard of walking the Tyler sword. Not sure about masonic birth certificate either unless it is your master mason certificate.
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Masonic birth certificate ?
Walking the Tyler sword?
I'm an older brother. I've never heard of this. I've attended in a whole bunch of jurisdictions. I've not seen it in PHA COL.Walking the Tyler Sworf is used to gain entry to a Lodge, and You are correct Bro MRichard. Ask some of them Older Brothers about Walking the Tyler Sword I'm pretty sure they will explain...
I'm an older brother. I've never heard of this. I've attended in a whole bunch of jurisdictions. I've not seen it in PHA COL.
Good question- I have no idea.Hmm. I wonder if other GLs have this rule
That applies to visiting Brethren belonging to GLoTX Lodges (and PHA Texas Brethren who have jumped through the hoops of petitioning for visitation) and is @ the WM's option. All others are to be examined.In the Grand Lodge of Texas, your dues card and id is all you should need to visit although I had to be vouched for once after I was raised.
Not sure what this means. Other than the exceptions I stated in an earlier post, under GLoTX visiting Brethren are to stand an examination to gain entry.IWalking the Tyler sword is the proper way to enter a Lodge as a visitor.
I understand you can supposedly find this information online, but why post it. Just like any and everything is online these days, why make it easy for cowans. Posting this is just as bad as posting our ritual online, regardless if you copy and paste it from Google or write it out of your own monitor.- Walking the Tyler’s Sword -
The prelude to the Tyler’s Oath (commonly known as "walking" said sword”). The brother will retire four paces from the point of the sword. He will advance by
three regular steps, giving the step, due guard and sign of the degrees in their natural sequence (EA, FC, MM). Then advance another step with the left foot, pick up the sword with the left hand, the right hand along shaft support in a said word and place near the heart and repeat the following:
I (state your name) do hereby and hereon solemnly and sincerely swear, that I have been regularly initiated, passed, and raised to the sublime degree of a Master Mason, in a regularly constituted lodge of such; that I am not now under suspension or expulsion, and know of no just reason why I should not hold Masonic intercourse with my brethren. SO HELP ME GOD.
google it.....
If a brother has never heard of it then it would behoove that brother to visit a lodge that still does this ceremony.Brother's never heard of it, it's on the Internet.......
Did I commit a Faux Pas????
It is still in practice my brothers.Not sure but I had already posted a link which described it. So if you did, others had before you. I don't think it is really in practice anymore anyway. I would edit out the Tyler's Oath though even though it too is on the internet. This is that gray area.