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Where Have All The Masons Gone?

goomba

Neo-Antient
Site Benefactor
I've come to adopt a belief that Freemasonry isn't dying, it's refining. What we are currently seeing is the result of an illness. However, instead of treating the infection most grand lodges and lodge are treating the symptoms and not the illness.

https://www.amazon.com/Millennial-Apprentices-Next-Revolution-Freemasonry/dp/0996652809

The two links above are a good jump off point for looking into the illness.

Additionally, I believe to many lodges and GL's act as if they are an island. Yes culture is different in California and Alabama and England and Brazil. But looking outside of your lodge or dare I say outside of the lodge/grand lodge system just might have some valuable information. But from what I've seen the number one resource not used by the lodge are its members. If you have a 21 year old EA ask him questions. As a matter of fact maybe ask members who have joined in the last 5 years questions. We have the answers to our questions.

Lastly these three papers are priceless:
http://pictoumasons.org/library/Smith, Dwight L ~ WhitherAreWeTraveling [pdf].pdf
http://overseaslodge.com/images/PDFs/9_Why_This_Confusion.pdf
http://www.knightsofthenorth.com/documents/laudablepursuit.pdf
 

Dontrell Stroman

Premium Member
one of my goals, yeah...
I noticed you are a member of a PHA GL as well as me. I am speaking from the brothers I have come into contact with in my jusdriction that hold the "title" 33. One thing to note and im not sure if your jusdriction is the same, but I was always told the 33° was something you earned and not purchased, but lately I have seen brothers after 3 or 4 years becoming a 33°. I finally asked one guy how he became one so fast and he said by paying money. Correct me brothers, is this a degree you earn for your service to Freemasonry or is it a degree you just pay in the thousands for just to say you are a 33° ?

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dfreybur

Premium Member
I noticed you are a member of a PHA GL as well as me. I am speaking from the brothers I have come into contact with in my jusdriction that hold the "title" 33. One thing to note and im not sure if your jusdriction is the same, but I was always told the 33° was something you earned and not purchased, but lately I have seen brothers after 3 or 4 years becoming a 33°. I finally asked one guy how he became one so fast and he said by paying money. Correct me brothers, is this a degree you earn for your service to Freemasonry or is it a degree you just pay in the thousands for just to say you are a 33° ?

If you paid money to get to 33, that was definitely a clandestine order and a spurious degree.

The most eminent Mason I ever met said you get a white hat by working for 20 years in the kitchen or walking on the Moon. He said he'd earned his working 20 years in the kitchen. Yet he was by then a Past Grand Master in California so respected the Mason of the Year award from GLofCA is now named after him.
 
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