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http://www.grandlodge.gr/ The recognized and regular Grand Lodge of Greece. I'm almost completely illiterate in Greek so I can't tell if they have a "Contact Us" page or a description of how to start the process. Some jurisdictions you can start by showing up before a meeting and introduce...

I like that it's a rare treat. At lodge we're all in the tiled space together so we don't need it. Extending the hand of brotherly love makes the difference between in person and on line but unless we're checking out a first time visitor the difference is tiny. Outside of lodge I figure the...

She does need to know what you are getting involved with and approve. So generally it is preferred that your wife be there. Maybe required maybe not, but definitely perfered.

I recall reading about a very great teacher who made up stories to teach truths. His stories get called parables.

I did hear that once in my travels. I chuckled. If you think about the story at that point you probably will also. Guards stationed at waterfalls to question people who across a river at a waterfall? That's a mistake made by a ritualist who didn't have a dictionary and did parrot-only...

When I presented my MM proficiency I received a wallet size certificate signed by the major officers of the lodge. I still have it tucked into my SR passport. There was also an optional presentation size version that I ordered from GL. Both listed the name of my own GL. Maybe, just maybe...

We know enough about Roman culture to say this about the builders of the aqueducts and so on. Asserting this about ancient Egypt is much more problematic. Consider the Inca empire - Local farmers were required to labor for the empire during their off seasons and then return to their farms...

http://www.mwphglotx.org/about/affiliated-lodges/ WICHITA FALLSWICHITAKEY WEST257(940) 781-0925 http://grandlodgeoftexas.org/lodgelocator At the moment it's not returning a search for "Witchita" county. It works most days.

Exactly. The locals might not even know it's a local tradition not a rule. Like the temporary (only 170 years!) switch to opening stated meetings in the third in the US, I feel this is a tradition that should be allowed to fade into history.

Some traditions are meant to be reversed. With a new generation coming in that tends to be more serious about their expectations I suggest it's time to start changing this tradition by just doing it. Go for it!

Rich folks can afford to be eccentric. Poor folks are stuck with being crazy. Masonry has a rich tradition so we can afford to call our strangest side orders eccentric instead of crazy. The distinction is semantic only but it does sound a lot better. To sit in the east for one year a brother...

Several moments come to mind and it's hard to rate one over another - Entering the building a Mister and leaving the building a Brother on the night I was initiated. A bigger deal to me than my Raising. The first time I put on a hat, opened a lodge, initiated a Mister and shook his hand as a...

There exist religions that expect exclusivity. Any member of one of them is likely to be insistent that Masonry is not a religion. The jurisdictions that are oldest and/or largest exist in regions where such religions are in the majority. Whence our rhetoric that we aren't a religion. A...

Further detail about California - All installed officers must be MM, appointed or elected. Protem officers must be at least the degree described in the lecture. Other protem officers are only encouraged to be MM. They can be of the degree being performed protem for that meeting only. (We're...

That's probably a tradition not a rule. Some jurisdictions have rules about personal aprons (Texas specifies size and restricts design) so it's possible yours says to not wear your presentation apron. Possible but not likely. Far more likely is it's a tradition that got out of hand and folks...

Love the Frank Frazzetta picture as your icon, Conan The Barbarian before the Arnold movie was made. ;^)

There's a fine crystal company with a name like that as well. When I heard the word in the degree I was like "Who talks that way any more even a couple hundred years ago?" Vocabulary building is one of the many subtle pieces of the puzzle of how Masonry makes good men better. It's a good name...

The tradition depends on the jurisdiction or even on the lodge. The presentation talk says it's ours to wear, but a lot of lodges have a local tradition that a brother wears that apron for his first three degrees and then for his final degree into the afterlife not wearing it in between. These...

Welcome again to the family thrice adopted brother.

It's a shallow spot in a river where you can wade across without a bridge. The river is the water; fording is the act of wading across. Not specific to Masonry.