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The brother who obligated me on my first degree is an LA County Sheriff deputy. He wore his De Molay ring while one duty.

That's a partial specification for a lodge so you'd need more of its parts. And it's not a particularly good abbreviation because it leaves out important parts (name of lodge and name of grand lodge) in favor of an unimportant part (the initials are decorative not meaningful in general)...

The list of presentations differs by lodge, degree team and brothers in attendance as well. My mother lodge gives an engraved trowel on raising. In Texas I've seen that by a Sons of Hiram degree team from the Shrine. I've seen Scottish Rite degree teams include an SR petition on raising. One...

On the one hand clandestine groups tend to charge high fees to join. On the other hand we tend to complain that over the decades the degree fees we charge have fallen to the range of a year's dues per degree and are thus too low. If you think this does not make sense, you do in fact understand...

Re: What kind of Lodge Education Programs do you l I'll see if I have more written down than that outline.

Re: What kind of Lodge Education Programs do you l Who - My favorite talks are the ones done by brothers other than myself! I always have a few in the can ready to go so I present regularly. Kind - My favorite type of talk is one that features some sort of material other than speech. A slide...

I will point out that SR switched to classes a century ago. They went though all of the discussion that happens now around blue lodge classes. SR classes WORK. That said I deliberately chose the longest reunion of the year when I petitioned the SR. Our mandatory view degrees were spread over...

Bro Nagy makes a distinction between Freemasonry and Masonry. The former the goals and actions of the organization the later the goals and actions of the individual. The meeting point is the lodge level - Lodges teach masonry to individual brother and support the financial structure that...

Low Earth Orbit! So astronauts Apollo 9 or before, Skylab and after. Not Bro Buzz. He went much further. Law Enforcement Officer? Never mind ...

Re: I received my EA degree date, time and locatio It's called an Initiation and traditionally candidates went in cold not knowing what would happen. One of many reasons for this is putting ourselves into the hands of friends and trusting that they will take care of us as their sponsors took...

If you mean the S&C I nearly always see it with both points of the compasses above the square, not just in the American jurisdictions I have traveled through but in photographs around the world. That's the most common public symbol of Masonry that I know of. It is often small enough or blurred...

The third degree is a recent addition sometime in the early 1700s. Some versions of ritual retain memory of that time like the expression brothers and fellows that appears in some versions not in other versions. Maybe. As the ring image you posted shows one of them and I've seen the points...

Virgin Islands Brother, "This too shall pass". We're Masons for life. These brothers are in the east for a year each. Lodges do wax and wane - My mother lodge has seen two cycles of that since I was raised 20 years ago. You're definitely going to still be around during the next cycle. The...

My inference is this rule allows EAs and FCs to keep their membership private if they chose so it's up to them if they let the world know they are Masons. As such to me it's only indirectly related to wearing a symbol they have earned, if they chose to, if they can find an EA or FC symbol at...

Exactly. I have no interest in apologizing to those who accuse us of stuff. But I also have no interest in feeding them lines. I'm proud of some of the accusations - We deal with good men of every faith. Our rites draw concepts from many faiths. Our symbols have meanings that can be...

Going to GL a week after being raised. Excellent! Go to the events but a lot of the best stuff is brothers from around the state sitting around over coffee or beer telling about what worked and what didn't in their year.

Welcome again to the family thrice adopted brother.

I do not know the exact mechanics of invitations in the German and Czech speaking regions.

There's a youth order named after him. It is likely that some of their chapters held events. Youth orders must have at least one Master Mason adult adviser present to be able to meet. Thus it is likely that some individual Freemasons did something special. He's mentioned in some Scottish...

It's not an appropriate way to look at it. It pushes us towards being a religion. Because he's insane. I figure working hard at understanding insanity risks becoming infected with it myself, so I don't really want to know more.