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While legal systems need to declare ages for various legal status situations, Masonry does not need to do that. To me dotage is about mental acuity. I've met men in their 30s I didn't think could handle the content of the degrees and men at 100 who have a lot to teach about the content of the...

Anderson's Constitutions are written out in full and published as such. They may just as easily used a written ritual as a cyphered one. If they were alive today? Whatever the local rule their jurisdictions have today.

By the way, the dog in the movie Up is named Doug. Being a bit ADHD myself I SO MUCH identified with that other Doug. That's what our world is like except for having a tail. I also suggest that dotage is about the mental not the physical. I've been at degrees where the candidate needed...

So far I have life/endowed memberships in two of my three jurisdictions. When I have been in the same jurisdiction long enough I purchase one as a way to keep contributing to my lodge(s) there after I have died. A well designed and administered program should cover the member's dues while he...

Do they still make almond M&Ms? Those ruled.

On Saturday I attended a first degree where the candidate brought his own Bagavat Gita to be obligated upon. The obligation was delivered by the district instructor who knows his ritual very well.

I don't recall anything like this in Masonry. This sounds like an issue outside of Masonry. What I notice is logs are cylinders not spheres. They roll in one dimension not the other. The direction they do roll is what I tend to consider sideways. The reason lumber places use rivers, sluices...

A coin is used in one of the degrees in one of my jurisdictions. It doesn't happen the same way in my other jurisdictions. For jurisdictions that use a coin it can be called that.

Usually the word is "lewis" - a crane used to lift and place stones. Will you be in Alabama long enough to petition? http://www.mwphglofal.org/index.html Read the pages under the Membership tab.

The frankincense tree is not doing well in its native habitat. Listed as "Near Threatened". I wonder if it would grow in the more arid regions of western Texas. Might be nice to try to grow one from root stock of cuttings by folks who have ranches. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boswellia_sacra

This is why we say these degrees are earned. A brother can't advance in the blue lodge to the next degree until his proficiency is complete, plus in states where the MM proficiency is mandatory he can't join any appendent body until his third degree proficiency is complete. For these other...

There are European jurisdictions that are invitational. I don't know how far back their traditions go to answer the question - Which of these two traditions is older?

Neither do I but like Dave Ramsey often says "You don't have to get it, you just have to get it". He means you don't have to understand what your wife wants you just have to do what she wants or acquire what she wants. In our case it means we don't have to understand our GL rules we just have...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Droit_Humain http://www.comasonic.org/lodges_and_bodies.php Maybe the nearest is St Louis. http://womenfreemasonsusa.com/lodges.html Which is closer than the nearest women's only in DC. http://grandlodgeoftexas.org/content/order-eastern-star Those of us who...

Let's not jump to the conclusion that all scientists are open minded about their own field, either. Check out Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" and read the history of several of the revolutions he reports on. For the larger scientific revolutions the generation of...

Thanks for the suggestion Bro Byron. With a few changes my file now reads - Whereas the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Texas has been recognized for several years by the Grand Lodge of Texas, the United Grand Lodge of England and many other regular and recognized jurisdictions, and...

Step brother Reuben, Your profile lists your grand lodge and lodge as - Hiram Abiff Grand Lodge A.F&A.M., Scottish Temple Lodge #15 You don't list which state but that isn't going to matter in this case to figure out if your jurisdiction is regular. Having "Hiram Abiff" in the jurisdiction's...

Re: Pleiades Lodge #478 Masonic Education Symposiu Same here. I noticed "4:p.m. - Festive Board with Keynote Speaker: R.W.B. Mir Omar Ali". One of my lodges is Lombard 1098. One of Bro Omar's lodges is Lombard 1098. I have experienced lectures, talks, education and festive board...

I learned trestle board as the monthly newsletter and as the Holy Bible. In one case the plan of action at lodge for the month. In the other case the plan of action everywhere for life. In both cases we work based on the designs on the trestle board. I learned tracing board as the crowded...

Would the brethren like to work together to submit legislation in December to modify the recognition compact? Our leadership is reactive on this topic so the time has come to work proactively from the grass roots up. Since recognition is the topic it should cover all PHA jurisdictions - It...