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My Texas lodge voted in 2013 against moving to 1000 as their local number.

Re: Dual/plural memberships. Should Masons be able Yes. Answer not limited to Texas. Membership by affiliation is full membership every jurisdiction I've ever heard of.

At my mother lodge some brothers have long since purchased a life/endowed membership while others request their dues be remitted. There was a vote decades ago to not adjust the dues based on age and to not stop dues for 50 year members. It was decided that reducing the dues by age before...

Re: Dual/plural memberships. Should Masons be able I take it you don't mean sitting a chair pro-tem. I've done that on my first visit to some lodges. Once even to my first visit to any lodge in that jurisdiction (They liked the slightly different wording of the SW work when I recited it...

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http://www.ugle.org.uk/about/districts-groups Asia tab, HONG KONG & THE FAR EAST sub-tab. http://www.zetlandhall.com/ "Currently there are 29 Blue or Craft Lodges that meet here under the auspices of the Grand Lodges of England, Ireland, and Scotland, as well as ..."

Twenty years ago when I was raised they handed me my dues bill as a part of the usual presentations after a raising. My response was "This is per month, right?" The dues situation has been low for a long enough time even the elderly guys laughed at my expectations. For all I know it was that...

So far I have learned two rituals on the topic and followed the ballot process in a third. In California we once voted on 3 candidates together (standard practice there). There was a cube. Maybe someone did not like balloting together. The ritual in California only allows the ballot to be...

There is a "vote" to receive a petition into the lodge records. It should happen the stated meeting after you submit the form. Submit the form the day after a stated meeting and that's a month later. Submit the form the day before a stated meeting and that's a day later. The investigation...

Re: Crossing the Extraordinary Boundary Between Re Some level of discipline. Attending a clandestine lodge is a big no-no so joining one I would expect to see an expulsion. If I were stuck in the JW chair the year such a case came to light I would ask the brother to demit rather than face...

It is a landmark that the secrecy of the ballot is sacrosanct. Our votes can not be discussed and none may ask how we vote. When it happens that a petitioner gets rejected those who know why are forbidden from saying and those who don't know why are forbidden from discussing. So why is a...

The wrong sign issue is something that will solve itself with patience and practice. The change TO stated in the MM degree was temporary, but a version of temporary longer than any of us have been alive. The change BACK TO stated in the EA is not temporary, and we can afford for the effects...

Lombard 1098 has been selling out 50 tickets for several years in a row now. They do it as a catered event rather than outside. The anti-smokers smile and wink at each other when it's discussed in stated meetings, but a number of non-smokers attend. Holding an assortment of events is common...

Victory Lodge presents the Lamar Award to the recipients of its annual Lamar Scholarship gifts. When I saw the presentation I didn't know the two could be awarded separately. So giving a Lamar Award to a teacher would be very similar to giving a Community Build award to a public servant with...

Every state has exactly one regular PHA jurisdiction (some are hosted out of an adjacent state so the list is shorter than 51). They recognize each other all around. Here's a map showing states with and without recognition. http://bessel.org/masrec/phamap.htm Generally when a state votes...

Rhetorical question - How much of this is the changed affiliation requirement and how much is young ladies petitioning in droves for the same reason many lodges now see young men petitioning in droves? If petitioners weren't being turned away before it's unlikely the requirement change is the...

There's also the fact that in science theories advance as they are improved, but they can still be known by the name of their founder or a scientist who brought major revisions. Classical physics stages go Aristotle, Galileo, Newton, Einstein. Using the expression "Darwinian evolution" does...

My Shrine has a club for brothers 40 and under. It sounds something like "Show-bahn" club. Great idea.

In other words there is an authorized cipher but it comes with exacting restrictions. I do find it odd that it is called a code book in Texas where that word has a completely different meaning in so many other jurisdictions. Just another one of those differences jurisdiction to jurisdiction...

My translation of the Tao Te Ching says something like - The evolved man accomplishes much but does not appear to put much effort into achieving those accomplishments. When I read that I envisioned Archimedes "Give me a lever long enough and a firm place to stance and I will move the Earth". I...