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I noticed that. Technically, reading the answers on the petition would be introducing sectarian religion into lodge discussion and thus a landmark violation. It's on the petition form and thus technically allowed. If I were a member of that jurisdiction I would consider getting signatures for...

Re: Dual/plural memberships. Should Masons be able Snowbird status - The most recent time I was to Illinois GL (2012) our GM held snowbird membership in Alabama and asked the Alabama GM (his GM in that sense) to be a keynote speaker. As Illinois has cross attended with PHA for many years and...

Re: Dual/plural memberships. Should Masons be able MWPHGLofTX has "affiliate" membership similar to that. I hold "honorary" membership in Lombard 1190 GLofIL similar to that. In GLofTX there is a "life" membership that works similar to that. Variations on a theme. All three of my...

Like the US and all other republics, Masonry is not of the direct subspecies of democracies. We are one of the republic subspecies of democracies. Or maybe more than one of those types. The US is a federated republic and a hybrid form of that. A republic whose members are both citizens and...

When I went through the Scottish Rite degrees several of the early numbered ones featured events that I had learned in the third degree at blue lodge. I had previously heard of "Scottish Rite jurisdictions" versus "York Rite jurisdictions". Seeing those SR degrees made it clear in my mind...

I find it strange that when Manly P Hall became a brother he did so in San Francisco and he does not mention affiliating locally once he was in Los Angeles.

For a lodge to be valid it has to be regular. For a lodge to be recognized there are some more steps. A brother should always be a member of at least one lodge affiliated with a regular and recognized jurisdiction. A lodge not affiliated with a grand lodge is automatically bogus. Being a...

That's on the wall in one of my lodges. Ask every new petitioner what they want. There are lodges will full degree calendars. Ask them what they do and how they went about achieving it. Gather the data and act on the data. Young brothers want a wide variety of stuff. Some come for the...

A lodge in my district does this twice per year. They split the cash lodge and seller. Works great.

One episode. I prefer the X Men comics and movies that seem to have inspired the series (indirectly enough that no copyright infringement claims appeared in the news). Nice fiction but not how evolution works. Was there some sort of outside intervention in Heroes? Outside intervention of...

Tyson did a spinoff from Nova and he ruled on that science show. Thanks for the pointer.

I figure clandestine lodges use one of the published ritual books for their basis, maybe doing the usual small changes we see jurisdiction to jurisdiction. What they learn should end up nearly identical to what we learn. If I recited my California proficiencies to you they would not be the...

In two (maybe three) of my jurisdictions it's technically allowed to perform a degree at one of the break points of a stated meeting. Because of the length of any degree ceremony it's a rare occurrence. On a couple of occasions I've participated in a first degree done with as much business as...

Unless the committee on ritual teaches a specific ritual for healing there is no form shorter than retaking his degrees. Learning a second set of proficiencies should be similar to learning a second ritual. He already knows he can do it and how to do it, but relearning isn't as easy as...

Opening in the EA degree for stated meetings is and always has been the world wide standard. Unless there is a reason to diverge from the world wide standard, that world wide standard should be adhered to. This is not quite the same thing as necessary. There's nothing earth shattering in a...

Re: Can a Jewish Brother Wear a Yamaka in a Lodge Companion Joe, So far I've only seen that style hat at PHA lodges. It's good to see it sees use across jurisdictional boundaries.

By the grace of God and two decades of time and effort on my part - I am now able to demit from any lodge I am a member of if I ever see a rejected ballot or a negative recommendation that I believe to be because of religious membership. On the one hand I've never seen it happen. On the other...

The lodges I've seen so far with stone members have been in cemeteries. Travelocity time! ;^)

Re: Can a Jewish Brother Wear a Yamaka in a Lodge Crown? Cool. Most eastern chairs I've seen have been too deep for me to lean back in at all so that's never been an issue for me. Maybe tall brothers with long legs can. I figure the requirement for a full brim helps keep sitting WMs from...

Checking if this is a typo for "ideals". The statement can work either way but the meanings are different. I had to read the top line of the thread showing it under youth groups for that question to answer itself. Not being one of the youth groups my lodges advocate it must be much popular...