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I was WM elect when I took my SR degrees. Staying at the blue lodge level for several years gave me a much better foundation. For that matter I was freshly installed WM my second time through the line when I joined the Shrine. So do I think one should be a PM before petitioning appendent...

That's exactly how I have ended up with multiple memberships. When I have stayed long enough to go through the line again I have added an additional life/endowed membership. When I live somewhere long enough to affiliate I do so. Should I end up living in a place that has single affiliation...

Re: Visitation Between Prince Hall and Regular Lod Notice that you used two different verbs. "Written" for the process of assembling words for an intended meaning. "Submitted" for the sequence of gathering the correct signatures, submitting through the GL legislation process, being ready to...

Re: Visitation Between Prince Hall and Regular Lod Waiting for leadership to move forward has resulted in frustration - That empowerment happened years ago and there has been no movement. They are in reactive mode and they accept that the ball is not in their court at the moment. Doing it...

I take it there is an annual book of Proceedings sent to every lodge and available for purchase by any member that has the complete text of everything covered at the annual communication including the full text of every committee report? I'll order one of those through my lodge secretary...

Re: Visitation Between Prince Hall and Regular Lod My take is that it shows that it is up to the membership not to the leadership. Waiting on the leadership has taken years without result. Now it is time to author, sign and submit legislation directly to bring the matter to vote on the floor...

http://www.freemason.com/lodge-locator/254-district-22 lists the lodges in that vicinity. It is US tradition to show up in person to present yourself for a visit. You will want to attempt contact on line or by phone first to make sure they will open on schedule but many lodges are very slow to...

Were I a member of one of the two of them I would take the votes last week as open invitations to put forward legislation to change the situation. if my signing any of their paperwork will help my pen is in my hand. I offer an alternate view of what happened - The grand line hammered them...

I really liked both of those Star Trek episodes, though! Chuckle.

While I disagree with the bit about the mis-information, which I found trivial to identify as insanity, I do agree that walking up to the door of an organization where you might not know anyone can be difficult. Yet another part of how we "make good men better". Step out in faith and knock on...

I wonder why this good idea keeps getting pushed? It has also been proposed in Illinois multiple years in a row and it keeps getting pushed there as well. When this one was read at my lodge it was dismissed as administrivia. Not so. It moves the responsibility for discipline through trials...

In Mississippi is the staircase lecture in the second degree delivered by the Senior Deacon as he walks along a display that shows the numbers 3, 5 and 7? Until I saw a Texas 2nd, all of the versions of the 2nd I had seen before were done like that. That's a "walking" 2nd degree lecture...

So that by your votes you can push for it to be otherwise. Those who don't attend never vote on anything. If you do feel strongly about a topic then submit legislation do not wait for the grand line to do it.

Members of both of our Texas jurisdictions have tried waiting for our grand lines to change the agreement to include visitation. It did not work. Sure enough this report says that it has continued to not work. Members of MWPHGLofTX went through the legislation process to force a trigger on...

The Traditional Observance movement happens within regular and recognized jurisdictions who are accurately described as mainstream. Thus the only place you will ever find a TO lodge is in a mainstream lodge. As to jurisdictions allowing or forbidding it, as long as the process is completed...

Re: Visitation Between Prince Hall and Regular Lod Members of both our our Texas jurisdictions have been waiting for our grand lines to move forward on the topic. In both cases we have not seen progress. That is not the only way to approach the issue. There is the direct legislation...

Re: Visitation Between Prince Hall and Regular Lod GLofTX has its annual communication this week. I say the Fraternal Relations Committee can and should put forward on the floor to accept the offer.

I can answer for my jurisdictions and I know the pattern is common throughout the US. I don't know the rules of your jurisdiction. Please check with your lodge secretary and also as W Br Mike pointed out to your own proposer.

Our obligations are about the parts that are secret. The S&C are visible to the public at the front of almost every lodge hall in the country are are therefore not secret. You'd need to have a tattoo that shows (something else that we have to be face to face to demonstrate). Having an S&C...

Practice in public speaking is one item on the long list of reasons I petitioned and volunteered to go through the line immediately after I was raised. Everything I have read about public speaking is that literally everyone is nervous about it when they start but that it gets easier with...