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Items that are written out in the Monitor are not secret and can thus be shared/quoted with the public. That should be standard for every jurisdiction. What is secret and what is not does vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. The most common but not the only stance is the UGLE one described...

So it is. The Texas move of the staircase lecture from the SD advancing along the north to the WM standing in the east is one of those neat ritual details from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Interesting that a walking lecture would end up happening in a different degree if the lodge so chooses...

http://www.nullens.org/an-outsiders-view-of-freemasonry/part-c-legends-and-theories-of-the-craft/c-3-3-the-hutchinsonian-theory Is that the one you mean? It says he didn't have many followers. I'll go ahead and join his non-followers myself.

There a Resolution this year to allow the staircase lecture be delivered walking the way it's experienced by candidates in all the other jurisdictions I've seen second degrees. It's still to be delivered by the WM instead of the SD but degree team pro tem replacements are common in all degree...

We don't accept crazy guys. We make ourselves crazy after taking our degrees. Chortle. My craziness was going through the progressive line twice. Once the superglue on your seat has lasted two passes through the line, you will have ended up crazier than me. See it as an extreme...

Before I petitioned I read the per capita membership data for New Hampshire going back to before the Revolution. I saw a century long sine wave up and down. I saw my petition was near the bottom of the current cycle. I concluded that I would see many brothers who have never seen anything but...

I've read the resolutions posted by Bro Bill. That's a resolution I strongly favor. Responsibility for trials should never had been moved out of the lodge in the first place. I would have thought that a landmark even though it's not in any of the written lists I've seen. GL should be able to...

Yet they are fine for business, management and some other programs. In my field of IT, not so much as they are in science. It is hard to leave the nest of the brick and mortar without losing the foundation, but it is possible. U of Phoenix is not the only counter-example. What matters is...

The claim is that Masonry is experiential. You have to experience it to understand it. The claim is consistent with calling Masonry an initiatory mystery school. Whether we are an initiatory mystery school or not depends on the individual candidate not on the initiatory mystery aspects that...

You could join a female only or mixed lodge. As such orders are clandestine that would cost you your OES membership. It would be a tough choice to make if such a group were local. The nearest such group is not in commuting distance. Probably not the way to go.

Even that isn't consistent. The ritual is a little bit different in every jurisdiction and the details of the differences are all over the map. They don't much correlate to the different initials. That they sprang from the Antients and Moderns would have made more sense but we can find...

A Texas specific answer - The lectures and degrees in Texas are abbreviated compared to the other ritual versions I have learned. particularly in Texas the long form should be presented on occasion just so the brethren know there's more to it than the short form. As the difference is...

As a candidate, by the time we reached the lectures I was past the point I could retain anything more. I remember the brothers delivering my lectures but none of the content of the lectures from those 3 evenings. I remember the lectures from degrees since then so it doesn't seem to matter...

Why they decided to become a Mason. If they understand the time requirements. If the wife understands the time requirements and is on board. A reiteration of the questions on the form with any explanations on what they mean in the very broadest sense. Generally the sequence outlined in one...

The topics are in the degrees whether any one Mason shuns them or not. But in most lodges you have to bring your interest and your study yourself. It's said that "You get out of Masonry what you put into Masonry" and this is one of the more extreme examples of the principle. if you come...

For me it was the MM proficiency. Not only is it longer in California it's also optional unless you are elected to office. So I was in the middle of memorizing the JW work for all degrees and the WM work in the first degree when I suddenly jumped back to the proficiency. Oops ...

The grand-daddy of non-resident colleges serving the military is University of Maryland. In the last decade the most popular one has become Excelsior of the State University of New York www.excelsior.edu (my alma mater). I actually did all of my coursework residential not correspondence. What...

Re: Will SJR Scottish Rite members be Clandestine In most states with real recognition including visitation the statement of recognition between AASR jurisdictions was a matter of formal completeness. No effect of any sort is to be expected. I have seen a reunion where all 3 AASR...

The Welland canal revolutionized shipping in the Great Lakes. I grew up bicycle distance from Niagara Falls on the US side.

My mother lodge is a large one. There are groups that become close doing events together over time. The line is only one of those groups. It works fine and is able to maintain a building so magnificent it gets used in movies, on TV, for weddings and other large events. The building turns a...