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My wife says I'm not to go through the line again. This creates an additional evolution of status I'm waiting for. Chuckle. In the meantime I'm gradually learning my third version of ritual. Save the Grand Lodges. Collect the whole set! Uhm, I mean ... Welcome to California F&AM!

Yesterday evening Victory 1160 GLofTX AF&AM voted favorably on my petition for affiliation by statement of good standing. In two weeks there are first degrees and I will submit my check for 2014 dues plus 2013 prorated. I'm not sure what paperwork remains but it is now all over but the...

The answer depends on your geography. In the US that is the best plan of action. Start showing up every month about an hour before the monthly meeting to have time to get to know as many of the members as possible during the process. As to whether it's allowed to contact a candidate - It's...

There is a female-only lodge that meets in Los Angeles. When I searched for others I found several. If I found them all it appears that in all of the US there are enough to form about two districts.

Thus it is appropriate to say that any recommendation on Table Lodge is an effort to ban them. So far I haven't found any scheduled Table Lodge in the last year. The only ones I've found were back in Chicago - one that I've attended annually for years and one by one of my lodges that hosts one...

Nice. Good skill on your journey then.

It's interesting but inevitable that discussion turned towards religions. While religions do indulge in the esoteric, the esoteric is independent of not just any one religion in specific but from all of the. This is a lesson that is slow to learn by some, never to learn by others, staunchly...

In the US that is the best method. Masonry is in person so in person works best. Show up about an hour before the time listed. Introduce yourself and ask on how to become a mason. Start showing up every month at that time. Except to be there a few months before the brothers know you well...

Yet that's exactly what a Table Lodge is. A tiled meeting that is a dinner with toasts. Above I posted the Maine version. Here's a link showing the Illinois version. http://bobdill.tripod.com/Table_Lodge.PDF If dinners you have been to were not tiled, then they were not Table Lodge events...

Re: Freemasonry and Religion You don't list your geography and the process is different across the globe. In the US find a local lodge. Their meeting schedule will be on the door. Start showing up about an hour before the time listed. Introduce yourself and ask how to become a Mason...

Bro Lowcarbjc is listed as being in South Africa. Stated meetings in the first degree seems to be the world wide standard only violated in parts of North America.

Time is symbolic as well as literal. The words used at the opening and closing as symbolic of the progression of time and of the meeting being treated as a unit the way a day is treated as a unit. All sorts of time symbolism is to be found in all three degrees once you've been through them all...

The word "sacrifice" means "to make sacred or holy". "sacri-" for sacred/holy, "-fice" for to make. Pray. Done. That's it. Seriously. That said, what are the chances you posted this as a troll post? Nearly 100%.

Please come out of the closet. Please don't give the knife and fork folks the false idea that they are alone in Masonry. Please make "occult" mean "in a tiled meeting". In the long run meaning is what is desired by the young generation. That includes historical, philosophical, mystical, you...

I have a PDF copy of the Illinois Table Lodge Ritual book that I will send if asked in PM. In Illinois the rules specify juice not alcohol for toasts. For immediate access here is the Maine one. They allow wine but do not has specific points for talks -...

1) We each only get to be candidate once per degree. Far and away my favorite but I have already done them my one time each in the orders I'm a member. 2) Among the officer chairs my favorite is SD because he's the one who walks candidates around during their degrees. There are quiet times...

"The Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Texas recently held the Grand Master’s Table Lodge on an open air rooftop overlooking a view of downtown Dallas, Texas. The event was hosted by Metropolitan Lodge No. 146, Wor. Jerome D. Lacy presiding.The Table Lodge is a tyled Entered...

Re: Turning in my petition for the Houston Shriner If offered a faster initiation I suggest you ask to wait until the next big reunion. The big events are very memorable. I figure I'm probably going to be a Shriner for the rest of my life (if Shrinedom separates from Masonry we'll see) so I'm...

Is there a version of this for each jurisdiction? As long as one can start at the UGLE list and move from there it's going to be accurate enough in the case of very many jurisdictions one version can work for all of them. The book I saw in GLofTX sure looked identical to the one I've seen in...

One of my lodges prints the minutes. WM - "Have all the brethren interested read the printed minutes? Are there any errors or corrections? If there be no objection I will order the minutes accepted as printed." Whack. One more lengthy agenda item reduced to under a minute. One of my lodges...