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I've been working on a presentation on this topic... Here's another vignette from 150 years ago this weekend... The battle of South Mountain was a delaying action fought by the Confederates to hold off McClellan's pursuing army while Robert E. Lee set up his defenses behind a little creek just...

All three of the Dan Brown books have exactly the same plot... only the scenery and names of the supporting characters change. Still, I thought "Lost Symbol" was an entertaining book... and save for the formulaic pscychopathic murderer, it put the Craft in a fair light. Will have to see if...

>>>I am being raised this upcoming Saturday and while I have decided to wait a while before giving York Rite or Scottish Rite a shot I am still curious as to the differences? Why do some go one route over the other? I know ultimately it is ones preference but I am curious about why others chose...

I completed my Royal Arch degree this past Saturday at the Arkansas River Valley festival in Russellville, AR, and for good measure, received the cryptic council degrees while I was up there. The Royal Arch degree was inspiring... it's hard to go through that without hearing the "Indiana...

I traveled to at least 4 other lodges to watch EA degrees after I had received mine, and about the same as a Fellowcraft. My mentors in my lodge thought it was important to see the wide world of masonry beyond our lodge doors, and it's an excellent way to learn your lectures by seeing the...

One of the first steps is to take a look in the phone book, and see which lodges are in your area. As a new member, you'll be spending a lot of time making friends with the other brothers in the lodge, as well as learning the lectures for your degrees. Convenience is an important factor, if...

Re: The Grand Priory of the Reformed and Rectified Rite of the United States of Ameri I got one of the old 1850s drill manuals and worked with it a good bit for the past several years so I could do a passable job representing a Civil War infantry officer, but I doubt the Commandery will let me...

What I call "Lodge casual..." Many of us are coming from work to the meeting, so it's office clothes, or a clean pair of jeans or khakis, and a shirt. One brother was pushing me to buy a tux, but I have no (foreseen) intentions of getting into OES, Rainbow, or the Grnd Line.

The Royal Arch and cryptic degrees are firmly rooted in the Old Testament, so I have experienced no problem so far with anyone who meets the basic faith requirements to be a blue-lodge Mason in progressing to these degrees.

Congratulations!! I should be getting my Royal Arch, and possibly the cryptic degrees that same morning up here in Russellville...

The Grand Lodge of Arkansas still communicates only via the Pony Express... web site was taken down two years ago after a fuss about e-mail. There are about a dozen lodges in the Little Rock area under the Grand Lodge, depending on which neighborhood you live in, i can get you connected with...

Articles 273 and 274 of the GLoTX constitution prescribe the types of aprons that may be worn in Texas lodges... Plain white lambskin or cloth aprons for all brothers; if the Lodge provides them, officers may wear aprons with blue edge trim with the jewel of the particular office embroidered on...

I tried that eHarmony thing a couple of years ago... a total rip... and if you're into freaky wimmenz, well, these things have more than ther fair share of them ;-)

Yep... Looking through the Texas GL digest last night, I saw that the Texas petition is completely different from the 1-page form we use here. My apologies! Tom

We recently passed a fellow who had taken 28 years between his EA and coming back to work on his FC. Arkansas has no time limit as to how long you wait between degrees, but you have to pass the proficiency lecture. (Likewise for master's proficiency, there's no set time unless you aspire to...

I took the plunge as well, and received the Mark Master degree last night... and all I can say is "WOW!!" I went in pretty much cold turkey, and was really impressed by both the flow of the degree and the lessons imparted. It seemed to be definitely a step up in intensity, and definitely...

I'm not sure how the Texas petitions work, but in AR, the two "top-line signers" are members of the lodge you are petitioning. Then there's a place for five other references, who are supposed to be people who know you well. They don't have to be Masons. The investigating committee, once...

Re-reading the set of Howard Bahr's Civil War novels, The Black Flower, The Year of Jubilo, and The Judas Field. There's a strong stream of antebellum freemasonry that runs through all three novels.

If I were going to read any book about freemasonry, either as a petitioner, working through my degrees, or even as a master mason, it most likely wouldn't be Morals and Dogma. Albert Pike's house id just a few short blocks away here in Little Rock, and having been a student of history long...

The process of making a person a Mason "at sight" is very much the same thing as the one-day workshops. The candidate is taken through the ritual for each of the three degrees sequentially, back-to-back, and does not have to pass the proficiency exam or wait any period of time betweenth...