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Yeah, I'm more for the direct "what lodge do you belong to." Too many of the other, more arcane, questions can lead to confusion. Not everybody has heard things like the 15¢ question.
No, my mistake. The Prince Hall Scottish Rite operates under a united Supreme Council, but this one isn't it. This one is totally clandestine. I apologize.
I read his post too quickly. The Prince Hall Scottish Rite, just like the "mainstream" Scottish Rite, does not charter craft Lodges.
No, it's not irregular. It's the Prince Hall Scottish Rite, now recognized by both the Southern Jurisdiction and Northern Masonic Jurisdiction. And, as far as the only Supreme Council being in Washington DC, the NMJ Supreme Council is in Lexington, Massachusetts.
I contacted the Grand Lodge of Illinois directly through their email link on their web site, and requested information on my grandfather's masonic record. They scanned it and emailed it back to me in just a couple of days.
So we don't recruit, and tell people "2 Be 1 Ask 1," live in a society where most people no longer know a Mason, then tell the brothers not to represent. How are those good men to find us to ask? Or are you happy to watch us continue to fade into irrelevance, while people wonder if the Masons...
Both Minnesota Grand Lodges allow plural membership between the Grand Lodges, but if we're not the only one, there are only a couple. We have quite a few men who belong to both PHA and GLoM lodges, including the current AF&AM Grand Master and the PHA Senior Warden (who is a lodge secretary and...