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Ah, but it is the job of the lodge to point you in the right direction, to provide support for your work, to answer your questions when you think you've run into walls. And we need to be better at that.

You're not asking for facts, because as was stated above, the facts are freely available. The "evidence" proposed by those who don't believe the moon landing happened has all been debunked, such as on the show Myth Busters. You clearly have rejected the evidence and want to reject any further...

Not recently.

Does Texas have an internet policy? In Minnesota, all web sites that in any way indicate a connection to Minnesota Freemasonry must be approved by the Grand Lodge, and the approval statement posted on the home page.

Thank you for clarifying brother. What I meant was the Baphomet connection to Freemasonry came from the Taxil hoax, but I didn't say that clearly.

No, the whole Baphomet thing came from the Taxil hoax. The purpose of M&D was Pike lecturing on his thoughts and readings that informed the degrees.

When I first saw it, I wondered "why not Fee's for Degree's?" but I didn't say anything because I've been beaten up for being a "grammar Nazi" too many times. As Dave Barry once said in one of his "Ask Mr. Language Person" columns when asked to explain the proper use of the apostrophe: "That's...

Except that, unlike M. Wor. Bro. Prince Hall, George Washington did not start his branch of Freemasonry in the United States. Also, using the term George Washington Freemasonry as a catch-all is rather disrespectful to Grand Lodges in the rest of the world. I don't know the answer to getting...

Is it "supposed to be?" Yes. Is it? Probably not. Over my mild objection my lodge stopped buying lambskin and started getting synthetic several years ago, but the other choice was to raise initiation fees to cover the rising cost of real lambskin.

My Valley (Rochester) spreads the degrees out over ten months, meeting one night most months, two night a few months. We do 17 of the degrees in full form, the remaining 12 are communicated. Minneapolis Valley does all 29 degrees in full form twice a year; you have to go every week for about...

And the L.E.O. in my signature block stands for Lodge Education Officer...lol!

Ours are about half a year's dues per degree. By the way, not all jurisdictions give the same things at raising; we don't give a Bible. The newly-raised brother gets an apron, a certificate, his Minnesota Masonic Manual and a cipher, and a lapel pin. Our petition lists all the fees, so there...

I was a police officer for 25 years, but retired before becoming a Mason. I now teach law enforcement at Minnesota State University.

Quatruor Coronati IS the premier lodge of research in England. Is this the book you're talking about? I'm reading it right now: http://www.amazon.com/Freemasons-Guide-Compendium-Revised-Edition/dp/1581825609

This. My understanding of the prohibition on making Masons of "old men in dotage" has to do with the "free will and accord" requirement. If a man is so addled by age-related dementia that you don't believe he truly is able to understand what he is obligating himself to, you should not make him...

In my jurisdiction, it's economically a good deal for young Masons, but for someone my age it's not at all. I'm in my mid-60s, and an endowed membership for me is not much less than for a man in his thirties.

I'm proud to be a Founding Member and a Fellow of The Masonic Society.

There are lot of coins already available. Why try to get this one place to make one? http://www.ebay.com/bhp/masonic-challenge-coin

Re: Pleiades Lodge #478 Masonic Education Symposiu Yeah, I've got Grand Lodge the first weekend in April, the Midwest Conference on Masonic Education the second weekend in April, so I just can't do another couple of days of hotels and meals that soon. Pleiades Lodge has been really putting on...

In "mainstream" Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction, there is only one Sovereign Grand Inspector General per state, and only a total of 33 SGIG who are the active members of the Supreme Council, so some states don't have an SGIG, but rather a Deputy of the Supreme Council, who performs all the...