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I recommend that all masons complete the Royal Arch, regardless of whether you take other YR degrees and orders. This is important in completing the Hiramic legend and opens up opportunities for visiting around the world.

Best wishes.

Yes, we are taught we should be humble. I am unconvinced we are successful in that teaching. I suggest there is a distinction to be made between understanding the history, ritual, and philosophical underpinnings of Freemasonry, and the transformative process of the initiatory experience; the...

Yes, your GL has direct contact with American Canadian GL

All English speaking heraldic authorities grant corporate arms. I represented one organization with Lord Lyon. He has encouraged lodges with a Scottish connection to consider petitioning. I’m unaware of any US lodge with a grant of arms. (As a note, I’m a past chairman of the Society of...

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I’ve looked up the meeting places for my lodge (Lodge of Concord 323) in Lanes.

Masonic bodies don’t have the authority to grant arms. Lord Lyon/ME Joe Morrow has done a lecture on masonic heraldry.

Hmm, yeah. That message wouldn’t work in some jurisdictions.

Look for Arabian Lodge 882 under American-Canadian GL, United Grand Lodges of Germany.

Soo, talk to the father of your friend. Really, we aren’t going to help you here.

I wasn’t addressing that point. You would need to ask whoever it was that said it.

But not a good result.

Welcome.

QC has the Correspondence Circle for those who are not members of the Lodge. It does not make one a lodge member. UGLE has lodges (and side orders have units) in South America.

I am unaware of any outside USVI.

My son once lived in Padova. I was stationed in Napoli.

Not all GLs have lavish budgets. Otherwise, I’m in agreement. This US fixation that a lodge must have its own building is unique. I attended Eltham Palace Lodge in London for a friend’s installation. It met in the Eltham Palace Hotel. And, when you don’t have to fuss with a building...

That is my understanding of the history. However, to this point , the new GL of Lebanon is not widely recognized.