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1. See http://www.grandlodgeoftexas.org/texas_mason/2013/2013-winter.pdf. What is the GM doing while kneeling there? 2. See my post two before yours.

Belated reply: Thanks for the pictures. The Conference was extremely well organized and the hosts most helpful. The next Board meeting is tentatively scheduled 8 November in Frankfurt. While only official representatives participate in the business part of the Conference, all can attend the...

Ok. Now I'm jealous :).

Which jurisdiction does not?

I direct your attention to app. page 80 of the monitor wherein the GM elect kneels for the benefit of prayer and to take his official obligation. Acacia Lodge 17, F&AM of Utah.2001. I do not recollect the hospital. The brother was terminally ill. In Utah only an MM may have a Masonic...

I am an honorary member of Wasatch. It is a vibrant lodge with good ritual.

Well, review your obligation. What does it say? I don't mean that in a harsh sense, but as an effort to respond to your question. I learned my first ritual mouth-to-ear, and understand the challenge. I suspect I should have never mastered Emulation work if it were not clear text.

Is the Tx rule limited to conferral in the jurisdiction vice membership in such degrees? I'm aware of a number of TX Masons, including a PGM, quite involved in the Order of the Bath and Cork.

Nope, no confusion here. Issue was not the a discussion of a degree, but the statement "obligations are always secret, " which is clearly not the case. Further, I am aware of degrees not being conferred in a tyled lodge. Did one myself. It is usually perilous to state something always occurs...

Hmm. I've publicly described the obligations on any number of occasions. In many areas of the US, Masters and Grand Masters take their obligations in public. In England only PMs can be present at the enthronement of the WM.

I think I am a true Mason, but I can assure you that answers (and signs) are much different in the US than in England. Indeed, I was asked to examine a US Mason visiting in England because his signs weren't recognized.

Ahh. Rocky Mountain Masonic Conference.

I have been examined rather vigorously in a FL lodge on both ritual and test oath. I've never been examined outside the US, but I've always had a host or been known before I came.

We will perform it in Utah in November. I am the director.

Yes, I've seen those who have failed examination (in England I've never seen this happen as only few questions asked and the Deacon will coach the candidate).

It is actually quite common that there are gaps in requesting recognition. It may not be a "forgot" as much as a "why bother?" Further, recognition may or may not come with rights of visitation.

I've attended the Eltham Palace Lodge which meets in the Eltham Palace Hotel. My. Cheshire Lodge and Chapter do not own their building. Two of my Utah Lodges do not own buildings. One of them meets in a schoolhouse.

Of course, no one condones selling of the degrees, i.e., making a profit from them. Yet, in AASR-SJ, we charge for the 33. In UGLE we charge for promotion to past rank. One wonders how much responsibility the GLs of the CGMNA bear responsibility for the particular problem of bogus GLs in...

Well, recognized Masons have some of the same ordens hunger which motivate these men. We also clamour after rank, position and the honors of men. Our GL regalia in many cases is identical to that portrayed here. One wonders if "that for which we have so long wrought" is a title. Lodges are...