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Many clandestine GLs are registered as non-profit corporations in their state of origin. As such they are legal according to state laws. We also use the term "laws" referring to our own constitutions and bylaws. They are not legal in this Masonic sense. Asking if it's "legal" is ambiguous...

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Oklahoma PHA - Recognized in 2004 by GLofOK and plenty of other recognizing states since. Recognized by the Conference of Grand Masters Prince Hall. Not yet recognized by UGLE. As UGLE tends to rubber stamp recognition the next year there is likely to be a strange history behind recognition...

The first month the petition is accepted and an investigation committee appointed. If the petition was not accepted you would be notified at that point. Whatever happened with the signatures you would know today. There is no ballot for at least one month maybe two. The committee needs to...

Re: Wife having a problem with Freemasonry, she wa Masonry teaches that me must never come between family and church. We don't have any obvious lessons for what happens when family and church retroactively decide to come between us and Masonry. I'll agree with several other posters. To quote...

Other candidates it's like you're dragging a turtle. It varies so widely candidate to candidate. There are times when you are walking where no one is speaking. At those times whisper a few things to the candidate giving simple meaning (one shoe off is deliberate to keep you off balance so you...

The rise of genetic engineering suggest otherwise. We are in the process of going from no knowledge of genetics a couple centuries ago to no knowledge of the mechanics of genetics half a century ago to extensive control of the genetics of other species in the last couple of decades. Many of us...

http://www.mwphglcal.org/ The link for the regular and recognized MWPHGLofCA. I don't see a lodge locator on their web site.

http://thephylaxis.org/bogus/ Here's a write up on various groups that use the Prince Hall name without having valid lineage to African Lodge 459. Claiming to be Prince Hall does not equal actually being Prince Hall. Note that most but not all members of clandestine lodges have no idea the...

Brother JC, Lying about his membership and listing a regular lodge for his membership makes it certain he's a Cowan. Faking membership is the primary meaning of the word as we use it. Whether he knew his mother lodge to be clandestine when he first petitioned is irrelevant at this point...

Think of the physical petition paper. It had at least two lines for recommenders to sign on. The first to sign usually does so on the top line. In most lodges there is a presumption that he will be your mentor. In rare cases a brother will sign on the second line and ask another brother to...

More than their top line signer, to the candidates you're the mentor guy. You walk them through their degrees. How do you remember the SD from your degrees? Like that. As JD you welcome brothers back home to their own lodge and you welcome visitors from other lodges. As SD you bring...

Yet jurisdictions complain when another jurisdiction charters a lodge in their territory. It's not cut and dry at either extreme of the spectrum. When there are multiple jurisdictions in a territory do they all have to okay a new charter? No. Yet if yet another jurisdiction charters they can...

I find this very bizarre. Once he figured out his jurisdiction is clandestine all he needed to do was find a regular jurisdiction and petition for healing. Now there's no way he'll be accepted for healing. The mind set is so alien to me.

Chain of command. I'm in favor of using it. Your top line signer or assigned mentor, your WM and/or other officers.

And even then the symbolism on the Great Seal of the United States is not correctly Masonic. If the committee that designed it intended for it to have masonic symbolism they screwed it up.

Being new you haven't had time to learn internal history going back decades or centuries. As such some of this is perspective some of it is compatibility. You joined a small lodge. Almost every lodge across every century you care to read about has complained about attendance. The numbers...

Here are some links to show how to find which lodge to petition. As you have learned bogus lodges exist. Most of their members have no idea and are good men duped so don't automatically judge a man based on his affiliation. To check bogus lodges. http://thephylaxis.org/bogus/ The most...

Re: Annual Lodge Inspections - Is there a "templat The years I was in the east in two different jurisdictions the Deputy came with an agenda that was supplied by the GL. You can ask your current Deputy for a copy in advance as it's unlikely to change. I take it you're in the west this year...

There is a difference between anonymity and privacy. The streets have always been public and out in public there has never been an expectation of anonymity. People can recognize you. This was extended to telephone conversations using "common carrier" laws - The content of phone calls was...