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As this is the timing but is not the wording of the poem I have seen used for a Bible presentation I think my comparison for purposes of timing and how to not conflict with the ritual of a degree or the ritual of opening/closing to me remains apples to apples. The Bible presentation is done at...

Another cool difference! My California lodge has gold colored jewels and collar decorations as our extra fancy set for installations and OVs only, a set that has silver colored jewels and collar decorations for degrees only, a set of silver colors jewels on cords for stated meetings. And a...

Service through labor. Service through love. The conundrum of a mundane path to the divine becoming a divine path to the mundane. A certain point within a circle and all that stuff.

There are folks who have had direct personal observation of the divine. So by "we" here you mean a large percentage of humanity but you don't mean all of humanity. Gnosis comes in various forms some of which are direct personal observation of the divine. That part remains. What *was* the...

Georgia authorizes a PM jewel? Very cool. My first time through the line I learned the term "past master's jewel" to mean my PM ring. Now I want to visit a GA lodge and see those cords and jewels!

I view it as importing a part of the first three degrees that is present in other jurisdictions. Being a part of the first three degrees would make the CoR not a part of the secrets of any appendent body's degrees. Based on the history of this discussion and on the symbols in your avatar at...

Now I need to get a copy of the Monitor for Texas and read up on that. It's my first jurisdiction that requires it and now I already know of two jurisdictions that require it - Very cool.

As a visitor I should and do wear my apron as specified in my own jurisdictions. Variations of this type are one of the beauties of Masonry and a good conversation starter once the lodge is at refreshment. Visiting a Florida lodge or a lodge in any jurisdiction other than my own list, I would...

The provision is in place in jurisdictions I know about. It is called degrees by courtesy. You need to take your first degree in your own lodge but the other two may be conferred by other lodges. It takes extra paperwork, extra time and extra effort. As we're Masons the rest of our lives...

A very powerful story about how close together monotheism and polytheism really are, told from one of the two perpsectives.

That's a nice detail of Texas ritual not present everywhere. I offered to relieve the Tiler the first time I saw a Texas ballot. A bit later I saw why my offer was declined and I chuckled at myself.

Not any different from other lodges in the US and any other country that uses dues cards. A committee will be appointed to check your dues card. They will check your jurisdiction and lodge against the list in their book of recognized lodges. They will check the expiration date on your dues...

Visit other local lodges. There will be no offense taken. Any brother can recommend his own lodge but we understand men have their own viewpoints and other lodges may work better for them.

Standard advice for anywhere - First look up the local regular and recognized jurisdictions and select the lodges to approach from those lists. I supplied you the two jurisdictions. For states I don't know I start at the United Grand Lodge of England and look through their listings. Standard...

The way that protons are not identical is quantum interconnectedness. As usual with quantum mechanics any experiment that tests classical mechanics features of protons will show them as identical and any experiment that treats protons as waves will show them as identical. Most experiments that...

The two principles in question are - 1) What the WM GM says, goes. This means no, use of CoR carefully executed to not conflict with the proscribed ritual is not allowed this year. He said no and that's it for his year. He declined to put in the list to be ratified so the topic can be...

http://www.freemason.org/becomeMember/lodgeLocator.htm Searching for Palmdale gave one there, one each in Lancaster, Rosamond and Newhall plus some close to the pass. http://70.90.214.242/GrandLodge/PDF/SubLodgesList.pdf I think the nearest one to you is Lancaster.

Let's go to Mars. When we experience God there, that's one more step to confirming he's everywhere. It's a different more literal meaning for the word "universal". For a really good confirmation we'd need to go to other galaxies and experience him there, but one step outwards at a time.

Been there, done that. But officially my position for the year of decompression after the two consecutive in the east was listed as "Tiler" ... Chortle.

I asked our RW DDGM on Tuesday after his second OV. He said it was something the district instructors were told to read at their lodges. So it's not an edict and thus goes away once the annual GL meeting lets out. The part that never goes away is the part that should never have been done in...