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Not sure how many places I've posted either of these. 1) When I petitioned for my degrees I took the paperwork to two old friends. They looked at the form and told me they could not sign because the signatures are for members of that particular lodge and they were members of different lodges...

Did you happen to check the year of the book? By the list it would be a book maybe 15-20 years old when PHA recognition was a new thing.

Is this a detail that changes regularly in Texas? It changed in my jurisdictions faster than the details of the floor work and I don't remember a year that didn't have a floor work change. It seems like every ritual school I attended put on by certified instructors the instruction on how to...

If I don't see a list of recognized GLs on the GLs' web sites I go with the list on UGLE. I don't see a list of recognized GLs on any of the 6 recognized jurisdictions in CA, IL or TX. That tells me I can go by the best world wide authoritative list, the one from the UGLE. I do see all 6 in...

Nice combination of symbols. Symbols mean something different to every person so they have a wide range of meanings. May we all ponder our symbols to the point of being able to combine them into greater meanings such as this. The words iron and metal appear in various versions of the ritual...

Put yourself in a parallel situation. You just moved to Gotham City or Metropolis or whereever. It's been months since you attended lodge and you're itching to hang out with the brethren. You come from a state with recognition. You live in a state with recognition. There are lodges of both...

Not even the local Shrines attend together? Yikes. I should have thought of that with the rest of the no-visitation discussion but that aspect never occurred to me. Not having members of the two local GLs mixed together at a Shrine meeting? Visitors from PHA are common at meetings in...

Thanks for posting the code on life memberships, Bro Bill. I've never heard of anything like that one before. In both of my jurisdictions if the lodge wants to vote a life membership for a brother they have to cut a check from the general fund and deposit the money into the life membership...

I know that as a California and Illinois Mason I can and have visited PHA lodges in those jurisdictions. As far as the details of visitation goes there's the "when in Rome act like the Romans" rule in both of my jurisdictions so if they are locally recognized I'm okay. The recognition between...

Not being a NASCAR fan I'm not capable of having an intelligent discussion of race the way it means in the world going forward. In the neighborhood where I grew up Jewish was considered a different race yet they looked like the folks at my family reunions. From the stroller as an infant I...

Everywhere in the world except Texas, recognition comes with visitation. Often there's a delay between the votes for recognition and the start of visitation but that's a paperwork matter everywhere I've encountered other than Texas. I was in line in California when recognition was voted in...

Bro Bill, You just posted the Texas code for endowed membership and it reads exactly as a life membership program in other jurisdictions. I don't get the difference other than it has a different name than in other jurisdictions.

You can petition in one location then end up in another. Masonry is a worldwide fraternity after all. Thing is there's considerably more paperwork and hassle to do it that way. You petition a lodge, get investigated, get balloted on. You take at least one degree in that lodge. You relocate...

I can't tell if this is a statement or a question. Has PHA North Carolina been chartering lodges in the previously unoccupied territory of the DRC? Nice if it works. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo I recall them under the name Zaire and having a lot of civil...

The pre-conversion Romans mapped the deities followed in conquered lands to their own. They may well have equated Ba'al with Vulcan and Cisnerous with Vulcan and link them in two steps. If you chose to call those ancient Romans daft I'm with you on that conclusion. I'll go so far as to insert...

That's a very healthy chapter to have an average age that low. Most are much older. Last year I met a PHA OES sister who had just graduated from college. By decades the youngest OES sister I've met. We're seeing increased petitions in our lodges so crossing my fingers that happens in...

There we go. I made a narrow version and saved it as my avatar image.

Attempt number one failed to upload the file from my LinkedIn profile. Saved as a smaller JPG file 320x212 pixels. Attempt number two failed to upload file. Will poke at it a bit.

On www.dictionary.com it lists "lord". Not sure if that counts as a yes or no as an answer.

This confuses Baal fire with bale fire. Bale fire is a word that comes to English from Sanskrit through Old Norse and it means a funeral pyre. Baal fire is a word that comes to English from Hebrew and it means any of the pantheon followed by the Hebrews before they converted after Abraham and...