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Masonry is support to "make good men better". One of the ways we do that is by assigning a brother some responsibility and letting him work through his self doubt and get it done. Most of us who went through the chairs were worried about our performance as we progressed. It's part of human...

Re: Do a The third eye The Great pyramid has a huge sarcophagus at its center. Thinking it was used as a tomb is not a stretch. Observing the sarcophagus is empty and may have been so always means it is also not a stretch to think it was never used. We don't know. There was probably...

The links I posted were for Texas. Thanks for posting your geography. The recognized PHA GL of Ohio is at http://www.phaohio.org/. The recognized Grand Chapter of Ohio is at http://www.phaohio.org/amaranth/ The chapter district contacts are at http://www.phaohio.org/amaranth/oesadminfile.html...

Alas indeed. I'm an AASR-SJ Scottish Rite Mason so Australia doesn't get to speak for me, my valley or my jurisdiction. Pike may be a former SGC of the AASR-SJ but he's long dead and never did speak for me or my valley. His influence on my jurisdiction is large but old. My bias - I think my...

Re: Do a The third eye If you want to go farther east than Egypt this is a reasonable starting point to read up on the Brow Chakra which can be taken symbolically as a third eye. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakra

Incidentally this is why we discuss neither religion nor politics in tiled meetings and have a tradition for those topics to be avoided at non-tiled meetings as well. We can go years working with a brother not knowing his religious or political affiliation and then one day we learn it and there...

Yet one of my lodge goes annually to the Catholic church of one of our PMs for a St John Day observance. We are announced by the priest as visitors to the congregation and welcomed. When the communion is called our Catholic members go front to receive communion. Some of our non-Catholic...

Yep. Different jurisdiction, different rules. In my first jurisdiction some of the elderly brothers told tales of the controversy around the GL printing cipher books but it was long over by the time before I petitioned, went through my degrees and went through the line. I have a collection of...

Do you need someone to walk you through the http://nwcgrandchapter.org/ web page? Let's say you pick San Antonio #1. You click that chapter and see they meet Rice Road on the 1st Friday at 7:30. You can show up about 6:30 and when the brothers and sisters start arriving introduce yourself and...

Appendent bodies claim to be "further" rather than "higher". Should a Masonic historian claim his studies are "deeper" I'd be okay with that. That mystics call their studies "deeper" thus does not bother me. Claims of "higher" tend to draw correction from me. I've missed such boards but...

My response about century long trends in masonic popularity did not address topics of impact that membership had on society at the time. Has the database system MORI made it to every US GL yet? One year I discussed my study with one of the brothers bringing it to GL after GL. He said that...

That's correct in California and Illinois the jurisdictions I know, so it's probably true across the board. The brother who followed me through the line in Illinois is currently in the adult adviser grand line for Illinois Jobbies. He reports the Jobbies and Rainbow trade members extensively...

Bro Bryan, The population table you cited from the MSA goes back one century. GL Masonry will have seen three centuries in a few years. Looking on a longer scale shows a different trend than looking at one century. Before I petitioned I checked the stats for New Hampshire going back two...

Brother Bryan, I in no way assert that interest in the occult elements of our craft is necessary. What I assert is that they are there whether a brother has any interest in them or not and whether a brother thinks they are absent or not. I in no way assert that study or practice of the occult...

Brother Roy, Do not discount the value of fellowship. I think this is a largely ignored reason why some brothers attend regularly while others do not. The fellowship aspect is there as long as other brothers are there. I originally petitioned because I wanted to be active in the service and...

Occult means hidden. That a brother doesn't notice the occult content does not mean there is no occult content. And that's as it should be. Brothers can and do ignore the plentiful occult content of our gentle craft. But seek and ye shall find. It's there aplenty. Ignore it and it doesn't...

So the process is very similar to the first time I affiliated with a lodge in another GL, but in Texas I'll need to go through the process for every affiliation not just for the first one. Once a member of one Illinois lodge I could affiliate with others including Lodge of Research using the...

Start at the WMPHGLofTX web site appendent body listing http://www.mwphglotx.org/appendant.asp That page lists the contacts for PHA Grand Chapter. Then knowing it's the recognized one go to the PHA Grand Chapter's web site http://nwcgrandchapter.org/ The scroll region on the left lists the...

They claim to be a District directly under UGLE rather than an independent GL of their own. So let's start at UGLE and see if that's correct. I started at UGLE http://www.ugle.org.uk/ click About UGLE http://www.ugle.org.uk/about-ugle/ click Districts & Groups...

My mother lodge is Pasadena 272 California F&AM. My degrees were in 1993. I'm a life member PM 1999 there with no plan to ever demit. Plus I hold memberships in Illinois AF&AM where I have shorter tenure - One lm/PM the other honorary. Also no plan to ever demit. One at a time, but it's...