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I'm not as well traveled as some (I think 12 jurisdictions in the US and seven outside), but I've never found admission a particular issue (conceding that being an invited guest on occasion is a benefit ). US signs aren't a problem and the Test Oath I've never found markedly different. Also...

Are you indicating we should all have the same ritual? I should think that a great loss. In the last few years we lost a time immemorial lodge in Cheshire which had its own ritual. I found it was like loosing a language.

It would be the current GM's call. I would approve of this again today if he were to consult me.

Err, that should "Mason at sight", though the statement made is accurate as well. :)

No, I didn't tile the room when I conferred the degree and a GM in Utah does not have the power to make a GM at sight.

Well, confirmation that there are many variations and it is dangerous to say we always do one thing or the other as Masons

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.