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Fraternal Greetings from Australia !
Nice intro and thanks for the effort. Congratulations on your marriage last year - I bet the reception set a record for being inexpensive !
Well done Brother. Keep trying. When I am in that position, I try to reach out to the lodge from whence the member came, they might more value on it that GL.
Lodges working under recognized Grand Lodges are legit.
https://www.grandlodgescotland.com/structure/district-grand-lodges/district-grand-lodge-of-lebanon/
https://nymasons.org/site/districts-lodges/district-grand-lodge-syria-lebanon/
There is a third which escapes me. Might be Grand Lodge...
Thanks for the post.
What country are you in ? Researching, I would assume you are aware of Le Droit Humain, Co-Freemasonry, Order of Women Freemasons etc etc. I see those organizations as pretty "traditional".
Thirdly, the internet does have the tendency to bring out the worst in people, and...
It was a complete rabbit hole.. and I ended up in it again the other day... it's been a great way to see the way lodges moved around local pubs, and broken a few myths about the first pub the lodge met in :)
I spend hours the other might searching lodges in this directory of English Lodges.
I may be a sad boring fellow - but it was fun ! ;)
https://www.dhi.ac.uk/lane/
Hello Benjamin, I know that was directed at Glen, but we're interested in history....
Which 1926 committee ?
"Why do most researchers continue to state that African lodge 459 has the only original English warrant (before the union) still in their archives?"
Because it is either established...
It's rare.. but also, I don't see the point of reading something you can read at home being read in lodge. That sort of thing is often more about the ego of the writer (or reader) rather than education. Better to discuss an essay than to have it read. It can make for a good Lodge Meeting - give...
I had to check, but the only two English Lodges I am aware of in the USA are Harmonic 356 & St Thomas 9679 in the US Virgin Islands.. but @Glen Cook might now of others..
If that is the case, then it is not an English Warrant working under UGLE but a Grand Lodge of North Carolina , that's why their Warrant today is No 2 and not No 403.