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I've heard this called Rusty Trowel night.

In general regular grand lodges don't have charters or warrants as such. Their founding member lodges had charters from parent jurisdictions that they turned in. What regular jurisdictions have is historical lineage since turned in plus recognition. The fact that a jurisdiction shows its...

I don't recall any official distinction between a gavel and a setting maul. As their function is symbolic not physical they are interchangeable. Get either and call it a gavel. All of the lodges in all of my districts had gavels in the drawers of their pedestals that looked like hammers not...

Because you're inside the door you are the greeting committee. In the process you can get to know every member who attends regularly and to recognize a lot of members who attend occasionally.

Welcome to the family once adopted brother.

I had in mind Arkansas and/or West Virginia. In either case perhaps if other jurisdictions started recognizing PHA in their state that type of external pressure would work. The grand lines in both states are outside of Masonic values with respect to PHA recognition. Last year the MWGM of the...

On policing ourselves - When a jurisdiction goes nuts the option in other jurisdictions is to pull recognition. A few years ago UGLE pulled recognition from GNLF for several years. Some other jurisdictions followed suit. Other jurisdictions decided to be generous and give GNLF more time to...

Welcome again, and again, to the family thrice adopted brother. The third is the end of the degrees and also the beginning of your new more spiritual life. Not the same as other types of symbolic rebirth but at the same time similar in pattern. During your degrees you put yourself into the...

Look up lodges to see if they are regular. Only present yourself for visitation at regular lodges. The simplest first steps are to look them up on the United Grand Lodge of England site - http://www.ugle.org.uk/about/foreign-grand-lodges or the Conference of Grand Masters Prince Hall Masons -...

Some jurisdictions offer initial reading with a booklet like "On the Threshold". They tend to be brief summaries of Masonic history or philosophy, state activities and charities. Feel free to read all you wish on topics like that. Avoid reading about the events of the ceremony. Do you know...

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/h/henryford122851.html "Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it." Henry Ford Want to deny that Masonry is elitist? Ponder our teaching philosophy in the face of Ford's statement. It's like going to...

You can just visit forever. Generally child organizations can be more restrictive than there parent organization. That's why they can disallow transfer when it's allowed elsewhere, but they could not allow transfers that are not allowed elsewhere. In Texas the GLofTX just this December voted...

For a while GLofIL had resume and job listings in the members only section of their web site. I don't know if this is why it went away or it was from lack of interest. With all of the many job boards on line it may well have been lack of interest. If I'm on line looking for work I'll go to...

Welcome again, and again, to the family thrice adopted brother.

You will need at least one recommender who is a member of the lodge you petition to take your degrees in. Some jurisdictions use the word sponsor for the member who recommends you. You do need to find a recommender by your own efforts. Being in a country that only recently allowed lodges, the...

We give the less-abled majority convenience in very many items, but not all. We get QWERTY keyboards, cars with manual transmissions is well over half of the world. And for some obscure reason asymmetrical butter knives in old fashioned silver plate sets. The watch is more comfortable on the...

Quoting myself. ;^) There are other invitation options in various jurisdictions. I've read the rules for some of them and the programs tend to be very restrictive.

I wear my Masonic ring on my right hand because my wedding ring is on my left hand. I wear my watch on my right hand because my left hand is more dexterous to work the latch. And to identify myself to other sword sinister folks.

Incidentally that's a perfect opportunity for second hand invitations. Explain to them that all Shriners are Masons and that Masons not allowed to invite people to become Masons. That means we can't invite people out of the general public to join us as Shiners. Then explain to them as...

Some states have blanket recognition on one or both sides. Others don't. Each year in the GLofCA proceedings there are two lists of PHA jurisdictions offered (two missing. I asked the Gr Sec this past year will do legislation this coming year). One list is the PHA jurisdictions that responded...