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Yes, I believe checking with the GL is probably the best course of action.

To each his own, as you and I have disagreed on many threads. But if everything is written down in plain language, and all that is required is to answer a few questions, Freemasonry might as well be no more than the Moose or the Elks.

I can't speak for your particular jurisdiction, but in my state, if a member in good standing asks for a demit, the lodge has no choice but to grant it. If someone was permanently moving across the state, the common thing to do would be petition for affiliation to a lodge in his new town and...

I didn't mean landmark as in Masonic Landmark. Perhaps I should have said "one of the foundations" of becoming a Mason. Sorry for any confusion. Our state allows the GM to waive the time and allows him to make Masons at sight if he wishes, but that isn't the point. In our state, the waiting time...

The landmark of the lectures being passed mouth to ear, it being a right of passage to learn your lectures and pass them, the time spent with a mentor teaching you your lectures. After 20 years, I remember very little about my actual degrees. I can remember one thing from my EA, absolutely...

This is not 100 percent the case, but a pretty good observation (if I do say so myself) ... York Rite bodies are more spread out and located on the local level. Scottish Rite valleys are fewer and located in metropolitan areas. Scottish Rite degrees are numbered. That leads the profane to hear...

While I doubt that I would look negatively on a person who did the ODC, I certainly don't have a positive opinion of getting your degrees in one day. It is contrary to the landmarks of the craft. You learn to become a Mason by working with someone to learn your lectures. I agree that ODCs are a...

Does anyone have an opinion on what is the best chapeau available, balancing quality and price? My chapeau is an antique model I bought off ebay. I will be moving closer to commander next year, so I figured I should break down and buy a nice one. I have had a tendency throughout my life to try...

For us, it's really more the Past Masters than the officers.

Yep, your mark should be unique. It is YOUR mark.

If the same person/people are always the ones against a proposal, politely call them out in public. Say, "OK, Brother, give us some ideas that you are in favor of doing." When they are put on the spot and have no response, the next time they'll think twice before shooting everything down on a...

Our stated meetings are generally all business (because we fortunately have quite a bit) and last about an hour. We have enough degree work that the "Masonry" part of it comes in there. We have an EA coming up next week, and that will be our 30th lodge opening and our 32nd degree conferred this...

Congratulations.

I will agree with the sentiments that no one is thought of as lesser for not joining YR or SR. As for my lodge where we have Blue Lodge, Chapter, Council, and Commandery all under one roof, those of us who are in the YR are the most active. That is neither positive or negative. It's just a...

Joining one of the appendant bodies does not make you more of a Mason. Once you are a Master Mason, you are as much of a Mason as any other man on the planet. What joining the York Rite does is make you a better informed Mason. It completes the story.

I have read it twice, 20 years apart, and don't care for it the way some do. I just don't buy into some of the book's claims.

Congratulations. You're Masonic experience hasn't ended; it's just begun.

I am sorry to hear your experiences in the York Rite have not been good. In my area, our YR bodies and York Rite College are the backbone of Masonry.

There is nothing incompatible with Masonry and the Catholic church (or Baptist, or Methodist, or Presbyterian, or anything). The reason popes, and potentates, have historically condemned Freemasonry is because the craft endorsed free thought and the democratic election of its leadership. That is...