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Congrats !

Here, the only installed and invested officers that are elected are the WM, tyler and treasurer (auditors are also elected, but they are not installed or invested). All other officers are appointed by the WM (except of course the IPM, which is held by right.)

As an aside, alcohol can be served in our lodges, but we have "wet" lodges which serve alcohol and "dry" lodges which don't. Sounds like you would expect that to develop with a change of rules. These dry lodges are a legacy from the temperance movement.. but are becoming few in number. While...

You and I have a slightly different view of Freemasonry, but nonetheless, ritual is simply a teaching vehicle, and as a Past Master, I still have a lot to learn from it, so simply, the work of a MM lodge with no candidates is to see each member grow...there are a lot of ways to do that, but...

Congratulations Brother JW !

Fraternal Greetings from Australia !

Agree. As an EA, you might have been able to work that out.. but the general public might not and that allows scammer to use our name for bad.. "Send us money. Trust us we are Masons...For real!" That's about the size of it. I recently came across a scam using " UGLE " "invoices" to collect...

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.

Greetings, welcome, and that's cool !

Greetings and welcome Brother !

Congratulations WM and I hope you serve your Lodge to your own satisfaction and to the satisfaction of your Brethren.

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 :)

Thanks for your reply !

I will not wish you luck - I will wish you every success !

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...