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For the most part, nothing in a modern context. It is a relic of the 1751 creation of the Antient Grand Lodge, separate from the Premier Grand Lodge (Moderns.) The 1813 unification into the United Grand Lodge of England ended the split. Many State Grand Lodges were aligned with one or the...

Our charter is too big, also, which has unfortunately led to it being folded a few times before being rolled and placed in the tube. Since the charter was issued in 1857, and is on actual parchment, we are afraid to unroll and unfold it lest it break apart.

I agree with drsteve. It look very much like the tube that holds our Lodge Charter.

One that I've heard that is definitely NOT from ritual is "do you have change for fifteen cents?" I now know the answer, but I had no idea what he was talking about at first. Those are the kind of questions I was referring to. In addition, ritual varies from state to state. On another board...

I'll guarantee you that if he had gotten out the catalogs from his wholesalers, he'd have found some. He just didn't personally know what you were talking about.

I am not a big fan of the "clever" challenges some people think are appropriate in Masonry. It may be that what you've been told is a legitimate question is only used in your area, or even more particularly only in your Lodge. You will then be embarrassing a true brother unnecessarily because...

And given the fact that the Supreme Court struck down the Stolen Valor Act as an unconstitutional infringement on speech, such state laws would likely be struck down if challenged.

Re: Membership and participation in Freemasonry to Minnesota now permits us to ask a good candidate if they would be interested, but only once. Then we must let it drop.

I have a quite adequate Masonic library of my own, thank you very much. I guess I'll remain as bad as conspiracy theorists because I accept modern Masonic researchers like S. Brent Morris as being at least the equal of the classical writers, who often accepted myths as facts. I do enjoy...

The unfinished pyramid is not Masonic, and the "eye of providence" was in wide use as a symbol of the protection of deity, not just by Masons. http://www.masonicinfo.com/eye.htm

My Lodge has been raising 10-12 a year for the past five years or so.

No, that is not a fact.

Never heard of it.

https://www.demolay.org/

I've heard of them, there used to be a Lodge here in town but it's long gone. I really have no opinion since I know so little about them.

Even if you answer all their questions, they'll still believe you're lying and covering up. Once my wife told a woman that she had to get home because I had to go to Lodge. The woman said "Oh, I'm so sorry." My wife asked why, and she said "Don't they worship Satan?" All you can do is laugh...

I like that.

John 10:34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, ye are gods? Yes, Freemasonry teaches us to seek the divine within.

If not, the man has missed the whole point.

I read once that the Grand Lodge of South Carolina has some rules about rings (unconfirmed,) but I've never heard of any other Grand Jurisdiction in the U.S. having any.