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That is definitely on the list of bogus Masonic organizations.
https://thephylaxis.org/bogus/bogus-organizations.html
You know what annoys me more than groups pretending to be Masons? Their websites always seem to look so much more professional than ours!
Going dark as in closed for the summer months or has your Lodge closed for good and surrendered its Charter? If your Lodge has closed for good and you were a member in good standing at the time, your membership would have been transferred to another Lodge or the Grand Lodge itself possibly. If...
You are absolutely right. I misspoke and left out the part I meant to emphasize. LoL I was typing on my phone and I regularly let my thoughts get ahead of my thumbs ability to keep pace.
I stand fully by what I said in regards tonyou using the term Freemason to apply to yourself. While our own teachings state that a man is "first made a Mason in their Hearts" this does not imply that they are a Freemason and able to refer to themselves as one. (Something you did in fact do.) It...
Ask for a part in degree work to get started. There's never enough help to put on degrees. Find out when other local Lodges are having degrees and go visit. Find anything that is not being done at your Lodge and step up. Get involved.
Read a book. Some suggestions are:
Making Good Men...
I always recommend that new Brothers spend at least the next year learning amd studying the degrees of the Craft Lodge. Building relationships with the Brothers there. That's Freemasonry. Plenty of time for the appendant bodies to steal your time and resources away from your home Lodge.
That has absolutely nothing to do with the topic of this thread. If you want to connect with a specific jurisdiction, create a new thread asking the question. But first you should search the forum for what you are looking for because I guarantee that it has already been asked and answered.
Glad he's OK and I can imagine that ws a degree to remember! Reminds me of the many formations in the military where people locked their knees and took a header.
This quote from the article sums it up perfectly for me. "Unfortunately, when a youth group’s so-called adult leadership begins acting worse than a bunch of splenetic teenagers at a vindictive dodgeball grudge match, the children they’re supposed to be guiding and mentoring wind up the only...