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The cases I can recall where there's been prestige associated with a certain degree, honor or title would be the people one meets that have become KYCH in the York Rite or 33rd degree in the Scottish. However these honors are given out due to the work someone has performed, so it's more a...

For visiting lodges working the Swedish Rite degrees SR 32nd and YR 14th should usually get you into 8th degree.

That is a very good point to. In each case we all have to do what's best for us. Whilst you only get one chance to be the candidate on the receiving end, I'm certain you can still have much enjoyment and Light from a festival. Best of luck and let us hear how it went!

From experience you will get a lot more out of taking the degrees individually though. My brain is usually fried after the 3rd one and I just don't get anything out of the later ones. If you just want to get the box ticked go for a one day class. If you want to get something out of it and have...

This may be of interest for further info http://scottishriteresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/9.Memphis.pdf

You should read some of Dwight L. Smith texts "Whither are we traveling?" and "Why this confusion in the Temple" - Talks about this exact problems that has been going on for years. But as Crono says there is a small glimmer of hope that the trend my be reversing...

Born in blood is a good ready, but comes closer to fiction than fact. If you start scratching into the claims he makes and doing a little historical digging on them most of them doesn't really hold true. But a cute story none the less.

Brother Flynn does some really nice work, and is in addition to that also a very nice guy. Can highly recommend getting any of his products!

It's a little more south than west, but http://sanmarcoslodge342.org/ should be a vibrating active lodge as far as I know.

We do cross training as well during weekly practice sessions. Mainly to get people solid in their current chairs, but in the latter part of the year to get ready for new ones moving up.

Or set it us as for instance the GL of New York have done. They've got a huge building where half of it is rented out to commercial real estate and the other is for lodge use. The amount of money they take in on the rent more then covers all their expenses for the year!

I think that they are open to anyone, and MC3 is on blue lodge, so you could take that any time. MC1 is about the SR in general and some of the degrees in particular, but I think you can easily take the quiz before having seen all 32 degrees. I would probably wait with starting it until you'd...

The MRF is not an organization that you can become a member off, and the lodges listed on the site are solely for reference purposes as a list of lodges that have more Traditional Masonry. Believe the officers are selected by the present set of people behind the organization, so more or less an...

The picture is from Gray Lodge #329 in Houston, TX. The photographer is Bill Bradford, webmaster for the lodge. He took it for a competition for either GL or SR. And yes it is a great, picture. Think a lot of us have it as our background screens.

Just to clarify some of the misconceptions put forth here. The Grand Lodges who work the Swedish Rite, being Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Iceland do not actually require you to be a Christian. What they do require is that you've received a baptism and that you can prove that. Believe this is...

Texas has an electronic version too. At least from 2010. Think it usually get's updated every 2-3 years as far as I know.

An often overlooked part that Masonry does offer to a younger, more mobile and global generation is a truly global reach where you in most countries can find a lodge an be welcomed with open arms. Few other organizations have that setup.

In some jurisdictions (especially in Europe) there is still prestige in belonging to the fraternity. But I would say that in the areas where an invite and vote is as easy to get a Costco membership card, there is little prestige left. Now whether we can (or even want to) change this that is the...

What Mike said. Think the economy if nothing else will drive us this way too in the US. And to be honest I'd rather be in one great building than see five poorly maintained and crappy ones.

Don't get behind on paperwork. It's easy to not write the minutes of the meeting for that week, but when you've suddenly got 6 of them lying there and can't remember one called meeting from another it becomes an issue. Also try and standardize as much as you can. Papers same place, agenda for...