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According to the facebook link below the "Ang Tipolo Lodge No. 334" was presided over by the officers of the Grand Lodge of the Philippines. (...

Wow, this comes as a shock to me. So a Demolay chapter can exist within a lodge without being under the international council?

I think Philippine chapters aren't in here..

I have contact with one or two who performed the ritual on me. Won't I be getting into some trouble if I get back to them directly? I'm pretty sure they won't like what I'm supposed to do, especially if they have been there for a very long time already. I don't know the hierarchy of masonic...

Noted. I will try to reach out to them, thanks.

Thank you for reaching out. How do I share? Shall I proceed to message the Facebook page?

I see, now it becomes clearer. Thanks for your response, I think I'll follow Bloke's suggestions in sharing what happened.

I see, thanks for clarifying. Well I think I'll have my brother know things for himself. It's his own journey anyway.

No, I'm not a Mason. I was 18/19 when that happened, and I was thinking, I'll just try masonry when I'm 21 (legal age) in my country - Philippines. But the experience in that initiation made me think of few things, if that's how things really are for masonic lodges I think it's not for me. I...

Woah, that's quite a family. Awesome, thanks for sharing! :) Anyway some of the things that happened during my initiation: punching the abdomen (though not full swings, and they kinda told me to prepare for it - I should harden my abdominal muscles). Some push ups.. fast, and they push me down...

Thanks for the quick and clear response. Also, I remember very well, one of them told me a few minutes before the initiation in our local language "Hey, don't be shocked, there's still hazing, but just a bit - can't be helped...this is a fraternity after all". P.S. If anyone wants the details...

By dictionary definition, is hazing allowed to be done during initiation? I was a DeMolay petitioner and although I will break my vow of silence after 2-3 years, I want to raise this question for my brother's sake because he wants to join the same lodge. I'm worried because physical harm was the...