Michaelstedman81
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Can anyone let me know the EXACT standards of what makes a lodge or GL "regular" with a source? If you don't have a source, I'll take the hearsay stuff. Wanting to compare it to the following that I found in an paper by Harry Bundy, who was a Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Colorado, titled "Determining Recognition":
"In October, 1921, a convention of the International Masonic ServiceAssociations was held in Geneva, Switzerland, at which a system of
determining regularity was adopted. Naturally the English system governed
and seven tests were set by which regularity could be measured. This has
become the measure of regularity the world over. These are:
1. That it was regularly established by three or more recognized Lodges or legalized by one or more recognized Grand Lodges;
2. That it is independent and self-governing and exercises supreme and exclusive jurisdiction;
3. That it limits membership to men, believing in a S.A.O.T.U., and obligated on the book of sacred law recognized by the initiate;
4. That it requires the display of the three great lights in every Lodge at work;
5. That it bars controversial, political, and religious questions from its Lodges;
6. That it is founded upon and adheres to the ancient landmarks, customs, and usages of the Craft;
7. That it does not maintain fraternal intercourse with bodies which violate these principles."
I was also tracking that there was something somewhere that said that a lodge/GL was supposed to be able to trace its roots back to the UGLE... Can someone pinpoint that for me as well?
"In October, 1921, a convention of the International Masonic ServiceAssociations was held in Geneva, Switzerland, at which a system of
determining regularity was adopted. Naturally the English system governed
and seven tests were set by which regularity could be measured. This has
become the measure of regularity the world over. These are:
1. That it was regularly established by three or more recognized Lodges or legalized by one or more recognized Grand Lodges;
2. That it is independent and self-governing and exercises supreme and exclusive jurisdiction;
3. That it limits membership to men, believing in a S.A.O.T.U., and obligated on the book of sacred law recognized by the initiate;
4. That it requires the display of the three great lights in every Lodge at work;
5. That it bars controversial, political, and religious questions from its Lodges;
6. That it is founded upon and adheres to the ancient landmarks, customs, and usages of the Craft;
7. That it does not maintain fraternal intercourse with bodies which violate these principles."
I was also tracking that there was something somewhere that said that a lodge/GL was supposed to be able to trace its roots back to the UGLE... Can someone pinpoint that for me as well?
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