Regular Grand Lodge of Texas

[Blake Bowden]

Kind of deceiving...

http://www.theregulargrandlodgeoftexas.com/default.html

 

[tomasball]

On the "Constituent Lodges" page is a beautiful picture of a lodge room. Anyone have any ideas where that really is?

 

[Blake Bowden]

On the "Constituent Lodges" page is a beautiful picture of a lodge room. Anyone have any ideas where that really is?

I highly doubt that's one of their Lodges. In matter of fact, the address listed for their "Grand Lodge" is a residential address..lol

http://maps.google.com/maps?client=...code_result&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CBMQ8gEwAA

 

[tomasball]

I doubt it too, I just thought it would be cool to figure out who they pilfered the pic from.

 

[Blake Bowden]

Yeah it's gorgeous!

 

[tomasball]

As for the address, I'm not going to be snooty. The address of the Grand Commandery of Texas, KT is a business called PromotionalMerchandise.com, in Dallas.

 

[tomasball]

Actually, the RGLT story is quite a rabbit hole. They claim regularity by being recognized by the Regular Grand Lodge of England, whose Grand Master is a Peruvian Prince, and whose Grand Secretary is "Duke Alexander of Cabinda", a breakaway region of Angola.

 

[Dave in Waco]

I love the part about it being the "fasting growing Grand Lodge in Texas" yet they only have 5 Lodges.

 

[tomasball]

Well, when you have three members, and you get one more...that's a 33 percent increase

 

[Blake Bowden]

Fuzzy math I tell ya!

 

[Ashton Lawson]

That picture is of a regular lodge in Tokyo if my memory serves correctly. I've seen it before as a regular lodge, I just can't precisely recall where.

 

[Ashton Lawson]

Yup, did some quick Googling and found it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU54UguUXgM

It's the Grand Lodge of Japan's Blue Lodge Room. Very beautiful I might add.

 

[Dave in Waco]

So the picture isn't even of one of their "fastest growing" "regular" Lodges? LOL
I show that the Grand Lodge of Japan is recognized by us and they only recognize the Grand Lodge of Texas, not the poser "Regular Grand Lodge".

 

[owls84]

I just fell in love with that Lodge room. That is so awesome. Thanks Ashton, now I have added something to the Bucket List.

 

[Wingnut]

another fly by night GL... I bet they have a lodge in OHIO...

 

[rhitland]

evil non-masons , wait why do we care? I always think it is a bunch of guys that where tired of the political BS in their original frat so they made their own. Anyway I bet they give away scholarships as well, isn't that what makes us good masons?

 

[tomasball]

It matters. When clandestines are out there acting (and in some cases misbehaving) in public, representing themselves as Freemasons, it reflects on us. A young man, without a regular masonic friend to guide him, will see these flashy websites and get sucked in, only to find that he'sbeen duped. Ill will results. The beautiful MasonicInfo website has a better argument than I can make:
http://masonicinfo.com/fakemasonry.htm

 

[Bill Lins]

I think Worshipful Puss Boy had his tongue firmly in his cheek when making his post. :wink:

In all seriousness, the general public does not distinguish between "mainstream", Prince Hall, clandestine, or otherwise- to them, we are ALL "Masons" and, as such, what any of us do individually reflects upon all of us inclusively. I wish I had a solution for this but, sadly, I do not.