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Wedding ring all the time, chapter ring most of the time when outdoors, lodge ring when in lodge.

You see, how different freemasonry can be. I, here in Europe, have never heard of one.day-classes before joining american forums, and never thought about any profane in our temple, not even in an empty one between meetings. And I always thought, that every brother in the world share the...

Hm, to my knowledge, Napoleon was never a mason, at least not Emperor Napoleon. Many of his Generals and Marshalls were, and he forced the Grand Orient to accept his brother as Grand Master. As far as I learned it in school, the story about the health problems (whaever it was, stomach. liver,)...

Such occasions brings up the question in me, which light is shining on whom here? Is it the masonic light shining on the new brother? How could it, if he has no further connection/time to work with it? Or is it more the light of a celeb shining on the Grand Lodge? I hope, that such in-promtu...

Well, I may step on some brothers toes now, so I apologize in advance, if I hurt any feelings. In my opinion, in many occasions across the USA, a ritual meeting has degraded to some kind of memorization contest. If the text is flawless, the ritual was "a great experience and something seemingly...

Congratulation for your initiation from across the ocean Germany). Enjoy the worldwide chain of brothers!

For the first time in 13 years, I will have no office at all for the next 3 years.

In Germany, we have two sorts of chapters, american-style (York Rite) chapters and UK-style Royal Arch Chapters. The YR chapters use the 4 banners, and the chapter I visited, have quite new ones, the UK-style chapters use the 12 banners, and I don't know how old those were, that I saw, but not...

Sorry for mixing up with the dues and the application fee. You are right, of course.

The GCR brings up great publications about no longer operated rituals and degrees. It is a bit like a research society. They meet once a year at the Masonic Week. Otherwise, response is usually very slow. You need patience to contact them. Maybe it is better from within the USA. I tried to...

I ask myself the same thing. A bunch of adult men, most of them sitting. We are not talking about a dancefloor here, aren't we?

I too heard many times, that the prerequisite for the KT degree is to be a trinitarian christian. As coming from a christian and templaristic masonic system myself (the Swedish Rite in Germany), I always asked myself, why this is so. We don't go into the details on how one lives his faith, and...

THAT, you will not get by reading. Masonry is not in any book, it is between the brothers. You have to experience it.

Freemasonry is built as an initiatoric system, in which the presentation of symbols and allegories have to be experienced firsthand. The difference is like reading about love or experiencing it. Maybe Manly P. Hall has reached a state of self-enlightenment - maybe not. To be a wellknown esoteric...

Maybe a note to mention, that the black GL - not-black GL is only a matter in the USA. The rest of the world has no issue in that division.

I think, that is a chick-thing, we will never understand.

Brothers, I really don't believe what I am reading here. If this is your opinion, then I hope, that you are honest enough to your new candidates to tell them, how hot you are after their money. It is absolutely no question, that a lodge needs money to live, and that a lodge has expenses. The...

Well, not all consider Mark as the 4th degree, if I'm correct. In England, the "4th degree" is considered to be the Royal Arch, which shall complete the craft masonry. I guess, it is all a matter of perspective and of tradition. For me, for example, freemasonry consists of 10 degrees, and taking...

Well, I actually visited my first lodge 2 weeks after my initiation. Here, a EA can visit other lodges, when accompanied by a MM. Not all lodges do so, but most. We usually visit as FC, you actually have to visit as a FC, if you want to be raised. At least, many lodges hold it that way. My first...

Hearty greetings from another European!