New Freemason wife

geoffky

If the cry is heard it is every masons duty to help their fellow mason..
Now look how that can be used and twisted in modern life...Not healthy.


Subtle Brainwashing...
The lower degrees think they know but the higher degrees know they know nothing.
On the square..No

axomoxia

geoffky wrote: »

If the cry is heard it is every masons duty to help their fellow mason..
Now look how that can be used and twisted in modern life...Not healthy.


Subtle Brainwashing...
The lower degrees think they know but the higher degrees know they know nothing.
On the square..No

Always interesting when someone who is not a member starts making claims about an organisation that I'm actual a member off..... and starts out getting confused with american masonry - there are only three degrees in English masonry, and most masons achieve those with two years or so of joining.

There is no actual obligation to help a brother. There is however to an obligation to help a "brother" i.e. _any_ person in need. This is a fundamental aspect of masonry namely charity. The "brother" in this case is symbolic, as is all of freemasonry. This is unsurprising based on its routes in the guild lodges of illiterate medieval stone masons.

Anyway someone said about what goes on in a meeting - this is what happened in my last meeting. There is a lot of voting on things and minutes - a lodge is proper legal entity, registered with the charity commission so any decision must be properly acted on and minuted.

1. Open the lodge (a small ceremony)
2. Vote on and sign the minutes of the last meeting
3. Vote on a the membership of a new member.
4. Vote on the distribution of charity money for the previous year
5. Demonstrate the ceremony of the second degree.
6. Vote in the officers officers of the lodge for next year
7. The charity steward stood and give a brief report of how the fund-raising was going
8. The almoner (thats the chap who looks after any widows or ill brethren) stood up and gave a brief report.
9. Secretary gave a brief report of news from grand lodge and provincial lodge
10. Closed the lodge with a small ceremony.

If you want to find out what goes on the ceremonies, you'll need one of these. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Emulation-Ritual-Lodge-Improvement/dp/0853182655/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1390671828&sr=1-1&keywords=emulation+ritual

its got everything in, and no I'm not typing it all in.

After the meeting we had a formal sit down dinner, with toasts, speeches and a charity raffle.

And thats it. No goats, chickens, worshipping of devils, manipulation of the shadow banking system, or turning into lizards. Come to think of it it would be far more exciting if there was

Apart from that alas, any attempt to use "masonic influence" to get out of legal "issues" will end up with me still convicted and probably unceremoniously given the boot as well.

mountainofdebt

axomoxia wrote: »

And thats it. No goats, chickens, worshipping of devils, manipulation of the shadow banking system, or turning into lizards. Come to think of it it would be far more exciting if there was

You've got it pretty much spot on Axomoia - I've read the minutes of my OH's lodge meetings (oh poke my eyes out with a blunt stick lol) and I've have to say I think I'd have more fun watching paint dry.

Quentin

axomoxia wrote: »

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And thats it. No goats, chickens, worshipping of devils, manipulation of the shadow banking system, or turning into lizards. Come to think of it it would be far more exciting if there was .....

What about when you do the rolled up trousers and the bare nipples???


Sounds entertain

axomoxia

Quentin wrote: »

What about when you do the rolled up trousers and the bare nipples???


Sounds entertain

Only one person (if at all) would have their trouser leg rolled up and their shirt undone. And its a different trouser leg depending on which ceremony

axomoxia

mountainofdebt wrote: »

You've got it pretty much spot on Axomoia - I've read the minutes of my OH's lodge meetings (oh poke my eyes out with a blunt stick lol) and I've have to say I think I'd have more fun watching paint dry.

In all fairness the meetings are somewhat more interesting than the minutes of the meeting.

Tiglath

I just asked DH if he'd join the FMs if asked, and he said No because it sounds really boring compared to coven meetings.

axomoxia

Tiglath wrote: »

I just asked DH if he'd join the FMs if asked, and he said No because it sounds really boring compared to coven meetings.

Its probably is. I don't know what branch of Wicca your other half subscribes to, but if it gardnarian Wicca, he might find there to to be far more similarities with craft freemasonry than he would think.

I have several friend who are Wiccans, and there's quite a bit I've seen to make me go "hang on, that looks familiar...."

Oh, and membership is by application, not invitation....

Quentin

axomoxia wrote: »

Only one person (if at all) would have their trouser leg rolled up and their shirt undone. And its a different trouser leg depending on which ceremony

Sounds a good laugh for all those watchin.

Do they put this on as a turn for ladies night?

(Looks as though long john silver will be out of luck if he's had the wrong leg removed. Or are amputees just not recruited?)

Tiglath

axomoxia wrote: »

Its probably is. I don't know what branch of Wicca your other half subscribes to, but if it gardnarian Wicca, he might find there to to be far more similarities with craft freemasonry than he would think.

I have several friend who are Wiccans, and there's quite a bit I've seen to make me go "hang on, that looks familiar...."

Oh, and membership is by application, not invitation....

Yep to all of that, although he's more eclectic now. The two crafts are certainly kissing cousins. The former HP is also an FM. Shades of Crowley, MacGregor Mathers etc.