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7thBatallion posted:What the hell jurisdiction requires you to be without underwear? Scottish Rite? Being a member of 3 lodges that use the Scottish Rite rituals for EA, FC and MM, as well as having just completed the 32nd this past weekend, I can tell you that it is not the SR. I don't know of any ritual system that requires nudity. Top half, yes. But certainly not anything else.
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jonboy8871 posted:Aaaaaaaand it's all been thrown away. Remember: if you don't know what something is, just put it in the trash! This actually made me feel a little sick to my stomach.
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One of the many reasons I love my Lodge. Alcohol isn't banned, Multiple kegs on premisses. Special dispensation, baby. 
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QPZIL posted:So I earned my black hat today and am a Master of the Royal Secret. After a long time working with the York Rite, it's nice to see how the other half lives Welcome to the Dark Side.  imac1984 posted:We just had Art de Hoyos and S. Brent Morris give a talk at one of our last meetings about the latest edition of one of their books. My Lodge recently conferred the 1844 version of our Scottish Rite Master Mason Ritual on Br. de Hoyos. He's an awesome guy and love talking "shop" with him.
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Speaking of Br. de Hoyos, he just posted this picture on his Facebook and I think I peed a little. The House of the Temple's Library. Definitely on my bucket list.
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Oct 30, 2013 01:39
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QPZIL posted:The "Blue Lodge" degrees as we think of them in the US are technically the first three degrees of the York Rite system, as far as lineage and history is concerned. Yep, this right here. There's only maybe 13 or 14 Lodges in America that use the SR rituals for their degrees and 10 of them are in the New Orleans area. They make up the entire 16th Masonic District. My Lodge was founded by German immigrants in 1844 and conducted all rituals and such in German right up to 1944. About 15 years ago, one of our Past Masters found a copy of our 1844 Rituals in an old safe and gave them to my Uncle, who passed them on the Art de Hoyos for translation. We promised to give him an honorary membership in our Lodge, but Katrina happened, then that Past Master died and it was kind of forgotten about until recently. Our current Master decided to start exemplifying the degrees and we flew Art down to give him the 3rd and finally deliver what was promised to him all those years ago. The SR Rituals are truly beautiful and should be experienced by every Mason. Anyone traveling through New Orleans, let me know and I'll see what I can arrange.
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Durette posted:secret society You keep saying this, but this: Durette posted:there is masonic stuff EVERYWHERE. Is proof enough that we aren't. Also, Durette posted:significant not-white masons as well (sorry I don't know the correct term). There are a lot of Not-white Masons all over the place. Freemasonry isn't whites only.
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Dec 3, 2013 06:14
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Durette posted:Eh, that isn't so much about the masons as it is not sharing stuff on the internet in general. I wouldn't want goons who actually believe in the Illuminati latching on to something and pestering the poo poo out of the folks back home. Well, it's not like the street address of just about every Lodge in America is listed on their respective Grand Lodge websites or anything...
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Dec 3, 2013 18:11
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I heard a story, not sure of how true it is, that an Archbishop became obsessed with learning masonic secrets. So he ordered one of his priests to join and go through the rituals so that he could report back what happened. The Priest went through all 3 degrees and reported back to the archbishop that he had completed everything. The archbishop told the priest to reveal all of the secrets and the priest responded, "I can't tell you. I'm a Mason." 
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Dec 16, 2013 03:07
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COOL CORN posted:Are there any Louisiana goons here? I've heard stories about how their work is vastly different (and the only place in America you can legally see the first three degrees the way the Scottish Rite has them written) Right here. I'm from New Orleans, and a member of a Scottish Rite Craft Lodge. The degrees are vastly different than anywhere else in the country.
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COOL CORN posted:I have so many questions. Are non-LA Masons welcome? Or maybe non-LA Scottish Rite Masons? Absolutely. We encourage visitors to witness our degrees. My Lodge has a travelling degree team that has been all over the country doing exemplifications.
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Sep 30, 2016 14:00
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Emron posted:Okay, difficult question, brothers. I'm sure I'm not alone in this, but virtually all Masons I've met have had very aggressively conservative politics. I've never had a problem with that, as it's just friendly disagreement. Yeah, try living in Louisiana with that poo poo. A local Lodge started posting garbage like that on their Facebook page and the Grandmaster had to come down on them. Now they just post generic "Respect the Badge", "Thin Blue Line" type memes. I understand that everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I just remind myself that it is an opinion. If any one of them try acting on these disgusting posts, I'll file Masonic charges so fast that their head will spin. I don't know how far it would go, but at least my conscience will be clear.
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There was a lodge in my area that had their charter pulled a few years back because the WM, JW, SW and a few others were all involved in embezzling money from the lodge.
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Keetron posted:
I'm sorry to say that mrbill passed away. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3911290&pagenumber=9&perpage=40&userid=0#post513087856
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