Author: JacksonLodge146

Hand-Picked

By: Carl H. Claudy

“I have been thinking,” announced the New Brother to the Old Tiler.

“Interesting, if true,” murmured the Old Tiler, crossing his legs and leaning his sword against the wall. “Sometimes people think they are thinking when they only think they think.”

“Huh?” said the New Brother.

“I said, in other words, give me a cigar,” answered the Old Tiler. “If you are thinking, or even if you only think you think and are about to tell me about it, I should have some nicotine as support.”

“I have been thinking,” went on the New Brother, holding out his cigar case, “that the Masonic fraternity writes one of its unwritten laws upside down. I understand it is un-Masonic for me to ask the best man I know to become a Mason. But if a man against whom I know nothing, except that he is only a fair, average sort of chap, wants to come into my lodge, it is equally against Masonic principles to blackball him, just because he isn’t the best educated man in the world!” Continue reading Hand-Picked

Masonic Etiquette

 

 

Masonic Etiquette, for the most part, is merely good manners and respect for your lodge, its members, its Worshipful Master and the convention of Freemasonry, in general.

Taken from The Masonic Lodge of Education

Unfortunately, Masonic Etiquette …or Blue Lodge Etiquette, (as it is called in the United States) is largely unpublished as well as unspoken, therefore, up until now, it has been more difficult to learn its rules and nuances.

You may study ritual work, degree work, floor work and know all Masonry’s glorious history, Masonic symbols, jewels, etc. but there is very little written about how to comport yourself so you do not look foolish or be regarded as disrespectful.

Some are small things, and some are not, but your Lodge conduct is continually on display. Continue reading Masonic Etiquette