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Posted: 8/3/2005 4:49:42 PM EDT
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Wow...no one wants to talk about the Masonic Temple!
A first around here. |
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Posted: 8/3/2005 4:53:42 PM EDT
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Paging EricTheHun!!!!
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Posted: 8/3/2005 4:53:56 PM EDT
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A Mason is Ancient, Free, and Accepted.
Look those 3 words up, it's not difficult to figure out. Ancient. Very old, as in this is not a new trendy golf club Free, self explanatory. If you are a slave you can't be free right? It's not racist, cause that bunch will be in here next. It requires freedom. Other countries than the US have Masons so I hate when people try to make this into some American Slavery thing. Educate yourself. Accepted. If you are one, you are accepted by others.Wanna be one? Ask one. That wasn't too hard was it? |
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Posted: 8/3/2005 4:56:34 PM EDT
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Not all Freemasons in the United States are "ancient" - only those whose Grand Lodge is A.F.&A.M. affiliated are. The other U.S. Lodges are F.&A.M., though one can hardly tell a difference nowadays.
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Posted: 8/3/2005 4:58:20 PM EDT
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mama says masonry is the devil
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Posted: 8/3/2005 4:58:38 PM EDT
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That pretty much sums it up! So when they say F&AM, you are either both or neither. The way I was reading it, I was thinking one or the other. Your explanation makes sense. I didnt know about the ancient part. |
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Posted: 8/3/2005 5:09:22 PM EDT
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The "original" Grand Lodges are, some newer ones are not. That's the AF&AM. Some leave off the Ancient. |
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Posted: 8/3/2005 5:48:20 PM EDT
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Actually, it is hard, and your post doesn't make a damn bit of sense. Are all of these organizations affiliated or not? Do they believe in the same thing? Can one be all three? Do they have different membership requirements? You say a mason is ancient, free, and accepted, yet you also appear to be speaking of three different groups, thus differentiating them. Frankly, you've managed to partially define three words, but they don't seem to correspond with any information about masonic organizations. And the guy was trying to educate himself, that's why he asked. |
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Posted: 8/3/2005 5:50:23 PM EDT
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How about a good old "what flippin difference does it make?" They are a philanthropic fraternal organization whose EVERY "secret" can now be found on the Internet.
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Posted: 8/3/2005 6:07:40 PM EDT
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it's one organization, that's what's not hard about it. The sign on the door says AF&AM or F&AM. That's Ancient, Free,and Accepted Masons. They are not different organizations, it is 3 words describing a single organization. So sorry you don't get it. The most important thing I posted is the one you ignored. To understand what is is to be one, ask one. You will get no better answer than that, but you won't get the full explanation in a forum like this. Find one and ask in person, it's not complicated, you only want to make it out to be. |
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Posted: 8/3/2005 6:25:22 PM EDT
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"Outstanding Response and a simple answer to one has not traveled much".
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Posted: 8/3/2005 6:27:54 PM EDT
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+1 |
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Posted: 8/3/2005 6:36:38 PM EDT
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Only the F&AM ones are allowed to have a goat chained to the sink at home.
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Posted: 8/3/2005 6:39:24 PM EDT
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We could tell you the differences, but then we'd have to sacrifice you at the altar.
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Posted: 8/3/2005 6:43:08 PM EDT
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[churchlady]It's all from SATAN![/churchlady]
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Posted: 8/3/2005 6:50:58 PM EDT
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Hey, somebody has to keep the metric system out of the US
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Posted: 8/3/2005 8:52:59 PM EDT
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Masonic lodges in Texas use the "Ancient Free & Accepted" designation, some other States (PA for one that I know of) use only "Free & Accepted". I don't know the reason for the difference but the Grand Lodges of each State recognize the regular lodges of the other. It's worth noting that some Masonic organizations are considered non-affiliated by regular Masonry and thus are not accepted by the rest of us.
The Free & Accepted term is often attributed to associations of traveling artisans in the middle ages who were known as Free and Accepted Masons, who erected religious edifaces and introduced the Gothic style of architecture. Whether this is accurate or not is the subject of some debate. As TexasSIG states, a Mason is not either Free or Accepted, he is both. |
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Posted: 8/3/2005 9:00:39 PM EDT
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If I understand how my Lodge came to be, we were originally chartered by an AF&AM Grand Lodge in Montana. When the paperwork and seal were processed, the first "A" was accidently forgotten at the printers. We then became officially chartered as F&AM. So there really is no difference. I might be wrong, being a fairly new member of less than a year, but it sounds like it just comes from the Grand Lodge that charters the lodge. Where they get it from, seeing as Grand Lodges are completely autonomous from each other, I have no idea.
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