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Post by Tamrin on Apr 9, 2013 6:18:21 GMT 10
Is it a violation of our True Landmarks for a Grand Master to appoint Commissioners and then Empower them to Act as his Agents? My skepticism is raised whenever someone resorts to our Ancient Landmarks to bolster an otherwise unsupported argument: No one knows what they truly are!? As far as a Grand Master's powers are concerned and whether or not he has the right to delegate them, that seems to be nub of the controversy about the events of 1717: Essentially, a Grand Lodge is an institution intended to enable a Grand Master to delegate his powers. An extreme example is the office of Pro Grand Master in UGLE. Provided the Grand Master still takes ultimate responsibility for his delegates' actions I can see no great problem with such appointments. For those who wish to run with an Ancient Landmark argument, I leave it to them to state and prove their case.
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Post by Torence on Apr 18, 2013 23:14:45 GMT 10
If you accept the definition that the "Ancient Landmarks" consist of those things which have characterized and existed in FreeMasonry in every time and place that Masons have met, regardless of whether the Lodge is in this or that Grand Jurisdiction or if a Grand Lodge never had existed at all, then I would say that we have always elected Masters and Wardens to lead us and no one else.
Any assignment of a Grand Lodge Committee to "oversee" and/or "intervene" in the affairs of a Lodge by the definition of its existence and presence usurps the privileges and confidences that we elect to invest in our Principal Officers regardless of the caliber of Masonic Beings who would profane to take up the role.
In Illinois our Grand Lodge is simply the biggest Charity Case belonging to its constituent Local Lodges. Outside of the fraternity, I work on behalf of Individual Store Owners in the Convenience Store industry. And by our Landmarks of Fact, it is always best to affirm the fact so that Lodges maintain a similar level of deserving respect for the Officers of its Independently Owned Branch Offices owed by its Franchisor.
In My Opinion anyway...
Torence Evans Ake Secretary - Auburn Park Lodge No. 789 - Crete, Illinois Chaplain - Triluminar Lodge No. 767 - Lansing, Illinois MIGS - Illinois Lodge of Research PM - Arcadia Lodge No. 1148 - Lasning, Illinois
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 19, 2013 8:16:41 GMT 10
If you accept the definition that the "Ancient Landmarks" consist of those things which have characterized and existed in FreeMasonry in every time and place that Masons have met, regardless of whether the Lodge is in this or that Grand Jurisdiction or if a Grand Lodge never had existed at all, then I would say that we have always elected Masters and Wardens to lead us and no one else. The St. Clair Charters assert that the Saint Clair family had responsibilities with respect to the Craft in Scotland, akin to those of a Grand Master. According to the York Legend (Lansdowne MS) Prince Edwin was made a Mason and given the authority to convene and preside over an annual Grand Assembly of Masons. Whatever the case prior to 1717, after then we have a Grand Master and a Grand Lodge with powers to implement changes. We are both part of its subsequent lineage.
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Post by abraxas on Jan 6, 2017 1:35:49 GMT 10
I am sorry but I find this absurd and I want no part in a branch of Freemasonry that has links with Christian fundamentalism. What about tolerance and democracy? These used to be essential in Freemasonry.
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