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Post by ingo on Nov 29, 2005 15:04:40 GMT
Interesting question.... we hold public speeches
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Post by petertaylor on Nov 29, 2005 16:04:18 GMT
Sorry can really vote on this one; my Lodge has obtained members from several of the sources quoted!
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Post by giovanni on Nov 29, 2005 16:06:49 GMT
Usually, through friends who are already in and that invite the perspective Candidate to apply.
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Post by taylorsman on Nov 29, 2005 16:53:08 GMT
By invitation from existing Members to friends, relatives, co-workers, clients, neighbours etc.
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Post by ingo on Nov 30, 2005 11:22:12 GMT
Maybe I should ask clearer next time: I mean which is the main emphasis of your achievement?
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Post by vadro on Dec 1, 2005 10:43:47 GMT
In my lodge we have two candidates who applied directly to the GL as they didn't know anybody in the Craft. This can be one of means to join Freemasonry, but usually is trhough friends, relatives, etc.
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Post by ruffashlar on Dec 3, 2005 7:01:30 GMT
With us often it's a tradition in families.
Trouble is, lots of things are a tradition in families, and they're usually considered to be a good idea by someone like Dad or Uncle Roderick, but everyone else secretly loathes them.
So we've had one or two Candidates who get up to the door and just leg it, because they don't really want to join in the first place. Or they do join, but don't go regularly, or miss their Fellowcraft, or don't get Raised or do their Mark.
It's sad, but it does happen.
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Post by taylorsman on Dec 3, 2005 8:24:10 GMT
I agree with Ruff. In many families down her it used to be traditional that a son would follow his father into his Lodge. This used to work quite well as the boards with the names of Past Masters of Lodges would indicate. However, if a man is press ganged into joining he will often do his Three Degrees to please his old man, or sometimes it's his Father in Law but then bail out. A good example of this is Prince Phillip. The late King George VI was a very keen Freemason, indeed he was Grand Master Mason of Scotland 1936-37. It is said that when Phillip of Greece become engaged to the then Princess Elizabeth her father wanted him to become a Freemason and to please him he did but had no real interest in The Craft and after doing his Third he took no further active part.
I do feel that anyone joining Freemasonry should do so "Of his own Free Will and Accord"
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Post by mrmason on Dec 5, 2005 8:44:24 GMT
My own lodge takes it's members from the local area at an average of 2/3 candidates each year.
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Post by ingo on Dec 8, 2005 14:17:17 GMT
Tradition is very hard to find in Germany - I mean that sons or daugthers follow their parents into masonry. The rupture is caused by WW2 and the so-called "roaring sixties" where traditon was refused by the teens and twens of that time. ;D Maybe the familiy of my wife is traditional: Her great-grandfather and several other great-great-great-grandfathers of various generations (and their sons) have been masons. She did not know that before her initiation but that ancestors have been masons was known by her mother who gave her one or two documents about that later on. There still owe several letters of the wifes of these ancestsors where the wifes discuss topics of the lodge!! So the "secret" must not have been a secret then. My father-in-law did not become a mason but he visited very often our public speeches. He died in 2002 but if he would still be alive, he would have become a mason too. For that reason we did a little masonic ritual at his funeral. To-day, my wife, her sister and me are members of the same lodge in Heidelberg.
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Post by GlobalMason on Dec 20, 2005 9:58:51 GMT
With my lodge here in Germany, as we work in English to get new members is a big problem! We are lucky if we get a new face initiated every second year or so! It's so bad that by the end of the coming masonic year, the lodge will have a problem filling officers chairs! Reason being that members have left the country, ill health and others are just staying away!!
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