| Expectations of Freemasonry
Free-Masonry in the current system has failed. The example of this is look at the membership decline that has occured in the last 40 years.
The Grand Lodges cannot blame anyone or any circumstances. If Free-Masonry had been intune with what their real mission is this would have not occured. The over emphasizes of the ritual work has been a major reason so many left Masonry. Yes the ritual is important but how many know why they do certain things? What does that phrase mean? What is the number 15 in the Master Mason Degree signifiy? What is the candidate obtaining by acting out Hiram Abiff?
1. Meeting, read bills, telling who is sick, who has died, running through degree work, having fund raisers that only fund keeping the lodge open and going home. All of this is meaningless, stale and no one comes away any better from it.
2. No education. Why? Because you have Masons deciding what is education and what will be taught when they don't even know what to have for materials.
3. GL permission to go to the bath room. There is nothing a lodge can do unless the GL says so. Even websites have to be approved from Daddy.
4. Many lodges do nothing and then whine about their membership dropping. Blaming TV, sports etc, etc. If these lodges did something that gave men reason to attend they would.
5. Red tape. Everytime something is done or planned it meets with the Masonic red tape and eventually it is killed.
So next time you want to complain about yor lodge attendance place the blame at the right place with the lodge.
G. David Cooksey PM
Master Pro-Tem
Temple of Regulus
Grand Secretary UNLofA |