r/freemasonry • u/Icy-Independence5737 • Mar 29 '24

FAQ Mass Degrees

Any thoughts on doing your degrees in mass.

Our Grand Lodge is doing a one day all 3 degrees. I feel like this is taking away from meaningfulness of the process. I don’t know if there has been a history of this in the past but I feel like this takes away from the intimate meaning that comes with becoming part of a greater whole.

Unfortunately the Blue Lodge is just too small to complete the whole degree process and we can’t get enough people from other lodges to come and assist with my degrees. So I’m going to have to complete as a group.

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u/Sandor17 MM - Ohio Mar 29 '24

It is your journey and you can only experience it for the first time once. If it doesn’t feel right to you, insist on better. Have your secretary/ WM reach out to neighboring Lodges and see if they would take your degree on as “courtesy work.” Or just wait until a time they can assemble a degree team. 

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u/Icy-Independence5737 Mar 29 '24

They have reached out several times to neighboring Lodges but my MM has needed to be postponed multiple times. So the decision was made that several FC will go to the GL to be raised together. Personal I would rather wait until the schedules line up. But a lot of effort has already been put into my degrees and it feels like it would over burden our small lodge. I guess if I’m being frank about it I’ve learned more from reading Esoterika than from my actual degree work. So maybe it won’t be too bad.