> > Did regularity for past initiations come with that?  Different
> >jurisidictions have different statutes regarding this.

> Insofar as regularity determines rights of visitation (as in
> California Masonry, which literally equates "Regular" with
> "Recognized"), no.  Regularity/recognition is a strictly temporal
> issue.

> Until a few years ago, Prince Hall Masonry in California was
> unrecognized, and then, whallah, all of a sudden, a similar vote was
> taken in each Grand Lodge (we voted first, they reciprocated a few
> months later), there was inter visitation.

> > Does the loss
> >of amity irregularize those we thought were regular?

> Yup!  If amity is dissolved, there may be no intervisitation between
> the jurisdictions.

> >Does amity confer regularity on those we once thought irregular?

> Yup.  If we recognize them, they are - by definition - regular.

> >In the present
> >it is easy to define those who we consider regular.  Historically this
> >is more difficult.

> Not really.  The archives of any Grand Lodge will show who was
> Recognized at any particular time.

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