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What is a Lodge of Instruction?
A Lodge of Instruction, or LOI, is a district-level school of the Craft. Under the District Deputy Grand Master, Brothers from the lodges of a district meet regularly to learn and rehearse the work: ritual, floor work, candidate instruction, and the practical duties of each officer's station.
The purpose is consistency. When every lodge in a district learns from the same approved material, a candidate in one lodge receives the same degree, taught the same way, as a candidate in the lodge down the road. Instruction is not a rehearsal for one night — it is how the work is carried forward accurately from one generation of officers to the next.
This Resource Center collects the Grand Lodge approved material an LOI needs in one searchable place: the operating manual and forms, the manuals of instruction for all three degrees, officer training topics, the Cable Tow mentoring program, and a reference library for private study.
The work is not owned by any one lodge. It is held in trust, taught plainly, and handed on intact.
Who this is for
- District Deputy Grand Masters — planning and overseeing instruction across the district.
- LOI instructors — teaching sessions from the approved manuals and notes.
- Lodge officers preparing for the East — working through leadership, mentoring, and station duties.
- Brothers studying the degrees — reading, memorizing, and understanding the work.