Okay could someone give me a quick explanation of what they do exactly? Everything I look up on them is about the history behind it, but what about now? I see my local lodge has some meetings and a couple of breakfasts each month. Do they go to meetings to drink? What do they meet about exactly? Whats the purpose of joining?
How many Freemasons do we have on B&B
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I think you might get some insights from this thread..
http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthread.php?p=165684#post165684
Eddy,
Freemasonry means different things to different men: some enjoy the fellowship of like-minded men, some enjoy the philanthropic activities while others enjoy the philosophical and historical aspects of the Craft. There is something for most men. Perhaps you should drop by on lodge night and see for yourself.
If you have any specific questions, please feel free to PM me.
Freemasonry means different things to different men: some enjoy the fellowship of like-minded men, some enjoy the philanthropic activities while others enjoy the philosophical and historical aspects of the Craft. There is something for most men. Perhaps you should drop by on lodge night and see for yourself.
If you have any specific questions, please feel free to PM me.
Where are you, lodges often have open nights were friends are welcome. If your in NYC PM me and I can let you know when the next open night is in my lodge.
To be one, ask one. Then you need to be one for a long time before you really "get it". I'm from a long line of them
Quite simply Freemasonry is men building better men
Feel free to ask any brother mason and we will do our best to answer your questions.
Feel free to ask any brother mason and we will do our best to answer your questions.
I just received my 3rd degree in Masonry and I have been quite pleased with the caliber of man I have met in the limited time I have been a member. It is really a brotherhood. I feel honored to be a part of a group whose members believe that a man is not defined by anything but his actions and that all men can be equal, a group that puts knowledge, friendship, honesty and the want to help others before all else. I have been stressed to that my life outside of masonry should come first as far as family and work obligations go but I have been made to feel that if I were to be in need my brothers at the lodge would be there for me. I feel good about myself in knowing that I too would be there for my brothers.
That's what masonry is to me, what it is about. As far as just getting together to drink and smoke, while we do meet to talk to each other in friendship we do not smoke or drink at our meetings.
That's what masonry is to me, what it is about. As far as just getting together to drink and smoke, while we do meet to talk to each other in friendship we do not smoke or drink at our meetings.
Congrats Joe!
can atheists or agnostics be Freemasons?
belief in a supreme being and the must be male requirement are really the only stipulations to joining
Is membership automatic for children (i.e. if you are a Freemason, will your son be a Freemason)?
No. My father is one, I wish to become one, and to do so I must take the same steps that my father took to become one.
I've always wondered why atheists and agnostics are not allowed in. I mean, I hear comments using words like "knowledge, friendship, honesty and the want to help others" to describe Freemasons. So why this?
Historically, freemasonry was also the practice of Magick but that is part of the knowledge that an initiate learns. My Father was a Master Mason of the third degree and my mother was Eastern Star.
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I'll let one of the other Masons tackle this one.
I am not a free mason but its roots as i understand them tell me it would be like having a priest in the Catholic church who is athiest or agnostic. doesnt fit. Considering the Rituals are performed out of a Bible.
Ive been very interested in Joining but do not know any Masons in my area personally who i can ask.
From what ive read i think i would feel at home. Just need to find a few masons.
well, for example, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was started by Dr. William Robert Woodman, William Wynn Westcott, and Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers who were all Freemason and also Rosecrucians, which is also a Masonic body. The purpose of the Golden Dawn was the study of Magick and the Kabbalah. the Rosicrucian are an interesting branch of Freemasonry. They have published several books on astrology.
I bet you do know a few, you probably just don't know it.
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