What is a Mason?
“I think my grandfather was one, but I’m not sure what it means.”
“Yeah, my dad and uncle both used to go to Masonic meetings I remember Uncle Fred coming by to pick him up. But I don’t know where they went or what they did.” “I think they wear those funny hats.” |
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What’s a Mason?
The answer is simple. A Mason (or Freemason) is a member of a fraternity known as Masonry (or Freemasonry). A fraternity is a group of men (just as a sorority is a group of women) who join together because:
There are things they want to do in the world. There are things they want to do “inside their own minds.” They enjoy being together with men they like and respect. |
What’s Masonry?Masonry (or Freemasonry) is the oldest fraternity in the world. No one knows just how old it is because the actual origins have been lost in time. Probably, it arose from the guilds of stonemasons who built the castles and cathedrals of the Middle Ages. Possibly, they were influenced by the Knights Templar, a group of Christian warrior monks formed in 1118 to help protect pilgrims making trips to the Holy Land.
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