Ask a Mason

a reply to: thothriot

Find either a mason,or a lodge. Once you do that, ask some questions. Once you feel like joining is what you really want to do, ask a mason. It's just that easy.

You do have to have a few requirements met. You must be a man. You must not be a felon. You must have a belief in a higher power. You need to be willing to trust.

If you have any questions about that or anything else, please ask.

Here is my question for a mason.

Aren't Masons basically just employees of the money lenders?

originally posted by: stayinglowkey
Here is my question for a mason.

Aren't Masons basically just employees of the money lenders?

Well, technically, I'm sort of my own employee. Or the owners are employees of each other. We're all skinflints and generally wouldn't lend money to our own grandmas. At least not without some really solid collateral and a contract.

originally posted by: Bedlam

We're all skinflints and generally wouldn't lend money to our own grandmas. At least not without some really solid collateral...

I made mine sign over her soul.

a reply to: stayinglowkey
Basically? No. Not at all.

a reply to: Bedlam
The Master of my Lodge is self-employed. I help him out with his business from time to time, but that's volunteer work.

I've lent my grandma money...well, okay, technically I didn't want to give it to her, but her 4 of a Kind beat my bluff.

Thanks, to all of you, for your replies.

I am the direct granddaughter of Edward Bishop of Salem and the direct granddaughter of Edward Colbourne the puritan knight
English civil war veteran. My relative is Benjamin rush the direct friend to my revolutionary war hero grandfather Robert colborn. And I want to be a mason. I'm still pure white but A's I say as a real direct granddaughter of Edward Bishop of Salem isn't everyone a princess isn't everyone a witch isn't everyone a stinky thinky son of a bitch.

a reply to: meanass

You do understand what a "fraternity" is right? Not to be rude, but freemasonry is a mens group. The Order of the Eastern Star is a co-ed masonry group.

There are clandestine groups that offer masonry for women, but I don't know much about them.

Holy cow... step away from ATS for a few years and come back to find this thread still active!

a reply to: emsed1

Good to see you back.

a reply to: network dude

My mother, grandmother and Aunt were all Order of the Eastern Star-Order of Zion in Michigan. They are buried with fellow male-Masons in a Masonic Cemetery in Beverly Hills Michigan. (Although the cemetery now allows all I believe.)

My Great-Grandfathers, grandfathers and grand-mothers, uncles, cousins... are and were all Freemasons and Order of the Eastern Star members going back to the late 1800's.

a reply to: mysterioustranger
Late 1800s? Very cool. OES wasn't started until 1850 so being buried in the late 1800s would have had them as early members of the Order.

a reply to: KSigMason

Its called Acacia park Cemetery. Most all marker have eirher masonic emblem or Eastern Star on every one.

The family down in Arkansas and Tennesse....their markers are a bit earlier.

a reply to: mysterioustranger

"Acacia" is an important symbol in Freemasonry, as well as many other esoteric traditions. Very Interesting!

What does the free mean in Freemason?

Do there be a path toward sovereignty?

originally posted by: Wifibrains
What does the free mean in Freemason?

Do there be a path toward sovereignty?

That would be the Kingmasons.

a reply to: Bedlam



I ask because it seems that indeviual sovereignty is what freemasonry is, or was about.

Have things changed?

a reply to: Wifibrains
Here two articles regarding the "free" in Freemasonry:

1. www.themasonictrowel.com...
   
2. adsmithlor1949.org...
   

a reply to: KSigMason

Thanks. I read the first one.

It says what It might have meant in the past at different times and locations but did nothing to say what it "means" today.

All those different meanings from the past but today it means nothing when being used to define a proud freemason?

Free means free does it not?

Maybe its a secret?

Am I asking the right questions?

We can't know everything can we?

Am I asking too many questions?

Hehe.

I will read the other one later.

Thanks again.