Freemasons

[Mon Ami Mate]

Couldn't help wondering if any other PHers are freemasons. I'm a member of the Kentish Lodge at Mark Mason's Hall in St James'. Anybody else?

[dans]

I thought it was meant to be "secret"

[FourWheelDrift]

www.thefreemason.com/forum/

They also have there own little place in the internetworkworldwideweb

[Fer]

It is a society with secrets, as opposed to a secret society.

[_dobbo_]

Apparently the next Dan Brown (Da Vinci Code bloke) book is about the freemasons...

amazon.com said:

The information that has been revealed so far about Brown's next Robert Langdon adventure is that it takes place in America and focuses on the founding of the nation and the powerful secret society of Freemasonry.

I'm not a Mason though....

[Mon Ami Mate]

dans said:

I thought it was meant to be "secret"

Not at all. There's an awful lot of misinformation about Freemasonry - there is mystery attached to the various degrees that freemasons pass through as they progress, but it wouldn't be much of a challenge if it was all common knowledge.

[john75]

As far as i know the Freemason's are just a club for men in the same way as WI are for women.

[Mon Ami Mate]

john75 said:

As far as i know the Freemason's are just a club for men in the same way as WI are for women.

It's a bit like boy scouts for grown ups really. We spend a lot of time drinking beer.

[Corin Denton]

I was always taught to be cautious myself.

[apache]

I'd be interested, a club that looks after itself and members sounds good to me

[voyds9]

I thought they were a fund raising team for the Knights Templar (priory of Scion) and were hiding the arc of the covenant.

[yertis]

Yes I thought that too. I've been invited to join a few times, but now the uncles concerned have all died and I've missed my chance. Shame really because I'm quite handy with a cold chisel.

[330Clubsport]

Letter or halve it?

[YarisSi]

I know the secret handshake (I think). But then need to say some stuff about rank and lodge.

[IOLAIRE]

voyds9 said:

I thought they were a fund raising team for the Knights Templar (priory of Scion) and were hiding the arc of the covenant.

Oh dear, dear me!!
What was it Rabbie said? "God preserve us from the English!"
If you want to know what the Templars were about and their esoteric qualities visit Rosslyn Chapel in Midlothian.
If you want to know what the Lodge is about, join.

[thebluemonkey]

IOLAIRE said:

If you want to know what the Lodge is about, join.

How do you join ? I assume that it is by invitation only ?

[nicholas blair]

Any excuse to get the dinner suit on.

[wedge girl]

My Dad is a past master of the London Lodge he has many awards for his fund raising.

[vario-rob]

Perhaps one of the Pistonheading Freemasons could help me out on this one.

I have been asked to join but have always steered very well clear of it. To me the idea of a secret society that in essence all about the interests of the self and fellow members and the same time also marches under the banner of Christianity is something of a paradox. Surely if freemasonry is a truly Christian organisation then it should be about the interests of everyone and not just its members?

I do accept that I may have the wrong end of the stick on this one so I look forward to being told where I have gone wrong.

Oh yes, does being a catholic count you out?

[father ted]

Was invited by by uncle to join a lodge ....but declined......and understand you only get asked the once is this right?.......