Ma-Ha-Bone

To my brethren - congratulations on your admirable restraint.

In that, my friend, you are wrong. The lodge to which i belong has increased its membership by 219 since 2010. That's only two years, if my math is correct.

My Name is Kuan I am a master mason and I am a minister of Jesus Christ, I love Jesus Christ, and all free masons do not believe in the devil. This is funny but all things come out of the HOLY BIBLE. Every password in Masonry!!!!!!!!

obama might be a mason, a prince hall mason, the blacks have there own group. and the only 33 degree is the scotish rite, dont hate what you don't know. our country was built by masons!!!

Amen to that S.Best, we Freemasons are much maligned on the www, all pure B.S.

Dubar

heyyyy thats not right it is secret about that word and you dont know why we have that word im 12 years old i know all about them becuase i am one.MA-HA-BONE its ment to be secret dhuuuu

You rang?

good orderly direction

The word to replace the Lost Word.

If your not a mason u will never know !

I believe Obama is a Prince Hall mason and he may not be a practicing Muslim but his ring say Allah is God. Freemasonry was infiltrated by the Illuminati under Jesuit orders in the 17th century as a way to find adepts who would accept the lucifarian principles and plan of eventually creating a world government and religion. Its hard to believe that a Christian preacher who loves Jesus can consciously be a part of something so full of occultism. Albert Pikes masonry bible says that masonry is a religion and Lucifer is God. Seems like a conflict of interest preacher. Good luck with it.

Yeah, in all seriousness (hah, like you'd expect someone to be serious in a place like this, I'm not even sure if stumbling on this was a good thing or not, this is some wacky stuff)...

Masons cannot recruit, it's a thing they have in place to try to keep people who join genuine. There's no forcing anyone into it and so that rule remains last I heard.

However, I must note that in Florida the rule has changed earlier this year (each state counts as an independent masonic group, so rules and techniques will be different slightly from state to state and country to country but the concepts are the same) so it is okay for Florida masons to actually say "hey, I think you're cool and I'd like you to join the fraternity so I can count on you as a brother." From what I understand, this is actually kind of common for folks who have been through hell together in military or firefighters or other dangerous jobs. It's a major show of trust to someone they have come to work with through thick and thin.

The vast majority still aren't likely to approach you about it though since it's a new thing and some just aren't comfortable with it since they've been avoiding doing that for so long. Also, if they do approach you about it, then that's a very serious sign that they think you're a pretty cool guy. It's just not something you randomly ask people to join, they're supposed to show a desire to join themselves due to previously mentioned rules.

I suppose all I can say is that as far as secrets go, no, Obama is not a mason as far as I know (I think you're thinking of that skull and crossbones group, now THAT is some shady business, that bunch makes me nervous from all the stuff I heard about them), and most masons are not rich, but rather just charitable since charity is encouraged in masons. There's a crapton of different charities they donate to: everything from women's shelters, child ID programs to help police easily identify lost or missing children during their patrols, cancer research, wounded veteran aid, too many disease research charities than I could be assed to name, and other such stuff.

So no, bro, masons aren't a bunch of rich all-powerful white guys sitting around in a dark room with corporate CEO's and the congress all serving them expensive wine drinks like a bunch of wimpy waitresses while everyone's grinning creepily. As much as I'd like to see that for the sheer entertainment of seeing congress fuck up once again at something, it ain't happening. Masonry is a fraternity that uses symbolism and metaphors to teach morals. And that's about it.

More like a bunch of guys who like to meet, vote on stuff during a "super secretive meeting" that can be summed up with the following...

"Gee, what charity should we toss money at tonight, Brain?"

And then another guy goes "The same ones we donate to every night Pinkie; ALL OF THEM."

"All in favor raise your hand." Everybody raises their hands.

"Okay, approved. Hey, secretary guy."

"What?! What is it this time?! I'm drawing cute puppies and kitties over here and trying to look important!"

"Everyone approved tossing money at charities."

"Fine, fine, I'll write that down too." He grumbles a bit, everyone else laughs at him because "oh secretary guy, you so silly."

"Okay, so anyone we should be sad about?"

"Well actually, there's this nice old lady who owns the restaurant I work for. She's really nice; last Christmas Eve she gave all the employees a little box of cookies for them to take home. She's like the grandma I never had. But you see, she's gotten sick and had to be taken to the hospital yesterday. I'm worried about her."

"Well that is sad. Do let us know how she's doing next time we meet up. I'll be sure to pray for her with my family tomorrow night when we have dinner. Hopefully she'll get better."

This is of course after eating a dinner together with their families and laughing at jokes for about an hour and a half before the meeting.

Also, in response to that guy with the raising dead ceremony, no, there's no necromancy in masonry. Trust me, he's messing with you; there are a metric ton and a half of mason jokes that are kind of hard to get if you're not already in it. Like goats. Oh don't get me started on the goat jokes. Also, super fishies. Literally, this guy shows up with a poorly drawn crayon sketch of a tuna with a superman cape on it and when asked what the heck he was doing, he says "super fishies."

Laughs were had by all, and then everyone went home.

And there we have it folks, the super secrets that happen behind closed doors! The tell all suuuuper sinister plots of the freemasons! Be afraid, be very afraaaaid! They're going to go in the night and pray for your sick auntie to get better, they're going to throw money at charities for cancer and/or heart research, and they'll even don funny hats for the Shriners! The horror! (No seriously, all shriners are masons, you have to be a mason in order to be a shriner.)

I personally would have said of
"In GOD We Trust" that the G.O.D. is

G-old
O-il
D-rugs

but I'm a cynic.