I think the drawing distinctions article is clearer to explain my question
"In my quest, one of the rabbit holes I crawled down was the etymology of “Masonry”. It became very clear that the root of the word, “Masonry[viii]” is “Mason”. And furthermore, the root of the word, “Mason[ix],[x]” is “to make”. With a little bit of well thought out Speculation[xi] and even well founded reasoning, it’s easy to conclude that Masonry is about “making things”. In essence, Masons are Builders. "
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"One thing stands out though. No matter what the conjecture is to its origins, the one thing that remains clearly obvious is that the current day use of the word is specific: To be called a “Freemason”, one must belong to a duly Recognized Organization and, furthermore, one does not require anything more from oneself than this legitimate association to wear this label. A Freemason does not have to Build anything whatsoever, he does not have to Speculate in any way and he does not even have to do anything other than pay his dues on time and be moral in his actions; he only has to be an accepted member. In essence, Freemasons are Members. "
Good! Glad to help.
I dont use these words in this way, but the paradigm is interesting. For me "Freemason" is a broad church and includes things like the "The Honourable Fraternity of Ancient Freemasons"
It's not the usual way, but it is one that more and more within the Fraternity are embracing. I'm one of them.
In your own time Bro.For me, "Freemason" is a collective and/or descriptive noun, similar to "Christian" under which sits all sorts of things like Catholicism, Anglicanism, Baptists etc etc, and like those groups, some Freemasons have a history of claiming their particular brand of 'Freemasonry' as the one true version.
In our second degree WTs there is a wonderful , "turning neither left nor right from the paths of virtue"- for an organisation supposedly without dogma, many of us seem to value and become obsessed with a single path, which our ritual actually cautions against when you listen to it.
Anyway, I now understand what you mean when you say "Freemasonic" but your nomenclature is not something I'm going to adopt today...