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Before joining a Lodge.

bashkim

Registered User
what are some of your advices regarding the first meetings with members and the investigation?(I am still a University student,finishing my Bachelor).
 

dfreybur

Premium Member
what are some of your advices regarding the first meetings with members and the investigation?(I am still a University student,finishing my Bachelor).

Enjoy the company. They are there to find reasons you should be welcomed among us.

The degrees come with substantial work. The proficiency for each degree is similar in effort to one college course at the lower division levels. While studying through your degrees, consider it to be one freshman level course added to your course load.

General advice for anyone who might apply -

Before your first degree read all you wish on Masonic history or philosophy. Avoid any material that claims to tell the content of the degrees. The degrees are intended to cause emotional reactions and reading in advance spoils that effect.

But more importantly there may come a day when a Brother trusts you with his life or you will trust a Brother with your life. Searching for the content of the degrees violates trust. Trust is freely given but once betrayed might never be earned back again. You will be presented to the lodge by a friend who is your sponsor. Trust that he will take as good care of you his his sponsor took care of him. Be worthy of being trusted by giving trust to a friend you know to be a worthy man.
 

bashkim

Registered User
Enjoy the company. They are there to find reasons you should be welcomed among us.

The degrees come with substantial work. The proficiency for each degree is similar in effort to one college course at the lower division levels. While studying through your degrees, consider it to be one freshman level course added to your course load.

General advice for anyone who might apply -

Before your first degree read all you wish on Masonic history or philosophy. Avoid any material that claims to tell the content of the degrees. The degrees are intended to cause emotional reactions and reading in advance spoils that effect.

But more importantly there may come a day when a Brother trusts you with his life or you will trust a Brother with your life. Searching for the content of the degrees violates trust. Trust is freely given but once betrayed might never be earned back again. You will be presented to the lodge by a friend who is your sponsor. Trust that he will take as good care of you his his sponsor took care of him. Be worthy of being trusted by giving trust to a friend you know to be a worthy man.
Thank you for the great answer sir. I really apreciate it!
 

Schuetz

Registered User
I was nervous, having known no one at my city's Lodge. However, I mustered up the courage and knocked thrice at the front door (thinking I was just so cool for knowing that, too...). There was no answer. I walked into the dining area and introduced myself to the first person I saw, saying I wanted to be a Mason. He, the Master I later learned, said I made the first step. I went on lunches and attended every pre-meeting meal, brought my wife around, went to game nights at the hall, etc. Over the space of a few months, I was able to befriend, and soon enough join, a wonderful organization. In the end, we're just people.

Quentin E. L. Schuetz, M.M.
Shekinah Lodge No. 241 • IL
 
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