When can I call myself a Mason?

[scialytic]

Sorry...the learning curve for this forum is made worse by only using my iPhone. Fat thumbs = Typos

 

[scialytic]

I was raised Feb 21st,2002 but became interested in 1996 ... I spent 4 yrs researching everything i could on the internet and asking people i knew to be masons about the fraternity and to make sure it did not interfear with my Christian beliefs . No matter what i saw ,read or was told diminished the experiences i had in any degree ... It was nothing like i expected .... when i was scared and sweating and in darkness i forgot anything i had read or saw... The real beauty of the degree came after the degree when i was bonding with brothers and gaining my own interpetation of what i went thru and realizing how special what i had just done was and who came that way b4 me . If i really think about it i would say i have always been a mason I just had to profess it thru the ritual to be held accountable to God and my Brothers .

Ricky

I was hoping somebody would say that. I've been researching off-and-on for several years. I really feel like I am just scratching the surface because I don't have the proper context. Without the key (Light) it is not complete. Your experience gives me hope that when I am initiated as an EA, FC, and ultimately MM...it will be just as beautiful and transformational as if I hadn't read any books or history on the Craft.

 

[promason]

In each of us lies a temple and a light,Masonry is a way to discover and develop that temple to make the neophyte a better individual,good for society and humanity

 

[promason]

In each one of us lies a Hiram and a Solomon