For Freemasons, why did you choose to become a Mason, and what has been your best moment/memory?

Question

I'm getting my Entered Apprentice degree next week, and I'm pretty excited. Just wanting to hear some of your experiences. Thanks!

Answer 1

Congratulations, future brother. I chose to become a Mason because I was working with a youth organization called Jobs' Daughters that requires their adult men guardians to be Master Masons. My father had been a Grand Master of our state, but I had never joined. I finally just got around to it and have never regretted it. My best memory is being elected Junior Warden of my lodge.

Answer 2

Congratulations! You should be excited. You are on a path that has enough to keep you occupied and stimulated for the rest of your life. Keep studying and learning.

I have always been interested in what is beyond the mere exteriors of experience. When I taught in Waco, TX, my boss was deeply involved in masculine rite Masonry. I was not ready for any form of it. I really did not believe in a Supreme Being. After that, I had two life-after-life experiences and that got my attention fast!

In part I became a member of American Co-Masonry as a Path to perhaps become worthy of getting back in contact with that Ineffable Light again. I knew I needed to improve my moral conduct. I also knew I needed the balance that Co-Masonry offered. It is not everyone's path but it is mine.

A very telling moment came just before my Raising (becoming a Master Mason). I am an artistic photographer, or at least I try. Right before the ceremony my camera bag opened and a very special lens toppled out to land squarely on the lens cap. Smack! The lens is worth about $1000. I could not get the cap off but I could hear the tinkle of glass as I moved the lens around. Got that feeling?

OK, I thought right then: I can either sit here and worry about this lens or I can leave this piece of mundane goods here and go on to the ceremony. I let it go. I packed it back in the camera bag and got dressed for the ceremony. Got Raised. The next morning, the Lodge reopened and my lady friend got Raised, too. We had tested the same time.

Late that afternoon when all the Lodge gear was put away we drove home. We stopped at a fish and chips place and I took out the camera lens. I managed to unscrew the UV filter and poured out the bits of glass. That was all that was broken, the UV filter. But understand this, that was the first time I checked the lens. Does that tell you anything about what Freemasonry has done for me?

BTW, this Sunday my Lady and I are taking the Mark degree (York Rite).

Pleased for your sake and the world's,
A Master Mason
American Co-Masonry
Hiram Lodge (Santa Cruz, CA)
Amon Ra Lodge (Los Angeles, CA)
Sapientia Lodge of Research (Larkspur, CO)

Answer 3

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