Who knows about mason/Freemasons?

Question

there was a man who was believed to be a mason and infact has the symbol on his headstone now.
this man had stained hard wood a cane with how do you say? It was carved so it would look twisted. It had a glass ball on top with 3 or 4 (I don't remember) smaller glass blass inside. The wooden part of the cane was made by hand.
Does anyone know if this has masonic meaning?

The man I'm talking about was my grandpa, who 50 years ago died and the cane which he only took to masonic meetings or I think church I believe he was burried with. I know he was a mason, and a good man, I'm just curious about this cane.
Grandpa told dad when he was a mason he might be told, but by 18 grandpa died and dad had a criminal record. So. oopse.
He and I asked grandma about it and she wouldn't say it was not masonic and wouldn't explain more.
You know how curisoity goes.
I guess yahoo doesn't have all the answers. boo.

Answer 1

From what you describe it is very similar to a caine my uncle uses when walking, and it has no masonic meaning at all.

The issue of things that are symbolic is anything similar can, and will, be attributed to the same.

Also many people will create things of similarity to create a personal symbolic reminder.

IMO it sound like a waking cane, and a twisted wood cane is a very popular design.

The particular details you describe have NO direct masonic meaning at all, but as mentioned people could attribute meaning if they so desired, but it doesn't make it so. The same as many other organisations and religions could who utilise a staff in their symbollogy.

If you could furnish me with an image I would gladly look further into it, but from your description it has no masonic meaning.

Answer 2

definite! i understand this for a actuality because of the fact my great-grandfather became right into a Freemason and his spouse (my great-grandmother) became into an eastern celebrity. They have been the two very religious Christians. between the standards for Freemasonry is the perception in one suitable Being. The exciting portion of it incredibly is that, you do no longer inevitably would desire to be Christian, basically perception in one bigger potential. So incredibly, you will nicely be of very almost any faith and be a Freemason. even though, maximum Freemasons are Christian. My own opinion is that Freemasons (and the shot-offs) the place and are the only actual Christians, a minimum of people who stay via the Freemason ideals. they are very worrying and heat human beings. even however i'm Pagan, i'm hoping I finally end up marrying a Freemason later on down the line. To be an eastern celebrity may be such an honor.

Answer 3

Freemasonry is a fraternal organization, existing in various forms worldwide, whose membership has shared moral and metaphysical ideals and in most of its branches requires a constitutional declaration of belief in a Supreme Being.[1]

Freemasonry is administratively organized into Grand Lodges (or sometimes Orients) that govern a particular jurisdiction made up of subordinate (or constituent) Lodges. Grand Lodges recognize each other through a process of Masonic Landmarks and regularity. There are also appendant bodies, which are organizations related to the main branch of Freemasonry, but with their own independent administration.

Freemasonry uses the metaphors of operative stonemasons' tools and implements, against the allegorical backdrop of the building of King Solomon's Temple, to convey what is most generally defined as "a system of morality veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols."[2]

While it has often been called a "secret society", it is more correct to say that it is an esoteric society, in that certain aspects are private.[3] From many quarters, Freemasons have stated that Freemasonry has, in the 21st century, become less a secret society and more of a "society with secrets."[4] The private aspects of modern Freemasonry are the modes of recognition amongst members and particular elements within the ritual.[5]

While there have been many disclosures and exposés dating as far back as the eighteenth century, these often lack the proper context for true understanding, may be outdated for various reasons,[6] or could be outright hoaxes on the part of the author.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemasonry

Answer 4

Yes, It does.

No, do not ask me what it means.

Freemasonry has been around for hundreds of years. Before there were things like telegraph and telephone to check up on people. Masons developed secret handshakes, signs and passwords so that one Mason would know if another person was actually a Mason.

Since a Mason has to be unanimously voted into lodge in six separate votes one Mason can be pretty sure another Mason is a trustworthy person. Not always true, but, if you can get a group of people to unanimously vote for you six times you must be okay.

These signs and passwords are in the public domain now, but, we can rely on electronic communications to weed out pretenders.

We keep the secret signs and passwords "secret" for the sake of tradition.

Answer 5

Not to my knowledge, and I'm pretty well-read on things "Masonic" (although I am NOT a Mason - I'm the first "break" in the chain of my Masonic family since the Revolutionary War.)

Answer 6

I know from some reading that the cane is very symbolic,it is called a two ball cane,this is a simple twist to hide the fact that it is called after Tubal Cain the ancient architect of freemasonry, aka Satan.

Answer 7

Tubal Cain was the son of Lamech. NOT the `architect` of freemasonry, and nothing to do with Satan.

Answer 8

What you describe ther is a staff. I have one too and it is considered a magickal tool. This freemason sounds like he was a true freemason and not in it just for the social and charity events. I meet Freemasons who do not know half what I know about it and I'm not even a Freemason and I'm telling them about it. Freemasonry is not nearly as esoteric as it used to be.