Who are the Freemasons? Are they as powerful as people think?

Question

What companies do they own? What politics do they represent? What connections do they have?

Answer 1

Encantada is quite wrong. You must ask to join a Masonic lodge, not the other way around. No Freemason will ever ask you because NO ONE is asked to join. George Washington did NOT found the first Masonic lodge in the United States. Freemasonry had existed in the Americas for at least a hundred years before George Washington was born. And Masons are not required to memorize Masonic history.

Freemasonry is a fraternal organization, not a political or economic one. Freemasons donate over a million dollars a day to charities and operate under their stated goal of "making good men better".

Answer 2

Freemasons are not a dark and mysterious society. Membership requires an invitation from a Freemason, a clean criminal record, a belief in God (not faith or religion) and memorizing the Masonic history which is not written but passed from teacher to learner. When all the members agree to admit someone and when the Masonic history can be recited perfectly, a person can be raised to a Freemason.

George Washington founded the first Masonic loge in the United States. I'd say he was pretty powerful.

Freemasons are like everybody else. They do not represent or support any one political agenda.

There is a very strong bond of loyalty Freemasons have to each other.

You can find a Freemason at all levels of society, from a farmer trying to survive to a CEO with a Golden Parachute bigger than some country's GNP.

Answer 3

Freemasons belong to the worlds oldest seculiar fraternal society, it's members and aims are to promote moral and charitable behaviour.

They do not own any companies other that themselves as an organisation.

They represent no political viewpoint as a fraternity, however each member is free to hold his own political stance. Politics is not allowed to be discussed, debated or promoted through a masonic lodge or gathering of Freemasons for masonic purposed.

Connections? Depends what you mean and connections for what purpose.

I guess each Freemason has, in essence, any other Freemason as a contact but seeing as using Freemasonry for social or business gain is strictly forbidden their is not benefit to these "connections"

Answer 4

Freemasonry is a fraternal organization with millions of members.[1] It exists in various forms worldwide, with shared moral and metaphysical ideals and in most of its branches requires a constitutional declaration of belief in a Supreme Being.[2]

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 landmarks and regularity. There are also appendant bodies, which are organizations related to the main branch of Freemasonry, but with their own independent administration.

The fraternity is widely involved in charity and community service activities. In contemporary times, money is collected only from the membership, and is to be devoted to charitable purposes. Freemasonry worldwide disburses substantial charitable amounts to non-Masonic charities, locally, nationally and internationally. In earlier centuries, however, charitable funds were collected more on the basis of a Provident or Friendly Society, and there were elaborate regulations to determine a petitioner's eligibility for consideration for charity, according to strictly Masonic criteria.

Some examples of Masonic charities include:

Homes[37] that provide sheltered housing or nursing care.
Education with both educational grants[38] or residential education[39] which are open to all and not limited to the families of Freemasons.
Medical assistance.[40]

Answer 5

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free·ma·son [fr màyss'n]
(plural free·ma·sons)
noun
skilled traveling medieval stonemason: a member of an organization of skilled stonemasons traveling from place to place in medieval Europe

Freemason

(plural Free·ma·sons)
noun
worldwide society: a member of a worldwide society, the Free and Accepted Masons, that is known particularly for its charitable work and its secret rites

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