My husband is a Mason. It's a wonderful organization for men. They're good upstanding citizens who encourage the best in each other, they're always there for each other. They do a lot for each other, and for the community at large.
Oh, btw, you do not have to have family that was a Freemason to join-- my husband had no Masons in the family. A friend he met at work was a Mason and my husband was interested in joining after hearing about it, and he did.
2007-06-23 08:44:40
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answered by MSB 7
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My grandfather is a free mason. My grandmother is an eastern star. Their kind of secretive about it. All I know is that they are very old secret societies and the free masons go all the way back to the knights templar and you cannot be one unless you have family who has been or is one. They came from the early Christians.
2007-06-23 08:38:35
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answered by biggestjesusfan, † Cat P.W. † 4
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My brother is a Grand Poobah, or whatever they call it, in this organization, my father-in-law belonged, and evidently they do a great deal of good in the world, helping children in charitable causes, maintaining nursing homes and retirement homes, etc. It also maintains cheap bars and dancehalls (meeting places) for common everyday fun.
They are Christians, even though there are some ancient rites connected with the swearing-in ceremonies...marching naked in a circle, vowing loyalty, etc. Keeps women from sneaking in, I guess.
They help each other in a business sense, aiming business contracts toward each other, networking. And they help each other in other ways.
I don't think they were all that great in the beginning. The Knights Templar were not the most moral group around, and trying to read and understand Umberto Eco's books and Dan Brown's books clarify it a little, but not a lot, because they are fiction.
I have always thought of it as "Boys just wanna have fun." It's harmless, as far as I know, and provides some social programs with funding. That's okay with me.
2007-07-01 08:03:41
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answered by Me, Too 6
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The free masons are nothing more than a religious based organization. They are however very private and exclusive. You have to request a free mason to sponser you to join. They will not ask you to. There are many degrees of masons. Many politicians and business leaders are masons or have been masons. There is a benefit to becoming one in that they do help each other as a brotherhood and that in itself is why many leaders belong to the organization. Depending on where the group that you are speaking of is located, many of the groups are active and many are not.
2007-06-29 17:18:16
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answered by XXXXXX 3
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I am a Mason and I see nothing wrong with it. I am an upstanding Christian man who is on a path just like everyone else....to return to my Father above. We are NOT a secret organization or society, but a group of men - a brotherhood - who all strive to better ourselves by using ancient teachings of great men. There are no secrets in Masonry but hand shakes and passwords, and even they are not secrets anymore...it is all on the history channel and biography channel as well.
2007-06-27 16:32:56
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answered by mkgreen38 1
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Just for the record...free masonry is not a Christian thing. There may be masons who also consider themselves to be Christian...but they are not one in the same.
2007-07-01 08:07:36
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answered by Taracita 3
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There are a lot of pagan rituals involved with freemasonry, a lot of occult symbols and as a christian I stay away from these rituals. Gradfather was a mason
2007-06-30 19:15:52
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answered by Anonymous
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the free masons is a well hidden all american secret. it's to believed that they built the american way of life. they were apart of the underground railroad and helped some of the slaves to slavery, built and designed some our most historic towns and fought in our biggest wars. ( rev. war, civil war ) that's all i can tell you. :P
2007-07-01 02:54:24
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answered by Miss Random 3
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Illuminati
(Sleeper Races)
Humans and other hybrid races who serve as Fallen Angelic puppets and who are being manipulated by fear for personal survival and a desire for acquisition of power to prevent pain and create personal pleasure. Covertly metaphysically motivated towards the One World Order (OWO) Fallen Angelics’ Master Plan.
Fear, the Pleasure-Pain Principle and Disinformation are the common control elements by which Illuminati and Humans become easily misled into surrendering their power to something outside of themselves.
(See: New Age Movement)
Once this “outside source” has your power, compliance with the approval of that source becomes, implicitly, the only way to feel empowered.
The reality of our present drama means that there are hordes of amnesiac Illuminati Sleepers, “Human Greeting Teams” and “just everyday people” that are presently the unsuspected victims of Astral Tagging, targeted Psychotronic mind control or DNA bond possession.
These are mostly good-hearted, intelligent people, who think they are “honoring their God, Angle, ET, government or science”. They are being blindly guided through their chosen “Pet Control Dogma” (“Traditional” or “Contemporary,” religious or scientific) into unknowingly playing the Fallen Angelics’ Master Plan (OWO).
(Voyager II – Page 400)
The elite "Masters of War" that have held by force positions of political, religious and economic power throughout our known history from Sumeria, Babylon, Egypt and Rome, up to the present-day covert "World Management Team," are the Illuminati hybrid "Sleeper Races."
The Illuminati hybrid Sleeper Races are the Earthly Representatives of competing Anunnaki, Necromiton and Drakonian/Reptilian Fallen Angelic legions, and they have been the motivating force behind all "human" politics since the 9,558 BC "fall" of Atlantis.
Illuminati hybrid Sleepers are but a minority within Earth populations, but they are those presently in positions of greatest power and influence behind the global political, religious and economic infrastructure.
Like Earth Human races, Illuminati Sleepers races have been subjected to literally thousands of years of false cultural and religious programming via implanted Anunnaki and Drakonian/Reptilian indoctrination.
(Voyager II – Page 355)
Most Sleeper Races do not consciously know of the reality Fallen Angelics/ETs - only a few elite, key controllers among each Sleeper fraction are permitted conscious knowledge of covert Fallen Angelic/ET agendas.
Fallen Angelics historically control their Sleepers to serve as their "expendable pawns" upon "Chess-board Earth," through remote NET-transmission of subliminal psychotronic EM (electro-magnetic) scalar-pulse programs and astral Tagging.
Though the Illuminati hybrid Sleeper races appear both outwardly and genetically like "common humans," due to genetic mutations that began in 25,500 BC, they do not have the human soul essence. (See: Divine Blueprint)
The Sleepers are incarnates form the Fallen Angelic/ET collectives that control them; genuine Human 12-Tribe incarnates emerge from a once ascended master Guardian Maji Grail Line soul collective, not from the Fallen Angelic collectives from which Illuminati Sleepers emerge.
(Voyager II – Page 356)
2007-07-01 07:47:01
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answered by ExSeCRet 2
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i know nothing other than my probably un-educated view that its a bit like an insider dealing!
2007-07-01 00:59:31
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answered by emma m 4
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