2012 – Freemasonry – Positively Defined – Alan Gale.

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I once overheard a conversation between an older Freemason and a young guy expressing interest in the Craft at an open day in a Masonic Hall.

The young guy asked: “Well what is Freemasonry?”
The Right Worshipful Brother ticked the points off on his fingers:
 It’s not a religion
 It’s not a cult
 It’s not a world conspiracy
 It’s not for women
 It’s not for atheists
 It’s not secretive
 Freemasons do not swear allegiances to each other
 They don’t promote each other and you won’t get a job through the Lodge.

Now, he is 100 percent right, but he typified the way many Freemasons define the organisation we all know, love and enjoy – that wonderfully concise yet not very appealing habit of defining Freemasonry by what it is NOT.