Freemasonry Forums - Making Good Men Better

Quick Links

"There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with sky-lights. All fact collectors, who have no aim beyond their facts, are one-story men. Two-story men compare, reason generalize, using the labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, predict, their best illumination comes from above, through the skylight."

-Oliver Wendell Holmes

Did You Know...

There are approximately 5 million Masons worldwide, including 2 million in the United States. The Grand Lodge of California has nearly 63,671 members and about 400 lodges throughout the state.

In China, about 300 B.C., Mencius wrote "A master Mason, in teaching his apprentices, makes use of the compasses and the square. Ye who are engaged in the pursuit of Wisdom, must also make use of the compasses and the square." Additionally, in a book called Great Learning, 500 B.C., we find that "A man should abstain from doing unto others what he would not they should do unto him; and this is called the principle of acting on the square."

In 1892 the world's tallest building was the Masonic Lodge at Randolph and State Streets in Chicago

In 1952, eighty-nine percent of the U.S. Supreme Court Justices were Freemasons.

In Hammer vs. State, 173 Indiana, 199 (1909) The Supreme Court of Indiana upheld a statute which made it a criminal offense to wear the emblem of any society or organization of which one is not a member. The court based its decision on the fact that membership in such societies is the result of fitness and selection and that the wearing of such emblems by non-members is a deceit and false pretense.

Brother "Buzz" Aldrin, a member of Clear Lake Lodge #1417 in Texas, when he stepped onto the surface of the moon, carried a special deputation from his Grand Master to claim the moon as being in the territorial jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Texas. And so it is. (5)

5) "Fraternal Review", Southern California Research Lodge F&AM.

Welcome To Freemasonryforums.com

Welcome To Freemasonry Forums.com

From all around the world, welcome brethren!

View ForumsGo

Sign UpGo

New Chat Area
Go

Arcade Area
Go

Coming Soon...
Go

Are you new to Freemasonry?

Check Out Our FAQ's Page

Still Have Questions? Ask A Mason!

Freemasonry Mission Statement

Taking Good Men and Making Them Better

The mission of the Freemasons is to engage and inspire good men, who believe in a Supreme Being, to live according square and compass to Masonic tenets of Brotherly Love, Relief and Truth.

Our mission is guided by the core values of our fraternity:

Freedom – Freemasons champion the liberties and values outlined in the founding documents of the United States of America.

Integrity – Freemasons strive to be honest, truthful and reliable, living in a just and upright manner.

Tolerance – Freemasons embrace diversity of opinion, religious, ethnic, cultural, social and educational differences.

General Masonic News

Freemasonry Forums Link of The Month

http://www.freemasonry.fm has given Freemasonryforums.com Link of the month. Thanks to all the brothers who keep our community running strong!

This Months Article

Inside the Masons
The fraternal order has long been the target of conspiracy theories and hoaxes. Here's the real story
By Jay Tolson
Posted 5/28/2008

The 1820s looked as though they would be the best of times for the special relationship between the fraternal order of Freemasonry and the young American nation. It wasn't just because so many prominent members of the founding generation--George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and indeed 13 of the 39 signers of the Constitution--had been members. It was also because the rapidly growing republic and the fraternal society still held so many ideals in common. American republican values looked like Masonic values writ large: honorable civic-mindedness, a high regard for learning and progress, and what might be called a broad and tolerant religiosity. Indeed, says Steven Bullock, a historian at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a leading scholar of the Masonic fraternity in America, Freemasons "helped to give the new nation a symbolic core."

Masonic Quotes

I am closing my address with a confession.

Since becoming a Freemason, I forgot hate. Instead, I learned to love - to love God and my fellowman. I am now at ease with my own conscience. I only do what I think is right, and shun all evil. I also forget fear. I can be alone no matter where I am, what I do, or where I go.

A clean conscience makes a man brave. I hope that Freemasonry has had the same influence upon all of you, which is an assurance of a better world to live in, and a happier humanity to live with."

General Emillio Aguinaldo, Filipino Hero,
addressing the Grand Lodge of the Philippines in 1955

This site is a member of WebRing.
To browse visit Here.