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What are the core values of Freemasons?
Freemasonry is built upon three basic tenets or principles – Brotherly Love, Relief and Truth. Brotherly Love is the practice of the Golden Rule. Relief embodies charity for all mankind. Truth is honesty, fair play, and adherence to the cardinal virtues of Temperance, Fortitude, Prudence, and Justice.
What are Freemasons known for?
1. The Freemasons Are the Oldest Fraternal Organization in the World. Freemasons belong to the oldest fraternal organization in the world, a group begun during the Middle Ages in Europe as a guild of skilled builders. With the decline of cathedral building, the focus of the society shifted.
Do Freemasons pay taxes?
Individual freemasons pay taxes like anyone else. Masonic Lodges are often tax exempt, such as under 26 USC 501(c)(10) in the United States.
Why do Freemasons stamp pennies?
While the main reason these Mark Pennies exist is to visually identify Masonic brothers to each other, they also serve to remind Masons of the fundamental ideals of Freemasonry.
What is the ideal Freemason?
The ideal Freemason has developed his basic personality traits and has established his own fundamental approach to the world and its stresses and strains, is secure in his position in life and is able to live quietly and modestly. He does not have to put on airs to impress others.
Who are the hardest masons to persuade to talk?
Masonic barristers are among the hardest Masons of all to persuade to talk, or even admit to being part of the Brotherhood.
Why are so many judges Masons?
Where Freemasonry does play a big part – and this is why so many judges are Masons – is in the process by which appointments to the Bench are made. I discovered this as a result of acting on the advice of a London Circuit judge who wrote to me:
Can a barrister be a Masonic solicitor?
While the Bar remains a masonic stronghold, there is not such a high proportion of masonic barristers as masonic solicitors, who are looked at in Chapter 21. One reason there was always less need for a barrister to join the Brotherhood is that barristers traditionally had the compensation of circuit life.