How does one become a Mason?
Becoming a Mason is a serious responsibility. Joining Freemasonry is like making a permanent life commitment to live a certain way. To live with honor and integrity and to be willing to share with and care about others. To trust and assist in the development of one another (to be your brothers keeper) and to place Supreme trust in the Creator. So this is why it has always been prohibited for a Mason to ask someone to join the fraternity. To join and take on such responsibilities is something that has to be requested by the interested party for no one should be talked into such a decision. However, when a man decides he wants to become a mason, he asks a Mason for a petition application (See online Petition).
If you do not know a Mason Masonic Lodges are usually listed
in the "Fraternal Orders" section of your "Yellow Pages" telephone directory.
Just call the Lodge closest to you. If there is no response, call again. Lodges
do not always have a person available to answer the phone, and there may not
be an answering machine. Most Lodges meet in the early evening hours on a weekday.
Try calling between 6:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. You can drop a note addressed to
Secretary at the Lodge address listed in the telephone book or the address on
our contacts page. After downloading a petition from this site or receiving
one from a Masonic Lodge of your choice, you then fills it out and e-mail it
to info@alnuirafam.org, return it to that mason
or the Secretary of the lodge.
A committee will come and visit with you and your family to discuss more in detail what masonry is and answer any questions you may have. The committee reports its findings to the lodge. The lodge makes a decision whether or not you will be accepted. If the answer is yes the Secretary of the Blue lodge will schedule a day and time for the Entered Apprentice Degree. Everything is dignified. You are not joining a college fraternity where hazing might take place. Rather, you are joining the oldest, largest fraternal organization in the world. When you finish all three degrees, you will be a Master Mason and a full member of the Fraternity.