What Every New Mason

Should Know
A guide to Mentoring

MWB Neil Neddermeyer

www.cinosam.net
 History
• The Craft before 1717

• 1717 and the age of enlightenment

• Freemasonry in the New World

• Masonry in Minnesota

• World-wide Masonry today

 Matching Funds Grants for Lodges
to support charitable activities
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Masonic Cancer Center

MMC Annual
Fundraising GALA
 Appendant Bodies

Scottish Rite

Shrine York Rite

Eastern Star
 Masonic Organizations for our Youth

• DeMolay

• Jobs Daughters

• Rainbow for Girls

 Governing Organization
• Lodge Leadership

• The Grand Lodge

 1st Degree

• The Entered Apprentice degree

• Youth

• The 24 inch gauge and common gavel

 2nd Degree
• The Fellow Craft Degree
• Manhood
• Plumb, Level, and Square
 3rd Degree
• The Master Mason Degree

• Old Age

• Trowel
 Attending Lodge Meetings?
• Lodge dress
• Have dues card ready
• Wear an apron
• Giving the pass
• Attitude of prayer
• Gavel raps
• Give sign to Master when speaking
• Crossing the East
 Membership Benefits
• Brotherly Love -Social support and
friendship
• Relief- Both financial and personal help for
you and your family when it is truly in
need.
• Truth- Expansion of the mind through the
study of ritual and philosophy
 What is Secret?
• Ritual

• Passwords

• GMW

• GHS of distress
Meeting Other Masons Socially
• Greeting Masons who are strangers

• Visiting other Lodges

• Instant trust and credibility

 Congratulations

MWB Neil Neddermeyer