What Every New Mason Should Know A guide to Mentoring

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What Every New Mason Should Know A guide to
Mentoring
MWB Neil Neddermeyer www.cinosam.net
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History

• The Craft before 1717
• 1717 and the age of enlightenment
• Freemasonry in the New World
• Masonry in Minnesota
• World-wide Masonry today

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Appendant Bodies

• Scottish Rite
• Shrine York Rite
• Eastern Star

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Masonic Organizations for our Youth

• DeMolay
• Jobs Daughters
• Rainbow for Girls

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Governing Organization

• Lodge Leadership
• The Grand Lodge

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1st Degree

• The Entered Apprentice degree
• Youth
• The 24 inch gauge and common gavel

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2nd Degree

• The Fellow Craft Degree
• Manhood
• Plumb, Level, and Square

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3rd Degree

• The Master Mason Degree
• Old Age
• Trowel

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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

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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

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What is Secret?

• Ritual
• Passwords
• GMW
• GHS of distress

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Meeting Other Masons Socially

• Greeting Masons who are strangers
• Visiting other Lodges
• Instant trust and credibility

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Congratulations
MWB Neil Neddermeyer