Your masonic style & address is directly related to whether or not you are wearing an apron. The style and address, Brother is always right, and never wrong in Lodge. The style and address, Companion is always right, and never wrong in Chapter & Council. The style and address, Sir Knight is always right, and never wrong [...]

Dear Unknown Friends, Here is the Register House Manuscript, so named, after its discovery in 1930 by Bro Charles T McInnes in the Old Register House, Edinburgh. This catechism is perhaps the oldest example of Masonic ritual extant. It bears note possession of this document, nor knowledge of it, grants access into a Masonic Lodge. [...]

1. Understand and accept that you will make mistakes. No matter how prepared you are, no matter how much ritual you know, or how well you know it, no matter how many times you may have been in the chair before, you will make mistakes. The point is to own them, don’t hide from them, [...]

When Labour is done for the love of pure Labour     The Labour is sweet to enjoy and to savor. When Labour is done for the want of Reward     The Labour is weighty, the bane of one’s Lord. The Stone which the Builders rejected outright,     Was quickly dispatched and then thrown out of sight, It was [...]

Dear Unknown Friend, Take a minute and consider your initiation. In it, you took upon yourself an obligation not to speak on the secrets of Freemasonry, lest you pay a rather steep penalty. Upon agreeing to the terms of this contract, you were promptly invested with … not one secret pertaining to our mysteries. Have [...]