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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.
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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 www.mnmasoniccharities.org MMC Annual Fundraising GALA Masonic Cancer Center
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