Discover Masonry

Read this first.   Just like you had to click the button to enter this page, you have to decide to join masonry on your own.  No mason will ever invite you to be a mason.  To be a candidate, you have to be confident enough to walk into a room of strangers, introduce yourself, then hang out and socialize.  If you can't do that then maybe masonry isn't for you... or maybe it's just the thing you need.

To be successful, you need to have a growth mindset and be willing to treat your own improvement as a craft to be perfected.  This is the moment where metaphors of stonework begin.  Methods are easily communicated, but mastery takes practice and a wiliness to put your faults in the open, not for ridicule, but to bring them to light so they can be carved away.

Long before formal mathematics, builders learned to recognize what held and what failed. From that work came consistent patterns of proportion, orientation, and motion. Over time, those patterns were organized into geometry.

Early writings about Freemasonry often connect the craft to discoveries made by working builders. Through observation of tools, structures, and the natural world, craftsmen encountered consistent patterns of proportion, alignment, and stability. Over time, these practical insights were organized into the language of geometry and preserved within the traditions of the craft.

Writers such as James Anderson and Thomas Paine both describe this progression in different ways. Their accounts suggest that the knowledge associated with Masonry emerged from the practical work of building—where observation, mechanism, and measurement revealed the underlying order that governs stable design.