What is Freemasonry and how can I join?
There have been a great number of definitions of Freemasonry. Perhaps the best, and certainly the simplest, is Freemasonry is the largest and oldest fraternity in the world. Anywhere in the free world, Masonic Lodges may be found. Freemasonry is a system based on morality, veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols. The idea of teaching by allegories and symbols is not new. All great teachers have, more or less, followed this method. The system of morality, referred to as Freemasonry, is that which every Freemason is bound to profess and practice. If it includes principles with which he was familiar before his entrance into Freemasonry, he will nevertheless find these presented in new ways and in forms different from those with which he was previously familiar. If he finds in Masonic teachings nothing startlingly new, he must remember that, in some respects at least, there is nothing new under the sun and that the essence of morality is to be found in the utter simplicity (though no
