Hey Ron! - Joining the Masons

Everybody asks me to help them become a Freemason but it’s not like joining Netflix. Our first 25 to 30 presidents were Masons. Mostly everybody in Congress is a Mason. And I’m like 90 percent sure our current president is a Mason. I’ve been an active Mason for about five years, inactive for about 12.

Before I would even think about inviting you to join the Masons, I would talk to you and see where your head is at and have you fill out an application. People might come by your job or come to your house and ask you a bunch of questions. They’ll check you out to make sure you’re not a gun smuggler, drug dealer, pedophile, or other stuff like that. Once your application is processed—it probably takes about two weeks—then you get brought in. Then what happens—not to get too into it—is you get blindfolded, and from that point on, you don’t know what’s going on. One thing I can tell you is that there’s no homosexuality involved at all.

Something people always get wrong about the Masons is that they think we don’t believe in God and the Bible. The Compass is set literally on top of the Bible. It’s set on a certain page, which I can’t divulge. There is an oath we take on the Bible, like the Presidential oath, or the one you do in court. We are founded, for as much as you can say, on the Bible.

And not all Freemasons are the same. For example, we wear different emblems. Everyone thinks it’s the Compass and the Square, but there are actually several. Prince Hall gets mostly minorities—blacks, Puerto Ricans, Jamaicans, Dominicans, or whatever. Not too many whites, but you do get a few. Some lodges, on the other hand, are all white. I’ve never been to one where they discriminated against race. Like if I happen to go to a white lodge, all I have to do is prove that I’m a Mason. I just can’t say, “I’m a Mason.” Once I get to the door, there’s a guard and I have to greet him a certain way and then he’ll know.

Being a Mason helps a lot, it’s gotten me well-connected because it’s all about who you know. One thing that we say is that you can know a Mason in the dark as well as the light. A blind man can tell you who’s a Mason, because of how we interact and how we greet one another. I’ve met Masons on the train, they were sitting down, and I went up and greeted them because of the way they sat and what they did when they were sitting. Two Masons could talk in front of you and you wouldn’t even know what they were talking about. That’s why you can’t just join. You have to be invited. Masonry is something I take very seriously.

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