Dear Son:
Your Mother and I were so very happy when you were born
over 18 years ago, what a joy it was for us.
As you have grown through the years, we have been very proud
of you. Ours has been a close relationship, we have attended many sports events,
vacations and other activities that have been a genuine pleasure to us.
During these years I'm sure that you remember on many occasions
my going to Masonic meetings. I related to you the many friends that I had made
down through the years, the enjoyment that I had experienced with them. The
principles taught in Freemasonry have made me a more caring and concerned person.
I've told you about the many charitable and benevolent activities
that I was able to share in like the Shriner's Hospitals for Crippled and Burned
Children, Knights Templar Eye Foundation, Scottish Rite Hospitals, financial
assistance to our members and families and the Masonic Home for Children.
Masonry does not solicit members, every man must come of his
own free will and accord, and so our membership is predicated on a request to
join and not an invitation to join. However, I would like to encourage you to
think about becoming a Mason.
We ask you only three simple questions for membership:
1. Do you believe in the existence of God?
2. Do you believe in the immortality of the Soul?
3. Do you believe in the resurrection of the Body?
Once you have asked me for a petition for membership and have
been accepted by unanimous ballot of the members, you will receive the Blue
Lodge Degrees (Entered Apprentice, Fellowcraft and Masters). Then you will be
eligible to join appendant or allied Masonic Bodies like the Scottish Rite,
York Rite and the Shrine.
I hope that you would like to be a part of this great worldwide
fraternal order, an institution founded on the principle tenets of Brotherly
Love, Relief and Truth.
Love,
Dad
A Mason is a man who professes a faith in God. As a man of faith, he uses the tools of moral and ethical truths to serve mankind.
A Mason binds himself to like-minded men in a Brotherhood that transcends all religious, ethnic, social, cultural, and educational differences.
In fellowship with his Brothers, a Mason finds ways in which to serve his God, his family, his fellowman, and his country.
A Mason is dedicated. He recognizes his responsibility for justice, truth, charity, enlightenment, freedom, and liberty, honesty and integrity in all aspects of human endeavor.
A Mason is such a man.