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Petitions are available at the Tooele Masonic Temple.

After the petition has been submitted it will be read at the next regular business meeting, and an investigative committee will be assigned. As ominous as this sounds, it is in reality quite harmless. The “Committee” consisting of 3 Masons simply wants to meet with you and discuss your interests in Freemasonry, and get a better feeling of who you are. This typically takes place at your house, but can happen over coffee, lunch, or even at the Masonic Temple itself. The Committee will contact you and will work out the arrangements for time and place.

The committee is not interested in your tax returns, your political leanings, or religious affiliations, and to ensure that you believe in a Supreme Being. To make these determinations the committee requires no other proof than your say so, and will not make extensive credit checks, or investigate your religious affiliations.

More to the point they will be most interested in what you know about Masonry and what it is you hope to find in our Lodge.

The Investigative Committee will then make a report to the Lodge that you do or do not meet the requirements to be made a Freemason. At this time the Lodge will vote to determine if you will or will not receive the Degrees of Freemasonry.

• You must believe in a Supreme Being
• You must be a man, of 18 years of age.
• You must be of good social, and moral character
• You must have lived in Utah for 6 months.
• You must know a Mason who has known you for six months.
• You must ASK one, to become one!

Of Conduct

Freemasons are expected to exhibit the utmost tolerance and gentlemanly conduct both in “Lodge” (the meeting place of, and the name for, a gathering of Freemasons) and in their daily lives. In the course of the Degrees Freemasons obligate themselves to a conduct of wise living, seeking to cultivate an honorable or virtuous character as individuals. Overt honesty, compassion, fortitude, prudence, justice, and the pursuit of set of philosophical truths are the hallmarks of a Freemason. Thus Freemasons must steel themselves to inculcate, practice, and exemplify these virtues throughout all the transactions of life. The mark of a Freemason is their discipline in character and their dedication to further pursuit of Masonic Light.

Of Cost

There are two costs associated with Masonry. The first cost is dues; all members of the Lodge pay annual which varies by location. Dues cover the annual operating expenses of the Lodge. The second cost is Degrees; in the progress from Entered Apprentice to Master Mason one will pay monies again varying by location, to cover the cost of materials received by the Candidate: apron, study guides, copy of Lodge bylaws, traveling warrant, and heirloom volume of sacred law.

The Degree costs in Rocky Mountain Lodge #11 are:

• Entered Apprentice - $50.00 (due with petition)
• Fellow Craft - $25.00
• Master Mason - $25.00

The annual dues are $50.00.

Of Beliefs

The Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons requires that all men applying for membership declare a belief in a Supreme Being because belief in God is a foundation principal of the Fraternity.

It is accepted that people employ many different ways to seek and express what they know to be God - and Masonry believes that the relationship between the individual and his Supreme Being is personal, private, and sacred.

For the sake of Peace and Harmony, Masons are expressly barred from religious discussion while in Lodge.

Of Politics

Freemasons as a whole are not bound to any secular particular political ideology. However individual Masons may be bound to a political party, or ideology. When in Lodge, Masons are expressly forbidden from discussing secular politics.

Of Secret Societies

Freemasonry is often called a “secret society”, and in fact is considered by many to be the very prototype for such societies. Many Masons say that it is more accurately described as a society with secrets or Private Organization”. The degree of privacy varies widely around the world. In English-speaking countries, most Masons are completely public with their affiliation, Masonic buildings are clearly marked, and meeting times are generally a matter of public record. In other countries, where Freemasonry has been more recently, or is even currently, suppressed by the government, secrecy may be practiced more in earnest (again, depending greatly on the particular country).

Freemasonry uses an initiatory system of degrees, or morality plays, to teach lessons of, and explore ethical and philosophical issues surrounding, the moral principles Brotherly Love, Relief, and Truth. In these degrees, the observer knows beforehand nothing of what will happen. Because of this Freemasonry is also called by some an “esoteric art”.

At its most basic level, Freemasonry can be described as an institution of free men, dedicated to teaching, supporting, and propagating the ideas of Brotherly Love, Relief, and Truth.

A complete understanding of Freemasonry is diffcult, if not impossible to attain. It is a complex living tradition, of a non-dogmatic nature. Each Mason is likely to have a slightly different answer to the question “What is Freemasonry”. It is true that every Freemason has a similar experience of the Masonic Ritual, how each Mason uses the information is up to them.

Thus, some Masons are concerned with Charity and Philanthropy, some with Fraternity, and others with Philosophy.

The one idea that all Masons accept, is that Freemasonry itself is large enough to accomodate each kind of Mason. The diversity of Freemasonry is its strength. We are all bound together by our endeavors to polish and adorn our minds, bodies, and spirit in our pursuit for more light.

The square and compasses are displayed at all Masonic meetings, along with the open Volume of the Sacred Law (or Lore) (VSL). All constituient Lodges of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons of Utah use the Holy Bible, but this is not supposed to suggest the veneration of this work or associated belief systems over any other. It is a matter of simplicity only. During the actual course of the Degrees, most especially the Obligations, the Candidate is free to use whatever book(s) of inspiration or scripture that he feels he draws on�whether the Bible, the Koran, or other Volumes.

All Lodges under the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons of Utah, use the King James Bible as the VSL during their Regular Business, and in Opening and Closing a Lodge. However, if a Candidate for a Degree is not Christian, they may use their VSL upon which to take their Obligation.

Much of Masonic symbolism is mathematical in nature, and in particular geometrical, which is probably a reason Freemasonry has attracted so many rationalists (such as Voltaire, Fichte, Goethe, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Mark Twain and many others). No particular metaphysical theory is advanced by Freemasonry, however, although there seems to be some influence from the Pythagoreans, from Neo-Platonism, and from early modern Rationalism.

In keeping with the geometrical and architectural theme of Freemasonry, the Supreme Being (or God, or Creative Principle) is sometimes also referred to in Masonic ritual as the Grand Geometrician, or the Great Architect of the Universe (G.A.O.T.U.). Freemasons use a variety of labels for this concept in order to avoid the idea that they are talking about any one religion’s particular God or God-like concept.

There are three initial degrees of Freemasonry: 1� Entered Apprentice, 2� Fellow Craft and 3� Master Mason. One works through each degree by taking part in a ritual, essentially a medieval morality Play, in which one plays a role, along with members of the Lodge that one is joining. The setting is Biblical�the building of the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem�although the stories themselves are not directly from the Bible, and not intended to be necessarily Jewish or Christian in nature. Nothing supernatural happens in these stories. The Temple can be taken to represent the “temple” of the individual human being, that of the human community, or of the entire universe.

As one works through the degrees, one studies the lessons and interprets them for oneself. There are as many ways to interpret the rituals as there are Masons, and no Mason may dictate to any other Mason how he is to interpret them. No particular truths are espoused, but a common structure�speaking symbolically to universal human archetypes�provides for each Mason a means to come to his own answers to life’s important questions.

Our calendar has moved. Please see our calendar on the Utah State Masonic Calendar.

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Tooele, UT 84074

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