Freemasonry is the world’s oldest networking organization. It operates as a fraternity for men with the primary purpose of fellowship and building men of character. Centre Lodge has existed for nearly 200 years to allow men to know others that they might not otherwise know. The Free and Accepted Masons, or just Masonic Lodge, is the world’s oldest man’s fraternity and you will find its organizations, called Lodges, all across the World.
Requirements: Any man can be a Mason as long as he is of legal age and comes well recommended. Those with interest will be welcomed by a small committee who will talk with him about Masonry. The committee will then recommend the candidate to the Lodge upon the candidate’s signing of a membership petition.
Historic origins of modern Freemasonry can be traced to the stonemasons guilds that formed during the Middle Ages in Europe. Guilds were developed to train men in skills needed to construct magnificent cathedrals and castles. Over time, these guilds allowed some who were not actual stone masons to join their ranks, known likely as “admitted” or “accepted” masons. Men of thought were drawn to the idea of creating cathedrals of men – character, balance, and a spiritual belief in something beyond what we see on earth. By the 1700s the Grand Lodge, or association of four principle lodges of Freemasonry, was founded in England.* (an excellent source of information about Masonry and its history is the book, Freemasons for Dummies, by Indiana Mason Christopher Hodapp, Past Master of an Indianapolis Lodge)
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