The Clergy and the Craft

The Clergy and the Craft

Freemasonry is the oldest fraternity in the world. Its membership totals more than 7 million men in South and Central America, North America, Europe, Australia, Asia, and Africa. These men share a common belief in a Supreme Being, a Master Architect who answers to any of "A Hundred and One Names." Most of these men are adherents, faithful leaders, followers and workers in Organized Religion, be it Christian, Hebrew, Buddhist, Moslem, Hindu, Brahmin, Zoraster, Shinto, Taoist, or Confucian. Forrest Haggard writes: "Many a man owes his beginning in depth of spiritual growth to the lodge. If this be an insult to Organized Religion--then let it stand as such. Rather it is a complement to the fraternity and to the Organized Religious body in which Masons may affiliate--Masonry has started them on their journey towards light and in their search they have found light in other places... Diversity, although causing some difficulty, is one strong illustration of what this author feels to be a fact: that if Masonry, as we know it, were to be totally destroyed by dictatorial forces, it would rise again for it comes out of the deep intent of man to form himself into a free association with others of like mind for self-improvement."

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