When Did You Become A Mason?
What made you a Mason? Where were you first prepared to be made a Mason? How were you prepared? Probably like most of us, if not all of us, these questions made no sense to me as a new EA. Starting out, they just seemed like random questions that were a part of an ancient tradition. They had no real meaning to me. Now, they actually make sense to me and, in various ways, have begun to form the way I think about Masonry and what it teaches me. Each of these questions are answered for the candidate, but in reality, these are questions that all of us should think about seriously. It was the moment I took my obligation that I "became a Mason"; but was it? That's what I thought at least when I became an EA. I repeated some words and was introduced to my brethren. Wasn't that what made me a Mason? It wasn't until quite a bit later that I realized the second question comes before the first chronologically. Where was I first prepared? This gave the first question a wh