I have read in MANY articles written by Freemasons that the your meetings are so boring and the only things that you discuss are meeting minutes, potential candidates, and bills to pay. If this is so, why is a secret password and handshake necessary to enter the Lodge?
This is like placing security cameras on an abandoned building, it makes no sense to me?
Please educate me as to why this is so.
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There is no handshake or password to get into Lodge. You get into Lodge by being a Freemason, which you demonstrate by having a valid dues card in your possession.
The handshakes, or grips as they are known, and passwords, are part of the ritual entailed in becoming a Mason, not a key in and of themselves to get into a Lodge. They exist today simply as a tradition, and as symbols of the actual secrets and seals of fidelity once held by the trade guilds. It’s not that complicated.
there are no secret handshakes and passwords; they will not get you into a Lodge.
you need a dues card…
so i guess your question is rather moot now, isn’t it?
in case you’re going to ask, you need a dues card to prove you are a member; only members are allowed to attend the meetings.
before there were dues cards there were handshakes and grips for the same reason, only members are allowed to attend the meetings.
you don’t allow just any stranger to wander in to your house; you can’t just walk backstage at a concert….
its called privacy.
it is very different than secrecy.