You take an oath not to reveal the secrets of Freemasonry. Quite frankly though, you can find those secrets if you find a lodge ceremony book at used book store. A friend of mine found one recently. 50 bucks hahaha. Kind of careless of a mason to let a book wind up there, but, it is what it is.

That said though, there's many things you won't understand outside of a lodge, even with a book. Or, maybe you would.

The oath is also symbolic of various things, but I can't get into that.

As for following the Bible, no. Freemasonry is not a Christian organization. The Knights Templar is, but not the Blue Lodge. You can be Buhddist, Hindu, Christian, Muslim, and be a part of the lodge. We believe "Holy texts" are pieces of a puzzle. The only requirement is that you acknowledge and believe in some higher power which organizes the universe. I don't subscribe to a religion, but I can indeed see two forces at play in our world: order, and disorder. They are both creative forces, but seek different things. As a being created out of order, I seek order, and seek to create more order. I believe in evolutionary theory, and do not believe in any "diety". And yet, there does appear to be a "grand architect of the universe" as we masons say. A force which organizes everything, against a force which disorganizes everything, at least from our perspective.

Here's a fun question to ponder: does our planet have consciousness? It created life. It grows, changes, heals it's self. It can respond to disease, or cataclysm. What would happen if we stopped getting along with it? Would it create a circumstance where our species would die off? And then would it create a new species?

The next question is, if our planet is a supreme form of life, and is conscious, how did it become that way? These are of course debatable. But they're fun seeds for thought. :)

You take an oath not to reveal the secrets of Freemasonry. Quite frankly though, you can find those secrets if you find a lodge ceremony book at used book store. A friend of mine found one recently. 50 bucks hahaha. Kind of careless of a mason to let a book wind up there, but, it is what it is.

That said though, there many things you won't understand outside of a lodge, even with a book. Or, maybe you would.

The oath is also symbolic of various things, but I can't get into that.

As for following the Bible, no. Freemasonry is not a Christian organization. The Knights Templar is, but not the Blue Lodge. You can be Buhddist, Hindu, Christian, Muslim, and be a part of the lodge. We believe "Holy texts" are pieces of a puzzle. The only requirement is that you acknowledge and believe in some higher power which organizes the universe. I don't subscribe to a religion, but I can indeed see two forces at play in our world: order, and disorder. They are both creative forces, but seek different things. As a being created out of order, I seek order, and seek to create more order. I believe in evolutionary theory, and do not believe in any "diety". And yet, there does appear to be a "grand architect of the universe" as we masons say. A force which organizes everything, against a force which disorganizes everything, at least from our perspective.

Here's a fun question to ponder: does our planet have consciousness? It created life. It grows, changes, heals it's self. It can respond to disease, or cataclysm. What would happen if we stopped getting along with it? Would it create a circumstance where our species would die off? And then would it create a new species?

The next question is, if our planet is a supreme form of life, and is conscious, how did it become that way? These are of course debatable. But they're fun seeds for thought. :)

You take an oath not to reveal the secrets of Freemasonry. Quite frankly though, you can find those secrets if you find a lodge ceremony book at used book store. A friend of mine found one recently. 50 bucks hahaha. Kind of careless of a mason to let a book wind up there, but, it is what it is.

The oath is also symbolic of various things, but I can't get into that.

As for following the Bible, no. Freemasonry is not a Christian organization. The Knights Templar is, but not the Blue Lodge. You can be Buhddist, Hindu, Christian, Muslim, and be a part of the lodge. We believe "Holy texts" are pieces of a puzzle. The only requirement is that you acknowledge and believe in some higher power which organizes the universe. I don't subscribe to a religion, but I can indeed see two forces at play in our world: order, and disorder. They are both creative forces, but seek different things. As a being created out of order, I seek order, and seek to create more order. I believe in evolutionary theory, and do not believe in any "diety". And yet, there does appear to be a "grand architect of the universe" as we masons say. A force which organizes everything, against a force which disorganizes everything, at least from our perspective.

Here's a fun question to ponder: does our planet have consciousness? It created life. It grows, changes, heals it's self. It can respond to disease, or cataclysm. What would happen if we stopped getting along with it? Would it create a circumstance where our species would die off? And then would it create a new species?

The next question is, if our planet is a supreme form of life, and is conscious, how did it become that way? These are of course debatable. But they're fun seeds for thought. :)