Should I Ask?

But it is perhaps not as well known that many leaders in the professions, arts and sciences and other humn endeavors benefitting the world have been members of the Masonic Fraternity. A few names that come to mind are:

Writers: Walter Scott, Robert Burns, Rudyard Kipling and Mark Twain
Poet-playwrights: Wassily I. Maikow, Heinrich Heine, Jean P.C. de Florian, Leopoldo Lugoner and Antonio de Castro Alves.
Musicians: Wolfgang Mozart, Jean Sibelius, Franz von Liszt, Josef Hayden
Philosophers: Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Gotthold E. Lessing and Francois Voltaire
Medicine: Dr. Alexander Fleming, Jules Bordet, Antoine DePage, Edward Jenner, Charles and William Mayo
Sculptor: Gutzon Borglum
Artists: Charles W. Peale and Alfons M. Mucha
Scientists: Hans C. Orsted, Jons Jakob Frk. von Berzelius, Alfred Edmund Brehm, Luther Burbank, Johan Ernst Gunnerus, Albert Abraham Michelson, Gaspard Monge, C.F.S. Hahnemann and Pedro N. Arata
Labor: Samuel Gompers
Industrialists and commerce leaders: Henry Ford, Walter P. Chrysler, John Wanamaker, S.S. Kresge and J.C. Penney.

Many others prominent yesterday and today in these and other fields, such as the law, religion, space exploration, news media, sports and entertainment, have a common bond to Freemasonry.

The First Step

For the man who is looking for deeper meaning in life and who wants to part of a fraternity comitted to his growth and improvement, Masonry is filled with marvelous opportunities and limitless possibilities.

The first step in Masonry is one a man must take himself. He must say, "I want to become a Mason." What follows will be thrilling, exciting and extremely worthwhile.

"Should I ask?" That is the one important question. The answer is up to you.

The preceding was originally published in print form by the Supreme Coucil, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction for the benefit of Freemasonry. It has been reformated for the Web, but all content has been left unchanged.

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Last Update March 17, 2000