How do they get to be Masons?
Who chooses the men who become Masons? Who selects the candidates and asks
them to Join?
No One.
As a rule, no one is ever asked to become a Mason.
No one should wait to be asked.
Some men who would like to become Masons never do because they do not know this.
They wait for someone to ask them, and no one does.
A man who wants to become a Mason asks for an application (petition) from the Mason
he knows best, - a relative, friend, or acquaintance. That Mason proposes him in his own
Lodge or arranges to have him proposed in another. If an investigating committee reports
favorably, and the applicant passes a unanimous ballot in the Lodge, he then participates
in three ceremonies, - the three degrees of the Lodge - and may sign the by-laws and
become a member.