Salary to a free mason is provided by the freemasonry. There are various benefits, which are provided to the freemason as well as to their family. There is a grant, which provides financial help to the freemason also. The details are as follows:

• They provide the Masonic relief grant available up to £7,000.00 which can be less but not more than this.
• This grant is intended to last maximum for one year.

BENEFITS:

• Freemason can ask for charity when they are financially weak up to £7,000.00
• Pension credit benefit

Freemasons are the members of a certain class who are skilled in the work of stones. They are not connected with the building trades but they are supposed to be eminent for architectural and antiquarian learning. They travel from one place to another place, find employment wherever important buildings are building and these buildings have some secret signs and passwords by which a craftsman proves his competent skill and he will be recognized by the other freemason. Each of them has the knowledge of these secret signs and passwords.

Freemasonry is the group of people who has belief and practices and they are linked with national organizations, which are open only for the men whose age starts from 21 years and these men are united by their traditional secrets. They are also having some common codes for there morals. This society is not the society of secrets in fact it is a society with secrets. Fraternal organization is the freemasonry, which arose in late 16^th to early 17^th century from the hidden origin. The modern freemasonry began in 18^th century in Europe. This fraternity has its own independent administrations and each of which is governed by its jurisdiction. They had a membership of six million people. Freemasonry now exists in different forms in all over world. Freemasons believe in god and they call the god by the name of the Great Architect of the Universe. The meaning of the word freemason is the person who belongs to the highest class working in freestone. In 1717 there is the formation of the first grand lodge or the governing body in London they present the order accepted and freemason-accepted mason. In 18^th century it spread from Britain to the USA, continental Europe. It also spread in France and in other European countries. In 1980s Italy freemasonic lodge was involved in political issues. They do not discuss any religion or the politics with anyone, as these are the conflicting points for the discussion. Freemasons are the one who do not discuss their religion or their politics to anyone, as it can be issue due to which conflicts can arise. Freemasons are known for charitable work, and are socially aware but are known to be in bad lights, due to their gender exclusivity (biased towards male dominance), and their misuse use of power within the organizations to enhance and improve each other’s gains.

The career options for the freemason are very bright. They have the knowledge of symbols or ranks, philosophical knowledge and also have intellectual knowledge. The freemason must do the following things during his career:

• The freemason or the mentor is the one who assists the entire apprentice and help them to answer the required question for advancing them to the next level of their degree with his proficiency.
• Freemason plays the key role to educate the people, the standards are set by the masonry and each mason have to follow those standards and work according to those standards only and masonry also provides various means by which these standards can be achieved. Freemason is the principal facilitator of those means, which are set by the masonry.
• Qualified freemasons are the one who always encouraged the masonry to provide the instructions of the masonry and he is responsible for giving the presentations to their other brothers, he also answers the queries from them and he also promotes the discussion
• Freemason has a good career opportunity in the field of philosophy, history and organization.

There are certain roles and responsibilities imposed upon the mason on entering into the craft. As the progression in the degrees of the mason the responsibilities on his shoulders increases which encourages him to live an exemplary life. First of all the mason has to fulfill all these roles or duties after that he lays down the foundation of all Masonic responsibility.

In the context of mason duties the following things are described in the catholic dictionary:

• The meaning of the duty is to do or omit something. The meaning of these two words do and omit will be understood in the following way.
• For the person the meaning of the duty is that he is thankful to his job.
• He does his duty sincerely and honestly, that means that the person does the thing he is grateful and thankful to do.

 The duties and the responsibilities of freemason in more details

Masonry is not the religion but the mason is a religion. The mason believes in god and he acknowledges the god before his every creation. Everything, which happens in masonry, is having the reference to the god. It represents the god, speaks to god, it points and leads us to god. Every lodge is made for god and it is made for the god only. Each mason enters in a lodge with the faith and trust in the god. It is also said that the freemason is a godly man. He believes and totally trusts in god. This thing is taught to a mason that before starting the work it is necessary to take the name of the god and never start an important work without the blessing of the deity.

The main thing, which should be reminded by each mason that he has to love and respect his brother without considering the religion, race and creed. You should behave in the same manner to your neighbor, as you want he should behave to you. Symbolically a lodge is extended to:

• East to west in length.
• North to south in breadth.
• From the earth to the highest heavens in height.
• From surface to the centre in the depth.

Respect yourself and other will respect you. Before loving your neighbor it is necessary that you have to love yourself otherwise you are not able to love others. Love meaning that we have to set an example in front of others so for this we must have inner peace and power to hold ourselves in the high esteems. This thing must be taken under consideration that the great architect called god watches all our actions.

• RESPONSIBILITY TO LODGE:

The responsibility towards the lodge is to put the mason in the ancient charges. Everyone has the responsibility toward the lodge to which he belongs. But many of them are not interested in taking the responsibility of the lodge, which is very sad. It is necessary to attend all the meetings in the lodge. He is supposed to take care of the lodge by any means and no reason is enough for him to leave the lodge.

This freemasonry is also practiced in many of the countries. In freemasonry people are taught and education is given in symbols or in ranks, for their philosophical and the intellectual development. Various rites are practiced in the freemasonry with the variety of the degrees but the US lodges have the three types of degrees that are given which are:

• Related to Fellow Craft
• Related to Entered Apprentice,
• Related to Master mason

Studying the Masonic symbols, organization and history it can be exciting and interesting. The goals of this study is to teach the valuable lessons the real experience of someone’s own life will help the other person to use it in his own daily actions. If this is to be approached with the humility, open mind make the persons a better man or a gentleman, and he makes his family a better one and also become a responsible citizen for the country. The following skills are needed for a good mason…

• Self confident
• Leadership quality
• Effective communication
• Ready to help anybody at anytime
• Qualification of a petitioner
• The secret ballot
• Mentorship

There are certain other requirements for being a freemason. They are as follows:

• Only man can join it and he must have the free will to join it.
• He must believe in supreme being
• Be at least the minimum age of 18 to 25 years depends on the jurisdiction.
• Must have good moral and good reputation.
• Be free born.
• Must be able to form character reference.