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The symbols were always there.
The method was lost.

A Mason's Work restores the operative method behind Freemasonry's symbolism, a disciplined practice of Awareness, Reflection, Analysis, and Action (ARAA) that turns symbolic instruction into lived conduct.

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The Author

Brian T. Mattocks

3x Past Master in Pennsylvania and Vice Chair of the Pennsylvania Academy of Masonic Knowledge. A Mason's Work is his first book. It came out of years of lodge work, teaching, and the conviction that the symbols were always meant to be used.

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Lodge Attendance Increase

"This is what I thought Freemasonry actually was when I petitioned. Twenty years later, I finally have a method."

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J.W.M., Past Master · Pennsylvania

"I wish I had this when I was raised. The symbols were there. I just had no idea what to do with them."

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P.G., Master Mason · Ohio

"Thirty years in the Craft and this is the first time anyone has explained what we're actually supposed to do with any of it."

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D.L., 32° · Scottish Rite

"Every lodge should put this in the hands of every new brother on the night they're raised."

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R.T., Junior Warden · Virginia

"The ARAA framework is the thing I didn't know I was looking for. It finally makes the work feel like work."

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B.H., Fellow Craft · New York

"Finally, a practical answer to the question every Mason asks but nobody in the lodge will touch."

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C.M., Past Master · Maryland

"We went from 8 brothers showing up to over 50 after we started using the Operative Framework in our lodge education nights. I didn't think that was possible."

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W.M., Lodge No. 144 · Pennsylvania

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