A brief word from the Worshipful Master:

The men of Dover Lodge are indeed a hard-working band of Brothers. Many of us give so much of our time, our money and our devotion to what from the street seems like a plain building. But there is something bigger inside those walls: something that the world seeks but does not comprehend. I ran across an excerpt from an article by Worshipful Brother Shawn Eyer in the Fall 2011 Philalethes Journal that describes perfectly why we do what we do. Have a read, dear Brethren of Dover Lodge – I think you’ll see in these words the noble battle we’ve fought.

Curious reader, what are you seeking? Are you wondering what Freemasonry offers? Then YOU must make the first step.

We know that, today, a much larger percentage of our initiates come to us seeking indeed to ‘steer by a mystic star,’ to make a connection with something venerable and true, and – amid a culture that seems to be in a race to discover the most empty, superficial, and nihilistic manner of life known to human history – they come to us seeking to fathom something true, authentic, mysterious, transformative, and even sacred.

They most assuredly do NOT, as is sometimes claimed on thir behalf, seek a dumbed-down or diluted form of Freemasonry. So many other things in their world are already dumbed-down and diluted. They come to us instinctively seeking a change from that. Men who approach our temple today sense, viscerally, that Freemasonry can link them to a life beyond the empty careerism on the one hand and perpetual adolescence on the other that our society so urgently recommends them.”