It was tragic to see. Poor Brother Boyd had that ‘rabbit caught in headlights’ look as he stood in the middle of the lodge and tried to answer his Questions After Raising. We’ve all been there.

Had his nerves given out? No. Had he gone totally blank? No. Did he skimp on the preparation for the Questions? Far from it. He had fallen into the trap that so many young masons fall into. A trap that they always fall into only once.

As the saying goes, ‘the quality of your information is dependent upon the quality of your source’. Bro Boyd, rather than study his little black book, had turned to the Internet to find the answers. I’m sure he would have done a superlative job had he been standing in the USA. But, last night, as he stood before his brothers in a Western Australian lodge, his perfect knowledge of the answers to a completely different set of questions aided him not.

Cheer up Bro. It’s a rite of passage for many of our younger members. And you, are now, one of us.