Personal experience of Masonic education funding frames modern Freemasonry chiefly as a business network and charitable association. Its education trust supports study and helps the families of members. That mutual-aid function is traced to working masons whose cathedral and castle construction exposed them to serious injury or death. If a member could no longer provide for a household, fellow members were expected to help the family. The institution served as a form of occupational insurance as well as a society with private ceremonies.
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Freemasonry linked charitable education to occupational mutual aid
Freemasonry's charitable education work is traced to mutual support among workers in dangerous building trades.