Candidates for regular Freemasonry are required to declare a belief in a Supreme Being However the candidate is not asked to expand on or explain his interpretation of Supreme Being The discussion of politics and religion is forbidden within a Masonic Lodge in part so a Mason will not be placed in the situation of having to justify his personal interpretation Thus reference to the Supreme Being can mean the Christian Trinity to a Christian Mason Allah to a Muslim Mason Para Brahman to a Hindu Mason etc While most Freemasons would take the view that the term Supreme Being equates to God others may hold a more complex or philosophical interpretation of the term In the ritual the Supreme Being is referred to as the Great Architect of the Universe which alludes to the use of architectural symbolism within Freemasonry