Saturday, August 15, 2015

The Sine of Masonry (Conclusion)

By Sir Knight Thomas J. Driber, Ph.D.
Excerpted from an article in the Knight Templar Magazine, August, 2015  for educational purposes.

Builders

So one may ask, what does all this mean and why is this important?  The answer lies in the question of whether or not we are Masons .... So then, what is a Mason?  insofar as we claim the Operative Masons as our "ancient brethren" we must define ourselves according to what our ancient brethren were.  They were builders.  They built cathedrals, convents, shrines, priories, etc.  They built or created something where before there was nothing other than raw materials.  As such we can say that they were builders, and builders are in this world, creators.  As we do not build with brick and mortar, we are now speculative Masons or philosophical Masons, building a corpus of moral science upon which to guide our lives.  Simply put, we are thinking Masons who are building in the vanguard of creation, expanding the universe through our thoughts and actions.  In this regard we are the light after which we incessantly week, creating as in the beginning, in the present, and in the future which is now.

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