more light #264
Into the Lives of Others
by Ed Halpaus
Grand Lodge Education Officer
Grand Lodge of A. F. & A. M. of Minnesota
Dear Masonic Student,
Now here is this weeks More Light Masonic
message. It comes from the book “Rays of Masonry by M.W. Brother Dewey H.
Wollstein: Some have asked who Brother Wollstein was. Well, besides being a very
good Masonic Writer he was for quite some time the editor of the Masonic
Messenger and Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Georgia. Below is an
article from his book “Rays of Masonry.”
Into The Lives Of Others
“All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.”
In words, symbols, and allegory, Masonry stresses this great truth.
Masonry is the science of morality, and through the study of right-living,
establishes its high purpose of making men “wiser, better, and consequently
happier.”
But let us forever keep in mind that the sending out works two ways. Good
begets good and evil begets evil. The reaping is the direct result of the
sowing.
There is the choice of materials offered the candidate as he stands in the
northeast corner of the lodge and with it he has the right to choose that which
disappears as a shadow or that which defies the onslaught of time. The erected
edifice is the direct result of the materials that he sent out for the
construction of the Temple.
Is not Masonry in truth then a Moral Science?
“Light-hearted” means free from anxiety—the sending out of those things which
will not come back as burdensome regrets and which will bind the heart and
conscience.
Take it the other way. To send out burdens of hate into the lives of others
is to carry around with us the chains of oppression.
What do we seek in a “foreign country?” That which is the source of all good,
that which will be safe to send out because its reappearance in our own lives
will carry with it The Blessings of Heaven.
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