YOU ARE MASONRY
What is Masonry? Let us for the moment lay aside the general definitions.
Let us even ignore for the moment our own conception of our time-honored
Institution.
There is a great Temple under construction. Men are busy and have been busy
for centuries in the erection of this magnificent edifice. Let us call it
the Temple of Life. There is a beauty beyond the power of words to express.
There is a sacred atmosphere that inspires every worker to do more than his
share of the work. There is work, but it is not the burdensome toil of the
slave. Every worker is a king in his own right. There is a communism of
character. All men working together, each for the good of all. What will
mar the tranquility of this scene? Just the fact that men are always
looking forward to a greater beauty than they know at the present. They
seek a Finished Beauty. The quest is in vain. Today is the only victory on
the morrow that he has not achieved today. Then the awful tragedy. The day
when there are no designs upon the trestleboard. Man's inhumanity to God
has caused the work to cease. The spirit is killed. The beauty that was
there is now cold and without form.
Who is responsible for the darkness that now covers the Temple of Life? I
am to blame. You are to blame. We failed to see that the Spirit was in the
building of the Temple, not in the completed edifice.
The Spirit of Masonry is in the Mason.
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