SECRETS OF MASONIC PILGRIMAGE

The Creator is without form, beyond mind. I cannot describe what I cannot fully understanding.  The Creator must be without gender, without malice, forgiving judgment; hope when there is despair; a source of strength to overcome. To aid me connect and be a presence in my life the Creator takes on a clumsy form that my limited mind will understand. My language, my custom, my culture is that of the Creator; infallible perfection. A life from the Creator, lived for the Creator with the free will, I make choices, live, learn and leave this earthly plane. If the VSL holds great meaning, then is the lodge a spritual experience that has been culturally repressed?

When we  once searched for Prester John,  we followed a path of discovery that apparantly has not stopped. It is not surprising that we have lost this perspective.  What is surprising is how readily we were to think it was lost forever. We have ritual followed to create a lodge. I think, the reason was not to conduct anything that is dispassionate business, superficial. It was to create a unique space where we can get into a pure state of mind; for a moment, a leaving behind of ritual that teaches little to enter a space where discovering the spirit of masonry is possible. We repeat this pilgrimage to follow Sirius, the star from the east.  So have we lost this? 

It took either above average intelligence or luck but we stepped over the wreakage of religion and masonry espoused a life style of ethics.  This happened over hundreds of years. I'm thinking it came to those who were contemplative and gradually put form to a concept. We like to flatter ourselves that the Order 'has lost it's greatness'.  But there is no evidence to the contrary; no evidence.  It makes me wonder 'we' are the connection with the antients. If we are the antients are we masonry?