THE LOGICAL OUTCOME OF EVENTS

What does the future hold in store for Freemasonry?  Freemasonry will prevail. Of that, there is no question.  But it will not be in the form we know it today.  Today, our thinkers spent long hours considering the source of change. In an unguarded moment, over the centuries, our history has had effect perhaps most surprising of all.  We can trace our roots back 300 years. Our culture and philosophy links us to the greatest empires and remarkable thinkers. Threads fine as spiders web tie us with the strength of  a covalent bond to a powerful past. Our apprentices as good as they may become, face the challenge of brilliance.

And so the forces impacting on us today are forcing us to realize that we do not have popular appeal to refill our ranks. As smart as we are, we have not be able to solve the riddle of decline with answers that are not exactly wrong but so far, always incomplete.

We are fascinated by what is taking place. And when we ask ourselves why, we see effort that is mediocre, insufficient to satisfy the promise of excellence.  And they we stop. Isn't that a most remarkable thing!  

Great ideas cannot be killed deliberately or through negligence. History has taught us when great and powerful cultures have lost the ability to overcome their smugness, they have faded.  But not so, Freemasonry.  We, who are neurotically obsessed with the feeling we are sinking are coming to a point of realizing, it is not 'that we are doing anything wrong' it is that we are beginning to realize we must rely on ideas to make our culture successful.

What can we do within the limits that define us culturally? Main stream thinking doesn't seem to work.   What comes to my mind is a need to unlock secrets of that small core of exceptional thinkers with vision. Simple.