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What compels a man to study a philosophy of life that is daunting and exposes him to ridicule? Is the opportunity to thrive, to accept the mindfulness of an ethical, principled value system so compelling? It is a calling only heard by true masons.
In a way the true mason exists by potential alone; before he is tested and before we accept him. Then each day, the potentials wake to their active lives as honest, good people who walk among us anonymously. Like drops of water, many slip bye. With the odds of a lightning strike the few meet a true mason. The true mason reveals within proper form, that the laboratories and libraries of thought that have withstood the test of time do actually exist.
Controversial, obscure and priceless, freemasonry becomes a journey as much as writing a symphony is a journey. It is not that a man must become a man of letters, but as he mentally matures he respects great minds well enough to sense authenticity, well enough to live according to science.. A freemason uses his capacity to reason, to discover, to know. Thomas Paines Common Sense becomes his bedside reading. He surrounds himself with the works of Plato, Pythagoras, Aristotle, Seneca, Aquinas, Descartes, Kant, Pope, Shakespeare, Montaigne...
And when he has been at his task for a number of years and other true masons see as he walks he leaves a barely imperceptible footprint through life when he looks in the mirror he smiles, unable to reconcile his enthusiasm for life with the expectations that age should be decline. All of a sudden he has a moment of insight.
Do you know one when you see one?
