LOOKING MASONRY IN THE EYE

Is there anything about freemasonry that is not compelling because if there is, I haven't found it yet. I have the sense for hundreds of years, we have been scratching the surface.  Will you help me figure this out?  I have this voice in my head telling me this is a great idea and another voice telling me this ridiculous.  Drilling into the Order will either validate or not, what we know to this point.  I wonder that the very work of exploration may be our greatest challenge.  I don't know who said it but I love it:  In exploration, there needs to be people who have no rules. Can you think of something as daunting as the risk of ostracism by brethren? At least you would have interesting company; the diaspora, avoiding conflict, resisting politics, seeking solitude.  So let's collectively  and more closely examine this enigma. Isn't defining freemasonry as a 21st-century enigma a bit audacious?   Compressed into a form of secret signs and unique experience, it feels as if all answers but the 'right' answer are trouble. The right answer? Well that's fluid as rain. Especially since we are so accepting, the fear factor will be to become enthusiastic about learning from failure.   It won't be for the first time.  Alchemists paved that path for us already.  

If we concern ourselves with the forces that formed freemasonry- the compelling appetite for art, the need for science, for sure the optics are going to change. To my mind, a preoccupation with buildings is done. We need to look at why we built it in the first place.  The joke is freemasons don't like change. Imagine that!   Join us at MasonicFX and we'll try to make sense of the unimaginable.  Graham