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HE WHO DESIRES to understand the harmonious and beautiful proportions of Freemasonry must read, reflect, study, digest, and discriminate. Freemasonry is the succession of allegories, the vehicles of great lessons in morality and philosophy which you will find to constitute a great, complete, and harmonious system. Be faithful to Masonry, which is to be faithful to the best interest of mankind. Labour, by precept and example, to elevate the standard of Masonic character, to enlarge its sphere of influence, to popularize its teachings, and to make all men know it for the Great Apostle of Peace, Harmony, and Goodwill on earth among men; of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity.
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During the darkest days of the last war when Britain, downcast and desparate, stood alone to fight a ruthless enemy, His Majesty the King used a quotation, till then hardly known.
"And I said to the man at the gate of the year;
'Give a light that I may tread safely
into the unknown.' And he replied,
'Go out into the darkness and put thine hand
into the Hand of God. This shall be to thee
better than light and safer than a known way'."
In that quotation lies the philosophy of our faith and the belief in Him who has guided our destinies, and in the fulfillment of which may we hope to continue to build a civilization stronger and better - one in which the great Masonic principles of brotherly love and universal peace will ever prevail. Imagine ...
W.Bro. C.S. Laurie Lund, Lodge Historian
1998-2007
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