Consider the following statement I came across recently, purporting to set out the aims of Freemasonry.
Freemasons belong to an organisation, which ought to be dedicated to self-knowledge, the nature of being, tolerance, the brotherhood of man and liberty of conscience, and perhaps on the way, a brush with the Deity.
Is this, in fact, what we are, or have we become bogged down in the mechanics of the system, more concerned with promotion to higher rank, with endless discussions about procedures, and the parroting, without meaning, of what, in itself, is a very meaningful ritual?
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2006 - A Daily Advancement in Masonic Knowledge - Bro Roy Evans.
