It contains sufficient self-evident truths within the body of the ritual for those who follow its precepts to make a satisfactory basis for the ‘good life’.
These truths may be veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols but they can provide good direction and guidance for living a godly and circumspect life.
Freemasonry, therefore, does not need a large body of doctrinal or ethical teaching, because it believes that—for the practical purpose of personal moral discipline and the Freemason’s quest for excellence—nothing more than the precepts it illustrates in its rituals is necessary as an essential framework.
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2002 - SECOND DEGREE, SECOND CLASS A second class second degree word - Bill Gibson.
