A Questant or Quester, a term used by Shakespeare, is one who seeks after anything, a Candidate.
The word Candidate is derived from the Latin Candidates, from Candidus " white " (so called because at Rome, the applicant used to dress in white) — white being the emblem of purity, of unblemished, untrammelled intention, the emblem of an open, unbiassed mind, ready and earnestly desiring the pure waters of truth from the eternal source of all knowledge.
A Candidate for Freemasonry is really a Mason " in his heart " only if he fulfils these qualifications.
