Given the nature of our meeting and our discussions, Freemasons and the Declaration of Independence were a topic of interest. During the Revolutionary era, notable Masons included George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, James Otis, and Paul Revere. While individual Freemasons actively took part in the American Revolution, Freemasonry, as an institution and its local lodges, remained politically neutral.
Truly we cover a wide list of subjects Vince brought to our attention the following quote:
Don't only practice your art but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
We spent some time trying to analyse this sentence.
Could we apply this to our Freemasonry?
We believed we could and is not Freemasonry an ART?.
We then got to how to pronounce words and how differing languages and dialects sounded vowels and consonants. What about the word fidelity is it fid elity or fie delity According to the website howsay the correct pronunciation is fidelity. From last issue the word Tau, also according to Howsay it is touw not tor.
I tell you there is much learning happening at our meetings. Brother Jeffery told us that he has a folio of Poetical Writings “Dies Irae- Requiem for a lost soul in Understanding Dominic".
Vince opened a can of worms by bringing up the concept of trinity, how it relates to us, and its role in Freemasonry. I will try to discuss this concept at some length, but I immediately thought of the Christian concept.
We then discussed Education, our Ritual tells us that learning started in the East and spread to the West. Our ritual tells us to learn the seven liberal arts and sciences, I would imagine the reader would be familiar with these they are seven in number and were the subjects of secular education in the Middle Ages and Renaissance but were codified in late Roman antiquity.
For the benefit of our two guests, we hope, new members. We spoke on the old masonic manuscripts that are important in the study of the emergence of Freemasonry.
