Masonic Charity helps Greater Manchester Scouts prepare for World Jamboree
Masonic Charity helps Greater Manchester Scouts prepare for World Jamboree
Promoting the Fraternity across the World
Masonic Charity helps Greater Manchester Scouts prepare for World Jamboree
That purely material gains can never represent the final goal in the progress and development of mankind must have been recognised as fundamental truth ever since primitive man first began to turn his thoughts from such considerations as food, shelter and physical comfort generally to that limitless and fruitful field of speculative thought which Freemasonry names the hidden mysteries of nature and science.
We are going to venture into the realm of the eagle ‑ one of the most magnificent and awesome creatures of God’s creation.
It is often said that symbolism is carried too far and this is difficult to deny when I think of Freud and other psychiatrists and psychologists who seem able to find strange and often erotic meanings in all they see. The meanings given to every image based on repetition makes the lay-person feel at a serious disadvantage when they wish to contradict anything that is given a meaning by such “Specialists.” The symbolic object, which is dredged up by the mind, seems to have no great pattern of consistency in the case of psychiatric symbol definition.