Promoting the Fraternity across the World
On Monday 3rd December, Brethren from Broadsmith Lodge No 3593 accompanied by WBro Jeffrey Cunningham, PProvJGW, APGM Area One, dropped into the Cancer Research UK shop at Moreton to present a cheque in the sum of £2,500.
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.
AS EMBLEMATIC FREEMASONRY is the Craft of Building moralized, it follows that intellectually, at least, our figurative and speculative art has arisen out of the Operative
Even the best-informed don’t know all about Masonry. The best-informed electricians do not know all about electricity; the best-informed astronomers do not know all about astronomy; the best-informed geologists do not know all about geology. We have much to learn
While much of the “uninstructed and popular world who are not Freemasons” (words from the 2nd Degree) do not realise just how much is raised behind…
