Halcion Days: The Myth That Preserves Civility in the Craft

Brethren,

together we pursue truths. Together we plunge toward the precipice of ignorance; that point of no return, where we have no certainty, leaping into darkness hopeful we will find an opening to the surface, but convinced the goal is worth the risk, no matter the cost.

Can we honestly think it there was no risk in Scotland, or Ireland or Germany or England?  Church and state were not yet constitutionally separated,  Habeas Corpus

At no time was freemasonry less complicated or less challenging than it is in the 21st Century.  Was the timing for  a Grand Lodge just coincidence or was it a product of Habeas Corpus- 1640?

We should punctuate our world with belief in angels and the little people;  but belief in coincidence?  Only if we are well into our cups!

Habeas Corpus? Here it is in a sentence...

No Freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseized of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any other wise destroyed; nor will We not pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the land.

Are we at risk of slipping into mediocrity? Is that what we fear the most?

You pour. We'll talk.