ANSWERING WHY IS KEY TO SUCCESSFUL EXPANSION

Freemasonry doesn't grow nor does it contract. The reasoning and logic, careful social analysis and awareness is subtle. It isn't revealed until an individual asks the essential questions.  What are they you ask?  They come from your examination of your life.  We know when this occurs because it is like an outburst in a lodge that endures.  I'm inclined to think education in the masonic fashion is the product of self-driven curiosity.  If history teaches nothing else, is it that education achieved can never be taken away from a man.  Greek thinkers were first to come out of the darkness by developing insight into the mind.  The richness of money, property and power were exposed for their weaknesses when the Socratic method- questions to prove the ignorance of the one pontificating- showing knowledge was true power and revealing ignorance along the pathway of life.

Freemasonry does quite well in our narrow halls, hunched around a table with a little food, a little wine, and friends.  

Have you noticed how we go about building interest in the Craft?  Historiography?  Metaphoric acts?  We sell tickets.  Tickets to BBQ's. Tickets for raffles. Tickets for cars. Tickets, upon tickets upon tickets.   So familiar we are with service clubs, we have tried and failed to remake freemasonry into a convenient, predictable service club format. But it doesn't achieve the same outcome because it is not a social service club.  Social clubs are derivative of fraternal organizations based on understanding our place in the universe.      What has sells to do with sharing the inspiring story of science, art and thought?   What if we showed the world our roots and let them harvest the fruit for themselves?