THE USE OF MASONIC GEOMETRY

We are a community that has endured for longer than we can measure. We have a strength, not built on numbers but on a continued sense of unity. This might be the angst experienced by Grand Lodge representatives- how to influence growth?-how to influence depth? - how to enter the minds of men to examine what motivates and inspires.  The answers to these reasonable questions are murky. Put all our finest philosophical minds in one room and they would show us consensus is not an outcome but a process.  We will always question and reason. Best answers are temporary, evasive, situational. Without preamble or discourse on how they were reached, they fall somewhere between opinion and popularity. It has been this way because we know there is truth to it. And the more we respect diversity, we hope out of that men will take responsibility for consensus building.  Those that do are legends. Those that aren't, have questions to ask and answers to debate. Let's say a lodge membership all read Scottish masonic history. We might not assume they would all have the same reaction, but would they have a framework on which to build. But to build what? I think they would invest on creating atmosphere, conducive to their collective sense of masonry. Scottish culture tends to stabilize anxieties. It is a story of integrity and authenticity.  It is one of a number of cites around the world with that capability. Some men reach back to understand their cultural roots. Others focus on survival and moving forward. Is there are right or wrong? But put a small group of like minded ppl together and they have a different potential. Even though masonry an overarching community, it is thousands of smaller cultures, known to tyled lodges that we never see.  Is the conversation informed? How does harmonics and the common good play out? As projects in process. Take nothing for granted, everything in moderation and respect the body of knowledge. SMIB