“The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?”  Oscar Wilde

Doubtful that we can begin to understand the nature of freemasonry as long as we accept vague effort, lowering the standard. In fields of serious study, understand findings we refer to a context.  Rennaisance thought was a breakthrough challenge to the bullying of religion and politics that was able to exercise enough support to cajole the public to comply.   During the rennaisance mankind became irrevocally evidence based.  The consistency of mathematics and science gave mankind an entire new way to think.