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Within masonry, is perfection; beauty; a universe in utterly remarkable balance. Poor is man that blames himself for not seeing what is there. He has not found the perspective that helps him understand that he is surrounded by beauty.
The Chinese approach to beauty, does not immediately disclose all. It leaves something to the imagination, to allow a man to loose himself in his contemplation, creating the road of a spiritual experience. Reflections, memory, deeply surreal, contradictory, magical.
By turning to the East, we move from that which is manicured and manufactured and that which is natural. Can our western eye see in this cultural confusion, a message? In this sense, do symbols, allegory, arcane, perhaps the metaphor in this sense inspire us in mysterious, essential masonic experience?
Notice in the ordinary, what lessons are revealed in the garden of them mind? The spiritual purity of freemasonry is a path to understanding. What holds the secret of freemasonry may not be within the walls of the lodge but in nature, the key that unlocks secrets left. Finding that much sought after key is afterall, a personnal journey that thousands have discovered. The answers do not come to him. He leaves behind the predictability of the lodge to discover, not as the first but as the next.
It is elemental, vast and very, very old.
Let go of turmoil and it will let go of you. Listen for the silence in a crowd. Become invisible to conflict and it will pass through you. Then the humble apprentice finds the lesson he has laboured to find. Do not search for it. Be it. Be a mason in mind, body and spirit and notice the life force flows unrestricted.
