STRUGGLE ON

There is much to be gained from the presumptions and conclusions drawn from our aspect as a mason. Listen to the way we challenge inequality where we find it.  Watch as we attempt to balance opinion with influences.  And as we do this, stress lines develop again sending us off on a lonely orbit while the world decides our fate. No Utopian Dream- this reality is fraught. If we weren't thinking philosophically yesterday, existential threat will soon make that de rigueur.   Still, we don't remanufacture character or for that matter thinking. We influence those among us who have presence of mind enough to experiment with the potential of declaring yourself a rhelic with the voice of a polymath.  Thank you Mr. Prescott for providing a public school education in the classical style. We walk slowly away from Universities- Al-Azhar, Ruperto Carola, Bologna, Salamanaca, Paris, Padua, Naples Federico11, Combra, better for the confidence instill in us as auditors of all we see and experience. Freemasonry gave us reason to pull up to the chess board with friends who didn't need to be convinced of the value it contained. The transparency of awareness made us impossible to threaten, impossible to control.  We became the embodiment of a values based world organization; a significant threat to depots and oligarchs.  So we kept in our lane as inextinguishable influence, kept in a benign wrapper so as to calm our critics. And today, there we remain. We couldn't scale up the Order as we wished, but we had to try to see if it were possible. So now. we have information that we are prudently putting to use.  And as I reckon, we are witnessing a resurgence on an almost imperceptible but honest scale. As long as we trust and value knowledge, we will continue the struggle with all the grace we can muster. Long live Freemasonry.