CLC - ENTERED APPRENTICE - 05.22.17

T RUTH The Entered Apprentice is not asked to give his own understanding of “truth.” Although the search for truth is an important undertaking in the life of a Mason, Freemasonry neither gives a definition of “truth,” nor asks a new Mason to offer his own

idea of “truth” at this early stage in his Masonic life. It is a lifetime search to make ourselves true: true to God and true to those things that God wishes us to be. The third Principal Tenet of Freemasonry – Truth – is the practice of a virtue which eventually leads to an understanding of this ultimate reality. You should so regulate your own conduct that others will trust you to do the right thing, and a life of doing that which is right will lead you to an understanding of the requirements of Truth. The reputation of Freemasons is such that “hypocrisy and deceit are unknown amongst us.” But that only happens if each Mason practices the virtue of “trustworthiness,” by being “good and true” at all times.

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