CLC - Fellow Craft - 05.22.17

L IBERAL A RTS AND S CIENCES

As operative Masonry developed a speculative nature, its leaders recognized the need for a Mason to know more than just his trade. A Mason could be his own master only if he had the aptitude and training to make his own decisions. The mechanical arts could provide a Mason with a

livelihood, but a study of the seven liberal arts and sciences could train him to think for himself and be independent. This study began with the trivium of grammar, rhetoric (the art of speaking) and logic, the keys to language. Once the trivium was mastered, a student then progressed to the study of the quadrivium: arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy, which can open the mind to the secrets of nature.

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