CLC - Fellow Craft - 05.22.17

S ELF - IMPROVEMENT

Self-improvement is what Masonry is about, and the Fellow Craft Degree outlines a program to follow in pursuing that goal: observation, reflection, hypothesis and testing. We observe ourselves and others. We reflect on how personal conduct increases or impairs harmony. We reflect on the conduct indicated by our Masonic symbols. We reflect on the moral

advantages of Geometry and what others have discovered before us through the liberal arts and sciences. Along the way, we start to come up with hypotheses: if I make this change to how I react to situations, will there be a better result? Then, we test this change by actually making it! Self- improvement requires work, and the Fellow Craft Degree provides the work plan. Remember during this work that self-improvement involves both doing good and being better. To be better is obvious but we improve ourselves also when we help others. Sharing what we have gained reorients our outlook to the true source of a harmonious existence.

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