CLC - Master Mason - 05.30.17

T RAVELING IN F OREIGN C OUNTRIES

Our most ambitious operative forbearers aspired to be master stonemasons, engineers and architects, positions possessing those secrets of geometry and the Master’s Word which together entitled them to practice the Operative Art wherever work was available, even in foreign countries. Today, we can

practice the art of Speculative Masonry without traveling to a foreign country, but we preserve this important concept for its symbolism. The ability to travel in foreign countries means that we have the aptitude and training to make our own decisions coupled with the intellectual freedom to think what we want and to express those thoughts. To assure these rights for ourselves, we must safeguard them for others also and use them for the betterment of society.

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