There are philosophic secrets concealed within the Masonic system. They are to be distinguished from the merely formal secrets imparted ceremonially.
By these secrets is not meant information that can be imparted or withheld at will, but truths inherent in the system itself; truths needing to be extracted from it, like poetry or music from the printed page, by personal effort, and which can be recognized as truths only by the responsiveness of the soul after deeply meditating and assimilating them.
Hence we are taught them by means of signs, tokens and perfect points of entrance, meaning appropriate faculties of perception and understanding. Inward truths and mysteries are inevitably and automatically secret from those who lack the faculty to perceive them.
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By these secrets is not meant information that can be imparted or withheld at will, but truths inherent in the system itself; truths needing to be extracted from it, like poetry or music from the printed page, by personal effort, and which can be recognized as truths only by the responsiveness of the soul after deeply meditating and assimilating them.
Hence we are taught them by means of signs, tokens and perfect points of entrance, meaning appropriate faculties of perception and understanding. Inward truths and mysteries are inevitably and automatically secret from those who lack the faculty to perceive them.
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http://www.grandlodgeeastafrica.org
