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Old 04-30-2008, 06:00 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Speculative Masons like us use the tools of a mason as symbols to represent morals and ethics. An Operative Mason, actually lay's brick, carves stone. etc...


Agreed , As Operative Masons build buildings using stone , bricks and mortar . Speculative Masons are moral builders , who use our tools as RoughAshlar stated , symbolicly to better ourselves .
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Freemasonry is "veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols" because these are the surest way by which moral and ethical truths may be taught. It is not only with the brain and with the mind that the initiate must take Freemasonry but also with the heart. -C. H. Claudy

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