Our civilization entered the third Millennium under the weight of many problems and contradictions: the environmental crisis with global warming and a lack of renewable energy resources, religious radicalism and terrorism, the widening gap between rich and poor, hunger, new diseases, social security and medical care crises, immigration, consumer debt and out of control bankruptcies out, broken families, islamisation of Europe, dysfunctional public school systems, the rise in crime, the erosion of moral and ethical standards in politics, business and society in general, environmental disasters.
Social as well as political institutions of the modern western societies are not able to give positive answers and solutions for the number of issues pressing today’s human beings. Major religions and sciences, along the lines of the mechanistic Cartesian-Newtonian world view have alienated human beings from their spiritual, moral, and emotional abilities: science was separated from religion, reason from faith, logic from intuition, material from spiritual, natural from supernatural, and secular from sacred. This resulted in the materialistic worldview that promotes science, reason, logic, material, natural and secular, while at the same time completely ignoring and denigrating faith, religion, supernatural, spiritual and sacred.
The only current of western philosophical thought that preserved the natural unity of seemingly opposite ideas was Freemasonry. The practice of Freemasonry will teach us that the Cartesian-Newtonian dichotomy is a false, man- made creation, and that this separation does not exist in nature, in the real world. To understand ourselves and the reality we live in, we necessarily have to marry again scientific and religious truth; for Masonic truth is one and absolute. To get into the deepest parts of our inner Self we have to apply both reason and intuition. Our higher reality is one, and there is no separation between the material and spiritual realms of the higher reality. This unity of opposite methods in reaching absolute answers and results in the sphere of human existance and selfimprovement is typical of Freemasonry.
The ultimate purpose of Freemasonry is the perfection of men and the realization of the higher Self, which would ultimately result in the oneness of humankind. That oneness is here understood as a spiritual unification of all human beings into one global community of true and good individuals liberated from all kinds of prejudices. Great Teachers of Freemasonry: Albert Pike, Albert Mackey, Manly P. Hall, Arthur Waite and many others, all pointed to the fact that all the various religions of the world are on a higher reality one and only one Divine Religion. But Freemasonry is not interested in describing the absolute nature of God as the followers of some religions try to do. Freemasonry understands and accepts that each individual person has a right and need to directly perceive and to experience his own vision of God. The oneness of humankind does not refer to the oneness of the vision, but to the oneness of mutual tolerance and understanding, oneness of Divine Love.
We can use many different examples to validate the concept of Freemasonry. We can talk about quantum physics and latest discoveries in this field. Physicist Fritjof Capra tells us:
“An increasing number of scientists are aware that mystical thought provides a consistent and relevant philosophical background to the theories of contemporary science, a conception of the world in which the scientific discoveries of men and women can be in perfect harmony with their spiritual and religious beliefs.”(The Turning point, page 78).
To learn this fact, Freemasons didn’t have to wait admission to research facilities of the quantum physicists, nor for the volumes of the experimental data on “abnormal” characteristics of subatomic entities. All that Freemasons needed were their Lodge rooms, their Rites and Rituals.
We can also talk about different spiritual and “self-transformational” or “holistic” movements of the twentieth century, that all sprang independently from the very same ideals to which Freemasonry subscribes. All of these various movements are of diverse origins and have quite a different structure than Freemasonry. Nevertheless, the philosophical bases of their teachings are often strikingly parallel to those of Freemasonry. This merely proves two things. First, that the body of the archetypal principles of our subconscious has many different ways to express itself on the conscience level; and second: that the need for the unification of mortal man with the higher Self is more urgent than ever.
We may continue to be ignorant and claim that the mountain of global environmental, economic, political, and social problems is a result of a complex system of objective and subjective factors from many spheres of human existence. Such an understanding is just an expression of the great crisis of the human spirit. We, as material human beings, have become disassociated from our inner beings, from our soul. We cannot find solutions to any of the problems without first improving ourselves. On the other hand, if we complete ourselves, if we come into the true balance with our true higher nature, solutions for the global problems will present themselves in a magically easy and liberating manner.The reason for that is obvious and simple. Solutions for the global issues are within our inner beings. So close but yet so far.
What is man to do? Astronauts are building space stations in earth’s orbit, a man-made spacecraft is about to reach the end of the solar system. The way things are now, we are on the way tof making that spacecraft the only testimony to the existence of the human race. We are on the collision course; not only with each other, but with ourselves and with our environment. Over many centuries men were following the words of various Prophets as the intermediaries between men and God. It is time for each of us to meet God face to face if humanity is to survive. We need to learn how to achieve that. It is not an easy task, but yet it is as simple as plucking the rose...
Social as well as political institutions of the modern western societies are not able to give positive answers and solutions for the number of issues pressing today’s human beings. Major religions and sciences, along the lines of the mechanistic Cartesian-Newtonian world view have alienated human beings from their spiritual, moral, and emotional abilities: science was separated from religion, reason from faith, logic from intuition, material from spiritual, natural from supernatural, and secular from sacred. This resulted in the materialistic worldview that promotes science, reason, logic, material, natural and secular, while at the same time completely ignoring and denigrating faith, religion, supernatural, spiritual and sacred.
The only current of western philosophical thought that preserved the natural unity of seemingly opposite ideas was Freemasonry. The practice of Freemasonry will teach us that the Cartesian-Newtonian dichotomy is a false, man- made creation, and that this separation does not exist in nature, in the real world. To understand ourselves and the reality we live in, we necessarily have to marry again scientific and religious truth; for Masonic truth is one and absolute. To get into the deepest parts of our inner Self we have to apply both reason and intuition. Our higher reality is one, and there is no separation between the material and spiritual realms of the higher reality. This unity of opposite methods in reaching absolute answers and results in the sphere of human existance and selfimprovement is typical of Freemasonry.
The ultimate purpose of Freemasonry is the perfection of men and the realization of the higher Self, which would ultimately result in the oneness of humankind. That oneness is here understood as a spiritual unification of all human beings into one global community of true and good individuals liberated from all kinds of prejudices. Great Teachers of Freemasonry: Albert Pike, Albert Mackey, Manly P. Hall, Arthur Waite and many others, all pointed to the fact that all the various religions of the world are on a higher reality one and only one Divine Religion. But Freemasonry is not interested in describing the absolute nature of God as the followers of some religions try to do. Freemasonry understands and accepts that each individual person has a right and need to directly perceive and to experience his own vision of God. The oneness of humankind does not refer to the oneness of the vision, but to the oneness of mutual tolerance and understanding, oneness of Divine Love.
We can use many different examples to validate the concept of Freemasonry. We can talk about quantum physics and latest discoveries in this field. Physicist Fritjof Capra tells us:
“An increasing number of scientists are aware that mystical thought provides a consistent and relevant philosophical background to the theories of contemporary science, a conception of the world in which the scientific discoveries of men and women can be in perfect harmony with their spiritual and religious beliefs.”(The Turning point, page 78).
To learn this fact, Freemasons didn’t have to wait admission to research facilities of the quantum physicists, nor for the volumes of the experimental data on “abnormal” characteristics of subatomic entities. All that Freemasons needed were their Lodge rooms, their Rites and Rituals.
We can also talk about different spiritual and “self-transformational” or “holistic” movements of the twentieth century, that all sprang independently from the very same ideals to which Freemasonry subscribes. All of these various movements are of diverse origins and have quite a different structure than Freemasonry. Nevertheless, the philosophical bases of their teachings are often strikingly parallel to those of Freemasonry. This merely proves two things. First, that the body of the archetypal principles of our subconscious has many different ways to express itself on the conscience level; and second: that the need for the unification of mortal man with the higher Self is more urgent than ever.
We may continue to be ignorant and claim that the mountain of global environmental, economic, political, and social problems is a result of a complex system of objective and subjective factors from many spheres of human existence. Such an understanding is just an expression of the great crisis of the human spirit. We, as material human beings, have become disassociated from our inner beings, from our soul. We cannot find solutions to any of the problems without first improving ourselves. On the other hand, if we complete ourselves, if we come into the true balance with our true higher nature, solutions for the global problems will present themselves in a magically easy and liberating manner.The reason for that is obvious and simple. Solutions for the global issues are within our inner beings. So close but yet so far.
What is man to do? Astronauts are building space stations in earth’s orbit, a man-made spacecraft is about to reach the end of the solar system. The way things are now, we are on the way tof making that spacecraft the only testimony to the existence of the human race. We are on the collision course; not only with each other, but with ourselves and with our environment. Over many centuries men were following the words of various Prophets as the intermediaries between men and God. It is time for each of us to meet God face to face if humanity is to survive. We need to learn how to achieve that. It is not an easy task, but yet it is as simple as plucking the rose...
(from THE PURPOSE OF FREEMASONRY Published by Create Space Inc. June 18th 2008, Trade Paperback, Pages 112, ISBN 1438239467, ISBN-13 9781438239460, Avaliable online from:
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