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Chapter 10 - Conclusion
barriers against people that are different (like colored people, Jews, women, etc.).
As such values have become less and less "politically correct," the viability of
structures that legitimize them have become less acceptable by the modern
citizen as well.
However, if the Masons of today will make an effort to introduce several
modifications, such as have been proposed by many progressive Masonic
individuals with regard to the abolishment of secrecy, the acceptance of colored
people, and the admittance of women, etc., there might be a revival. From
personal knowledge we can only support this thesis, since we have witnessed
high membership especially in the up-coming German female lodges which
shows that the interest of the population in the fraternity is still there. This is not
to be understood as an advertisement for the order. Everyone must judge for
himself or herself how much symbolism is needed to be enlightened. It need not
be "further light in Masonry." However, as a field for linguistic studies,
Freemasonry will never lose its attraction, for its beautiful and peculiar
"language," as universal as it may be, literally is a "Royal Art."
2122 GHCDF, p. 595.
The sacred and universal principle of the royal art, which unites men of
the most opposite tenets, of the most distant countries, and of the most
contradictory opinions in one indissoluble bond of affection, so that in
every nation a Mason finds a friend, and in every clime a home, has
been amply denominated the mystic tie, and the Fraternity are often
termed "Brethren of the Mystic Tie." 2122