The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

II
THE SOUL OF MASONRY
Can the unity of the world be accomplished by
Freemasons? Yes ; and by Freemasons only. But
not yet. That is the answer. Why not yet? is
the question to be answered. One of the reasons
is because the majority of Freemasons do not in
reality carry out in daily practice the sublime tenets
of the Brotherhood. And why? There are many — y
reasons. I will t y and enumerate some for the
good of my brother Freemasons, and I hope that
this may bear fruit both here and in foreign lands.
First.— Because the historical aspect of Free-
masonry is not known except
the Craft. The majority
to a few students of
of the Brotherhood have
been, and are, content to think that the history of
Freemasonry is entirely modern. They have never
studied it ; have never thought what it was, and
is. We have no history of the Craft for those
who cannot read ancient writings, except where
I have given them a decipherment and transla-
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