SCIENCE OF LIFE
WB Ryan B. Tirol, PM
Freemasonry is basically a particular mode of development of the higher faculties. The particular goal now set before us is the development of the intuition, so that we are confronted with a particular difficulty arising from these conditions, taken together with the implications of the charge given to the apprentice. This can never be expressed in terms of everyday language and word-symbols. It is possible to gain a comprehensive knowledge of its aims and ideals only by direct investigation and experience. Freemasonry remains always an experiential science of life and, as such, can be appreciated and carried to its fulfillment only by the trained observer, who has reached a stage of development so great as to be beyond the appreciation of our limited faculties.
Truth is ONE. It has many facets, and it is not normally given to a man to be able to see more than one facet at a time. To be able to see more, and, ultimately, to grow into all truth, is a matter for slow and persistent training and development. Meanwhile, the tragedy has been that men have so little realized the facts of the case, and have made so little effort at mutual understanding and co-operation. It has been said that “to state your aspect of truth and put it before people who do not know it – that is a grand and noble thing to do, but to quarrel about it is utterly foolish.” Yet the state of quarrel seems always to have been rather the rule than the exception in matters spiritual. The reason has been the inability or, more often, the disinclination of most men to make any effort to appreciate the other man’s point of view.
(masoniceducation.com)