Three important words

Wisdom, strength and beauty

Written on the lodge logo of many lodges appear the words wisdom, strength

and beauty and these three words require further consideration.

Wisdom, strength and beauty are important references to masons inside the temple. We all know that to drive on a road especially at night we need light, otherwise you run the risk of crashing into something, and if the road is especially tortuous, the light becomes even more necessary.

Today, society is living through a period of difficulty. As has always been the case throughout human history, the yin and yang of greed and selflessness, love and hate, exploitation and egalitarianism, and fear and understanding continue to struggle with each other.

It is not being pessimistic to say that, like the dark, there will likely be more loss of trust by citizens towards institutions.

Freemasonry on the other hand continues to thrive and grow because it has ideas, because it nourishes its membership, and because it is constituted by men who hold a desire to pursue to completion virtuous projects that stand the test of time.

While other institutions are said to be facing an existential crisis because of the various financial and governance scandals that have rocked them to their very core, masons alone continue to believe that we can survive in the 21st century and beyond as a valid fraternal entity.

Freemasonry does not have a thirst for power, yet we acknowledge that power can be a strength when used wisely. This type of power is a spiritual one, in which we are single-mindedly committed to illuminating the path of men, and to providing answers to problems faced by society.

We offer these answers to big ethical dilemmas in both philosophical and spiritual form.