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Mastering the Liberal Arts & Sciences (Masonic Wisdom)

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Mastering the trivium - grammar, rhetoric, and logic - is crucial for effectively practicing Freemasonry. By consciously understanding the structure and meaning of the ritual's sentences, we can interpret the symbolism and allegories to grasp the practical and moral lessons they impart. Freemasonry provides the tools within its ceremonies to master the Craft itself, and by asking refined questions and seeking answers within, we can unlock its true potential for self-improvement. This realization has deepened my appreciation for Freemasonry and motivated me to further my studies in the liberal arts and sciences.
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Darren Allatt is the Founder of Daily Masonic Progress, Australia's leading masonic education and information newsletter focused on decoding the allegories and symbolism of Freemasonry to help Masons and good men build a life of meaning, purpose and fulfilment.
Darren holds the Right Worshipful Rank of Past Senior Grand Warden and is the Chairman of Membership & Education for the United Grand Lodge of NSW & ACT.
Initiated into Freemasonry at 19, Darren progressed through the Craft Degrees and progressive office and was Installed as Worshipful Master of The Leichhardt Lodge No 133 in Sydney Australia in 2012. In 2014, Darren served as District Grand Inspector of Workings and later joined the Board of Management in 2019.
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Darren took an interest in Freemasonry upon learning about both his Grandfathers were Freemasons. On being Raised to the Third Degree, Darren was invested with his paternal Grandfather's apron, and then his Installed Master apron when Darren was Installed into the Chair.
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@ohfreemason Месяц назад

Great video, Brother. I'm a MM from Ohio, USA. Through my Masonic journey I found that the teachings of the 7 Liberal Arts, and other things, fall short. There was a time in the past where educated people were taught these things in-depth. I've decided to start an "Academy" that offers people (not just Masons) the ability to learn the arts and humanities in a structured, entry level way. I'm working tirelessly on the curriculum at the moment, but it seems something like this needs to be available to those seeking a higher understanding of these teachings.

@DailyMasonicProgress Месяц назад

Great idea. Drop me an email or add me as a friend on Facebook and let’s talk further.

@RaferJeffersonIII 3 месяца назад

Fraternal greetings from Bristol Uk. 🤝

@DailyMasonicProgress 3 месяца назад

Fraternal Greetings my Brother.

@mst4722 3 месяца назад

The mistake is always made by masons in thinking that the “lessons” of masonry are derived from the ritual. Masonry when properly observed directs the man to its constituent parts of which there are only 3 - the Holy Bible, the Elements of Euclid and the Dialogue’s of Plato. The “three pillars” of the “western tradition”. Men make a huge mistake in seeing masonry as its own source of “wisdom” when it is, in-fact, meant to help heal “lame men” (see Acts 3:11) by preparing them to engage with the material that actually improves a man, again, the Holy Bible, the Elements of Euclid and the Dialogues of Plato. No man should ever consider himself a “master” of anything without at the very least being conversant in these texts and there is not a single thing to be found in masonry that was not sourced from these three books alone. That said, don’t confuse the fraternity which is nothing more than a subscription sales MLM, for the craft which is the actual tradition to be transmitted. Men don’t learn because they want to be sold their own self importance rather than realizing they are too inept to manage a remedial education which is what basic masonry “is”. If you can’t manage those three books you’ll never be mason, you’ll only ever be a “member” of a lodge. This is why we distinguish between cowans and masons. A mason “knows” what it’s all about, the cowan just fakes it thinking he’s made it.

@DailyMasonicProgress 3 месяца назад

You’ve absolutely nailed it Brother. Although I have a slightly different view. Masonry is the distillation of the wisdom from those three texts into a system of education. That system then provides the theoretical lessons, while providing an environment (the lodge) to learn them through practical application in a safe environment, before applying them in the real world.

@mst4722 3 месяца назад

Im not clear on what a real world application would be. One of the primary goals of masonry is to help men work with abstracts and the expectation is that the men who seek out a lodge are already engaged in and conversant with these topics before they take the degrees. as i'm sure you know, the craft deals with abstracts / universals > theology, philosophy and mathematics. None of these are meant for practical ends, (no, not even geometry). If anything its meant to detach from the mass culture of the “real world” (the vulgar and profane) and work with those universal (“catholic”) topics which simply cant be comprehended or cared for by men who can only manage “real world” or “practical” ends.

@DailyMasonicProgress 3 месяца назад

The Operative meaning derived from our ceremonies gives you the practical application. Participating in the system, through learning the meaning of the ceremonies, to performing them, and the well running of a lodge, are all practical applications. For example. The First Working Tools. The operative meaning teaches that before you start anything you need to measure it (and in several ways), you need to apply consistent effort and built habits and work on it, but you also need to learn how to do it and about the thing you are perusing.

@mst4722 3 месяца назад

@@DailyMasonicProgress Pardon me as I do not mean to be pedantic but there wouldn't really be any operative aspect to this other than, perhaps, becoming familiar with (reading and discussing) the base texts that deal with things like the virtues, the saints John etc… But this is really more speculative as we aren’t actually building anything. The working tools can help explicate the guidelines but they are rather inert and we tend to invest too much into their being “mysterious” or “symbolic”. We emulate the ritual as it has been “taught” to us for the sake of setting the tone of the meeting. This is all rote (for good reasons), but what happens is that men slop through the mechanics and then interpret things as they want to and not as they are meant to, largely because the so called masters don’t know what they are doing and fail to set the example for the others. Symbols are meant to be interpreted but are not open to just* any interpretation and my concern is that we leave masons to their own uneducated devices rather than guiding them in the craft. When we make it about the man and his "improvement" and not about masonry we lose it completely. There is no such thing as a “personal masonic experience” (a ridiculous phrase heard all the time in America). Apologies as Im speaking a little past what your comment was but I want to drive home the assertion that there is no “practical” or “operative” end to the craft, its not about building good habits or being nicer, more successful etc.. I always find it ironic that the Americanism “make good men better” is the main sales pitch of Protagoras, one of the lead sophists.

@DailyMasonicProgress 3 месяца назад

@@mst4722 Sorry Brother, but you are completely wrong here to dismiss the operative meaning of our symbols and allegories. Rather you are simply and only considering their theoretical value. That is not to say such is on its own is wrong, but dismissing practical value is. Take Euclid's elements for example. All of his thoery is not just for the mind. But rather, are to be applied practically. His work forms the foundation of engineering. You can't ignore the practical interpretation.