Grand Lodge Waco

District 74 lodges

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Three steps to Learning - EA, FC, MM

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Challenge to the Entered Apprentice

The Place of Masonic Light
 

I am Freemasonry

I was born in antiquity, in the ancient days when men first dreamed of God.

I have been tried through the ages, and found true. The crossroads of the

world bear the imprint of my feet, and the cathedrals of all nations mark

the skill of my hands.

I strive for beauty and for symmetry.

In my heart is wisdom and strength and courage for those who ask. Upon my

alters is the Book of Holy Writ, and my prayers are to the One Omnipotent

God, my sons work and pray together, without rank or discord, in the public

mart and in the inner chamber.

By signs and symbols I teach the lessons of life and of death and the

relationship of man with God and man with man.

My arms are widespread to receive those of lawful age and good report who

seek me of their own free will. I accept them and teach them to use my tools

in the building of men, and thereafter, find direction in their own quest

for perfection so much desired and so difficult to attain.

I lift up the fallen and shelter the sick. I hark to the orphans’ cry, the

widows’ tears, the pain of the old and destitute. I am not church, nor

party, nor school, yet my sons bear a full share of the responsibility to

God, to country, to neighbor and themselves. They are freemen, tenacious of

their liberties and alert to lurking danger. At the end, I commit them as

each one undertakes the journey beyond the vale into the glory of

everlasting life.

I ponder the sand within the glass and think how small is a single life in

the eternal universe. Always have I taught immortality, and even as I raise

men from darkness into light, I am a way of life.

I am Freemasonry.