“It is in this large sense, then, that Masonry may become for us, as indeed it was intended to become by those who instituted our present speculative system, a working philosophy for those brought within its influence.
It supplies a need to those who are earnestly enquiring into the purpose and destiny of human life. It is a means of initiating into reliable knowledge those who feel that their knowledge of life and their path of life have hitherto been but a series of irregular steps made at haphazard and under hoodwinked conditions as to whither they are going.
Not without good reason does our catechism assert that Masonry contains "many and invaluable secrets." But, these, of course, are not the formal and symbolic signs, tokens and words communicated ceremonially to candidates; they are rather those secrets which we instinctively keep locked up in the recesses and safe repository of our hearts; secrets of the deep and hidden things of the soul, about which we do not often talk, and which, by a natural instinct, we are not in the habit of communicating to any but such of our brethren and fellows as share with us a common and a sympathetic interest in the deeper problems and mysteries of life.”
– Brother Walter Leslie Wilmshurst's The Meaning of Masonry, Chapter 2
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