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BUILDING THE TOWER
The Tower rises upon the plain as the image of man’s first collective awakening.
Stone is laid upon stone; speech, will, and labour are gathered into one ascending purpose. In that ancient enterprise the human soul beholds itself at a solemn stage of its evolution: emerging from tribal sleep, discovering its power of union, and daring to measure the heavens with the instruments of earth.
The confusion of tongues marks the fracture of inward harmony. Man had found strength before he had found wisdom; he had acquired the art of building before he had mastered the government of desire.
Masonry resumes the interrupted labour upon a higher plane. It gathers men of many nations, tempers speech into brotherhood, disciplines ambition by moral law, and teaches that the true ascent is made by the square, the plumb, and the level.
The heavens are reached by the building of the soul. The great project continues wherever men unite to raise a temple worthy of the Light.
The Lodge is the furnace of the Great Work.
The Candidate enters as the rough ashlar, bearing within himself the unshaped stone of anger, desire, fear, vanity, and ignorance. The working tools are placed before him because character must be measured, struck, squared, and brought into due form.
The common gavel breaks the excess from passion. The plumb teaches uprightness in thought and deed. The square governs desire by moral law. The compasses draw a sacred boundary around the appetites, that the inner man may rise within proper limits.
Anger, rightly governed, becomes strength. Desire, rightly directed, becomes aspiration. Ignorance, rightly humbled, becomes light.
The Mason’s alchemy is performed upon the living stone. His gold is neither hidden in the earth nor melted from metal. It is virtue refined by labor, discipline, and brotherly truth.
The perfected ashlar is the soul made fit for the Temple.