20°
Master of the Symbolic
Lodge
The
true Mason is a practical Philosopher, who, under religious emblems in
all ages adopted by wisdom, builds upon plans traced by nature and reason
the moral edifice of knowledge.
As Grand Master
of all Symbolic Lodges, it is your especial duty to aid in restoring Masonry
to its primitive purity. You have become an instructor. Masonry long wandered
in error. Instead of improving, it degenerated from its primitive simplicity
- and retrograded toward a system, disttttorted by stupidity and ignorance,
which, unable to construct a beautiful machine, made a complicated one.
