My idea of the Masonic Light
Come to my mind, that moral precept that I heard from the Worshipful Master, after finishing the third trip on the ceremony of initiation: "Never do to others, what you don't want for yourself, and do all the things you want to receive from everybody else".
This expression reflects in a simple, clear and with mathematic precision, a behavior's pattern with our peers, that is so exact and elemental that it is rationally impossible to disobey, taking into consideration that beyond our attitude after the goodness or malicious (that is the way that Spanish Royal Academy Dictionary defines the word moral) it synthesizes the notion of a supreme being, the creator of everything, because it involves the idea that everything in life happens for a reason, and as a consequence or something, and then, good actions will provoque good reactions in return, and the ones that surpasses the moral pattern sooner or later will end causing some (negative) effect in the transgressor.
I'm neither referring to the existence of a social nor a divine punishment. Only to the fact that everything has a meaning under the universe, and it does not matter if we want to admit, understand or deny it.
Under these ideas, we will not be wrong saying that the coexistence in society becomes a subject not to talk about, because -as nature have a time and place for everything- humanity must face other mission: The quest for sanctity or moral geniality like Jose Ingenieros wrote on "El hombre mediocre" (The ordinary man)
However, living each day shows us that when it comes to human race, taking as an individuality in front of the universe, or as part of the whole, most elementary principles are usually not such, and basic rules start to have exceptions questioning its value, this is an issue we must take care of, through a deep analysis or in the simple things of life.
Man make things that doesn't want to receive, and omitted others that considers valuable for him.
How is this possible?
Maybe because, the road to perfection is long, winding and filled with some success, but mainly with delays, detours and difficulties.
During my life, I realized that some same situations happens with certain regularity. Speaking the truth the facts and performers may change, but the circumstance in the end, is exactly the same. These are the occasions that the person (at least sometimes) recriminates himself because he did not react in the way he thought he learned before, and make the same mistake.
I don't believe this has to be a natural desire to fall on the same hole over and over. Besides it does not have to mean any kinds of bizarre destiny traced by a mysterious will that establishes a sort of penalty like the one suffered by Sisyphus. (The mythological character that was forced to roll a block of stone against a steep hill of the infraworld, which tumbles back down when he reaches the top. Then the whole process starts again, lasting all eternity)
On the contrary, I guess that -like Saint Paul said in the Letter to Romans- in one of the ideas that accompany me, long before my birth to the Masonic life, we have the desire to do what is good, but we cannot carry it out. For what we do is not the good we want to do; no, the evil we do not want to do- this we keep on doing. (Romans 7, 18-19)
The fact is that we could love to avoid the fall that we all recognize as painful and negative, meaning a delay in the arriving time to our destiny, but the thing is that we get inside the hole, because we can not see it, at least not till it is too late. If it is not the case, we would be forced to conclude that we desire our own evil and destruction.
I have the hunch that I will have to return later to this issue, but in the mean time, considering my actual age, I fell that only a constant, humble and honest work in every little or big, internal or external thing that has to be done, will lead me to my destiny, and eventually I could lead others to the same place. This work can only be accomplished not just using the will to power but with a special effort and with the the light that I received in a symbolic and realistic manner, my initiation day. Light that acts just like the sun when a new day begins, lightning but not blinding, till the day that I will be able to see its full brightness.
February
20, 2003