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ThE GREATEST OF ThE ThREE GREAT liGhTS

UR CRAFT IS TERMED ‘SPECULATIVE’, being a system of Morals
veiled in allegory and illustrated by Symbols upon the meaning of which
Owe speculate. The allegories used are to do with the Building Trade and the
Symbols are selected from the tools used by the Masons employed therein. In other words,
we strive to build up our lives upon a strict moral basis. For example — we speculate upon
a moral interpretation of some of the working tools of a Mason.
Let us always remember the very first things that were pointed out to us when, as a
Freemason, we were ‘Brought to Light’, namely — the Three Great though emblematical
Lights in Freemasonry, the V.O.S.L. the Square and the Compasses. These symbols are
the basis of our whole Masonic system, of which the greatest by far is the Volume of the
Sacred Law.
During our Obligation, we laid our hands upon this book because it symbolises the
revelations from above, which are binding upon our conscience. All over the World, in
every Regular Lodge at work, whatever be its ritual, that book must be open and exposed
to view, as our hearts should be exposed to its symbolic meaning.
It is absolutely essential for a Regular Freemason to have a belief in GOD, the Supreme
Being, but otherwise his religion is no concern of ours, although we may hope that
our work will help him to practise it. Our Volume of the Sacred Law is the Holy Bible,
but when an Obligation from a member of another persuasion is required, the book
that he considers most sacred should be provided for him to lay his hands upon. For a
Mohammedan it would be the Koran, for a Parsee the Zendavasta, for a Sikh the Granth
Sahib, and so on. The teachings in these Books vary but they are not read in Lodge. It
matters not, because to us as Freemasons they are all a Symbol of the most profound
standard of Truth and Justice that we are capable of understanding. All represent the same
thing, the Will of the Great Architect of the Universe, the greatest First Unknown and
Unknowable cause which is manifest in his Universe. To us it is an open book with one
word written upon it and that word is GOD. Our Lodges are therefore open in the sight
of GOD.
During the last century it is unfortunately true to say that Irregular Lodges and
Grand Lodges came into being in which it was not necessary to have a belief in GOD