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"Then again, tests like this
were extremely common in secret societies. The best
known was the Mason's, wherein members ascended to higher
degrees by proving they could keep a secret and by performing
rituals and various tests of merit over many years.
The tasks became progressively harder unil they culminated
in a successful candidate's induction as thirty-second-degree
Mason" - Da Vinci Code - by Dan Brown.
I guess there is and will always be
a market for anything labeled as "secret"
for there are and always will be intrigued buyer and
readers.
It seems to be getting more and more
so. With many trusting science as much as organized
Religion, people are looking at paths less trodden.
The recent interest in Vaasthu, Numerology, Nameology,
etc. are testament to this. In any case people also
like mystery.
The amazing thing about Dan Brown's
novel Da Vinci Code is that a whole cottage of industry
materialized to prove that the novel is a fiction! A
genre was bom to refute Brown's book while the non-novel
Holy Blood, Holy Grail which was the basis of the Code,
was barely mentioned nor noticed.
Now we understand that Dan Brown is
writing a book about our Craft with an obvious purposen-
to expose our secret". The buying public will be
disappointed and probably will not believe that there
is no historical, physical or material secret in to
day's Freemasonry worthy enough to exchange for someone
or anybody's life. I wonder if the public will ever
believe that the REAL secret of Freemasonry is the most
desired object in today's world: "to make good
men better".
I don't think I need to say, that,
in the society we live, making oneself into something
of greater worth from the inside will ever be valuable
enough to the public at large to give up their life
or in fact give even a passing interest.
This secret however is most valuable
to the person who possesses it. Sadly many of us do
not know that we possess this secret and we go about
with our Freemasonry without realizing this, without
using it. Until, somebody like Dan Brown, can come and
switch on the light within us.
Courtesy : The Pearl Mason
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