Is Freemasonry a Total Moral Philosophy?
By RWBro JDF Black, PDGM This series of lectures, each of variable duration, is based on a lecture given in The Victorian Lodge of Research, No 2181 of the United Grand Lodge of Victoria. It is designed to provide Freemasons with an interpretation of the real significance of the Degrees of Craft Masonry. The references at the end of each lecture are designed to validate the basis on which the interpretations are made and are intended to encourage members of the Craft to use them to develop interpretations of their own if they are not satisfied with those I present. My interpretations are based on the current UGLV Ritual and on the concept that Freemasonry is a “System of morality, veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols”. In each lecture passages of our ritual that contain anomalies are located and are used to identify the allegory they conceal. By separating the lecture into different parts, an opportunity is provided for brethren to absorb the concepts I present more readily th
