Summary
Walter Leslie Wilmshurst: Collection of works
Walter Leslie Wilmshurst is one of the most brilliant thinkers of Freemasonry, an esoteric poet and certainly one of the deepest mystics of Masonic idealism, whose classic work stands as a bridge between the 19th and 20th centuries, but is actualized and discovered in full light only in our time. His work is gaining increasing importance, both because of the growing interest in Freemasonry and because of the receptivity of our age to spiritual achievements. PROCESSING LESSONS are a continuation of Wilmshurst's exposition and further explanations of Masonic symbolism as a continuation of the capital works MEANING OF FREEMASONRY, MASONIC INITIATION and INITIATION CEREMONIES - analysis and comments - AND ADVANCEMENT CEREMONIES. All four volumes represent a unique whole, where one complements the other. Wilmshurst states: "Masonry, according to the generally accepted term, is an art founded on the principles of geometry, and directed to the service and prosperity of mankind. But Masonry, which embraces a wider scope and has a nobler aim, namely, the cultivation and improvement of the human mind, may with more dignity be called a science, though its lessons are for the most part concealed in allegories and illustrated by symbols, since, disguised as the concepts of the former, it inculcates the principles of the purest morality."
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