Summary
W. L. Wilmshurst: The Meaning of Freemasonry
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 revealed 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. Wilmshurst speaks of the spiritual life in terms of Masonic rituals and symbols, all of which lead to a higher path than the one we usually walk, to an inner world where the ancient mysteries of our being should be consecrated. In all likelihood, when Wilmshurst at one point feared that the historically unstoppable invasion of the dominant materialistic understanding of reality and the attraction of the lower human nature to worldly possessions in Freemasonry, threatened to endanger the life and immortal principles of the secret tradition of Freemasonry, he collected and expanded his lectures intended for the Fraternity in English lodges and created a work of timeless value. And not only for the then and future freemasons, but also for all those seekers who seek meaning and knock on the doors of the Temples in search of a secret tradition and the Light that comes from the Eternal East.
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