WORKING TOOLS ARE THE SYMBOL OF EVERY CULTURE

 A PUBLIC LECTURE FOR NON-MASONIC AUDIENCES

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The company of Freemasons is one of the oldest societies known to man and with this heritage let us be sure that the story of our work in this life lives on in the record of the working tools that we leave behind. Primitive man has come a long way from the stone axe to the computer; adapting, learning, progressing. This is the nature of man. Masons have come from the prehistory of rough ashlar buildings to gleaming skyscrapers. Let us never forget that the basis for our successful continuance is the square, the level and the compasses - shining brightly in the reflected light of the Grand Architect of The Universe.