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What is Freemasonry’s greatest symbol?

The Square and Compasses? The Temple? The Working Tools? The Brotherhood of Man? This lecture offers a quieter but more profound answer: Light.

In Freemasonry, Light is not simply knowledge. It is the illumination by which symbols are seen, interpreted, and made meaningful. Like sunlight passing through a prism, Masonic Light may be understood as a compound of many truths: charity, honour, law, learning, reverence, patriotism, and unselfishness.

This presentation considers Light not merely as a symbol within the Craft, but as the means by which the whole symbolic system of Freemasonry is understood.

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