The Seven Liberal Arts and Sciences occupy a familiar place within the symbolic world of Freemasonry, yet their original purpose is often only dimly understood. Far from being decorative remnants of a medieval curriculum, they once formed a complete architecture of intellectual and moral formation: a disciplined ascent from language and reasoning to number, harmony, geometry, and the contemplation of cosmic order itself.
In this lecture, we explore the older world from which the Liberal Arts emerged, the vision of education inherited by speculative Freemasonry, and the hidden assumptions about knowledge, judgement, proportion, and self-cultivation still embedded within the Craft today. From the Trivium to the Quadrivium, from cathedral schools to Masonic symbolism, this is an exploration of the hidden architecture of the mind.
From the Quarries 
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