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Montana Freemason November 2013 Volume 89 Number 5

The Group New Craftsmen to the Quarries

Ernest G. Jackson
Bald Creek #397, North Carolina
Since time began, groups of people have banded Belgrade Lodge - 68 / 4
together for betterment. As this developed, self- 7399 - Allen C. Sevareid Jr. Raised - 07/23/2013
improvement became free thinking and independence
on one hand, and of the group, membership, standards Diamond City Lodge - 7 / 5
and values, brotherhood, ideas and ideals on the 7260 - Clive H. Townsend Raised - 08/10/2013
other. Both seemed important for self-improvement. Bozeman Lodge - 18 / 5
7590 - Cahill M. Maffei Raised - 08/14/2013

Perceptions began. What are the needs of man?
Freedom? Control? Knowledge? Different parts of the
group began their own organizations.

A statement of one organization became, “We take
good men and make them better.” This standard
of quality over quantity was achieved with limits.
Membership was based not on position, profession,
or wealth, but on development within.

An example of development is the ability to think and
to love. This development means learning, becoming,
the realization of ideas and ideals of individual and
group development.

Development, as with many endeavors, usually isn’t
achieved without failures, of things that shouldn’t
happen, but they can. Failures require thought
processes to resolve, an effort of learning.

Another important development is in the learning,
knowing, and acceptance of self. The process creates
a satisfaction, the love and happiness that begins
from within, and becomes with sharing. The process
creates a purpose of freedom.

Knowing the self assists a person in becoming
what they have been given, choose, and create, of
responsibility for thoughts and actions. As we each
experience this freedom of thought, this opportunity
of freedom, freedom also becomes an obligation,
of giving the same rights and responsibilities to
everyone. The rights and responsibilities of freedom
of thought is a basis of freedom.

The problems of society, the threats to our freedoms
in a troubled world, can be resolved. Creative solutions
are related to freedom of thought.

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