Ernst and Falk: Dialogues for Freemasons, Continuation

Falk.

And yet I am still supposed to be to blame.

Ernst.

If the man of God A reference to Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt. speaks to the people of a land where milk and honey flow, should the people not long for it? And should they not grumble against the man of God if he leads them into arid deserts instead of this promised land?

Falk.

Now, now! Surely the damage cannot be so great—besides, I see that you have already worked at the graves of our ancestors Falk refers here to the symbolic rituals found in certain "higher degrees" of Freemasonry, which often focused on themes of mortality, historical lineage, and the search for lost secrets..

Ernst.

But they were not surrounded by flames In this context, flames represent the "light" of truth or divine clarity., but by smoke Smoke signifies the obscurity, confusion, and lack of substance Ernst feels he has encountered in the Lodge..