The Symbolic Wisdom of the Egyptians

and wherever it may be, and for the practical processing The author envisions Masonry as a system for organizing and applying all human learning toward ethical or social improvement. of all possible human knowledge and inquiry, whatever ever was and is. If this were so, it could be judged to what extent an individual member can know everything; namely, each only according to the measure of what he is and is capable of achieving. All else are detours, are human frailties original: "Menschlichkeiten." In this context, it refers to the unavoidable limitations and mistakes inherent to human nature., and the wise man views—even without formal brotherhood—those who fail as erring brothers who, just as much as he, have truth as their goal, and that the common lot of error A philosophical acknowledgment that no human possesses absolute truth; error is a shared human condition that should foster humility. weighs upon him just as heavily as upon them.