INTERNATIONAL CO-FREEMASONRY Le Droit Humain BRITISH FEDERATION TRANSACTION 2 1. Substituted and Genuine By E. L. GARDNER, P.M., 33° 2. Who is Hiram Abiv? By J. C. H. WILLOX, P.M., 32° 3. Are Masons Free? By A. L. BERRY, P.M., 33°For Master Masons INTERNATIONAL CO-FREEMASONRY BRITISH FEDERATION TRANSACTION 2 |. Substituted and Genuine By E. L. GARDNER, P.M., 33° 2. Who is Hiram Abiv ? By J.C. H. WILLOX, P.M., 32° 3. Are Masons Free ? By A. L. Berry, P.M., 33 “SHAMBHALLA” Spring Hill, —— tittle Staughton, Bedfordshire MK44 2BS Tel: Colmworth (023062)548 ‘OFFICE OF THE GRAND SECRETARY 10, LADBROKE TERRACE LONDON, W.11 PRICE 1/6d.SUBSTITUTED AND GENUINE A loss may be absolute or relative. A book, for instance, may be burnt and destroyed or merely mislaid in the house. In both cases we may speak of its loss, though obviously with a difference in mind, for in the latter event the book may be found and restored. Similarly with a jewel that may be lost at sea, a mile deep in water. It is lost though one may know where it lies. Secrets may be lost in a very like sense for in an intellect- ual fashion we may know something of what they are and yet be unable to use them. Theg....8.... s of Freemasonry are of this nature. That all life is one, for instance, is a &++..8... It becomes found for any one of us as we in ourselves realise that unity. Its intellectual belief OF appre- hension is a very poor substitute for the truth, or secret. This can be found in experience alone. This study is an attempt to show the nature of the hidden secrets and the direction in which we should pursue our search in the hope of some success towards their discovery. In Masonry, the building art and its implements are used. as an appropriate system of symbolism whereby conduct in life may be taught, and probably all of us would acknow- ledge that as used in Craft Masonry they are strikingly appropriate. There are, however, in the use of the implement- symbols, certain features which, by their very fnappropriate- hess, present a clue whereby a deep and underlying meaning may be perceived and discovered. Such ‘blinds,’ as one may call them, are used, for instance, in the p:...5, the fearful and gruesome p . . . . s imposed, or rather threatened to be imposed, if certain apparently unimportant s...s are unlawfully revealed. Why do we retain them in our Co- Masonic Order? Because of their immense significance! These p....s are described as entailing im each case a horrible d.. . . which, it is stated emphatically, will be inflicted if the s . . .s of the degree are betrayed—though one shudders to think what would happen to the R.W.M. 3