FUNCTION OVER FORM: OUR TIME AS MEASUREMENT

Time does matter.   In 1998, Stephen Hawking wrote an essay for Prospect Magazine, on the 10th anniversary of his book A Brief History of Time. (prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/evenbrieferhistoryoftime). He explained the idea came from lectures he gave at Harvard in 1982.  By 1984 he had a first draft. "I told my literary agent that I wanted my book on airport bookstalls. The agent made polite noises, but clearly didn't think it was possible." He picked publisher Bantam Books which assigned an editor, Peter Guzzardi, "who made me rewrite my first draft in terms that he could understand." and then changed the title  From The Big Bang to Black Holes, A Short History of Time to A Brief History of Time.  People had always wanted answers to the big questions. Where did we come from? How did the world begin? What is the meaning and design behind it all? Scriptural explains on creation had seemed less credible. Superstition offers far-fetched answers. And many people felt the 'real science was too difficult for them.  Hawking took up the challenge.  "Not everyone can be or wants to be a theoretical physicist, but most people can understand the basic ideas, if they are presented clearly without equations."  It was a difficult read for me. But it did leave a taste. " It does not matter too much if people can't follow all the arguments.  They can still get the flavour of the intellectual quest: to understand the universe on the basis of rational laws." So though we don't understand time, we use it. Freemasonry is an enduring sensate form of it that people unknowingly use to measure time and progress. Consider, how our continuous history; uneven, without valance, unenforceable self-development, based on endurable but ancient ethics- us.