LIMINAL STATE

If our how we come together depends on the attention and care we place on those conversations with masonic-curious men. I want to think those conversations reflect prevailing attitudes of a lodge that has had those conversations.  Rigid, doctrinaire, don't seem to do us justice but we continue to struggle to find balance by knowing and mindset of a particular lodge brotherhood.  Too much of one and too little of the other sets us on a wobbly orbit.  How do we find balance?  Since it is a search we know balance lies somewhere ahead of us- in our collective future.  Because we are an initiatory brotherhood, we are presented with ritual that needs be taught to each EA in a study group in which he is able to explore his own thinking while absorbing new information. Becoming a learner is first in the mind. Becoming excited about possibilities? where do we find that? and how do we know it?  Without the conviviality and fellowship, without order and decorum, where profound social differences are mediated and allowed for, a place where men are rewarded for virtue by working an ideology that justifies equality. That kind of lodge operates with consistency provided by guardrails, principles and ethics.  What you and I draw from freemasonry  that we apply to our own transformative( good to better) you may believe is as unique as opinion~ there is no accounting for taste. OR you might believe it is the point of masonry to bring this together so we can find ourselves.  Always and forever there is a tension living in a liminal state. Draw what comfort you might from the fact that you are not alone. And meanwhile we are in a state of becoming encouraged by the beauty and talent of brethren around us.  And for that we are fortunate.  Is this change or discovering secrets we've hidden in our psyche? Let me know what works for you.