How do the degrees of freemasonry aid in self-improvement?
As one progresses through the degrees, the symbols take on deeper and deeper meanings. As an apprentice he must go through the trials of life, symbolized as the rough ashlar and refine himself. Striving for the perfect ashlar, the perfect cube, and the solid foundation. Before he arrives at perfection he finds that his labors have earned him the title of fellow craft, and now he is entitled to receive wages. The effort to refine himself leads the candidate to find that he can do more when he is making good decisions and begins to attain success, he is a good man and he has begun to knowtice the change that he has undergone and feels a sense of pride. No longer is he motivated by selfish greed alone, or is he seduced by every lusty attempt at his attention from the TV, he begins to feel confident in the impulse from his heart when making descisions. When the freemason achieves the summit of his experience as a Master Mason he realizes that something very important has been lost, somethi
