Think

The Apprentice's Book

“By initiating you into its mysteries, Freemasonry invites you to become elite men, wise men, or thinkers, raised above the mass of beings who do not think.

Not to think is to consent to be dominated, led, directed, and treated too often as a beast of burden.

It is by his intellectual faculties that man is distinguished from the brute. — Thought makes him free and gives him the rule of the world. — To think is to reign.

But the Thinker has always been an exception. — In the past, when man had the leisure to devote himself to meditation, he got lost in dreams; nowadays it falls into the opposite excess. The struggle for life so absorbs him that there is no time left to calmly meditate and cultivate the supreme Art of Thinking.

Well, this Art, called the Great Art, the Royal Art or Art par excellence, it is up to Freemasonry to revive it among us.”

-Oswald Wirth