The Tenets

The Masonic tenets are Brotherly Love, Relief, and Truth.

Tenets are cardinal; they direct a person's, group's, and country's life. Winston Churchill was the United Kingdom's Prime Minister during the Second World War. One of his tenets was "Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never -- in nothing great and small -- large and petty -- Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense." The Boy Scouts of America is a United States scouting organization. One of its tenets is "Be prepared." One of the United States of America's tenets is "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."

Tenets are powerful; they determine what a person, group, and country become. Winston Churchill never gave in. The Boy Scouts of America are prepared. The United States of America protects its citizens' Life, Liberty, and pursuit of Happiness.

So in following tenets, one becomes those tenets. So Masons following the tenets of Brotherly Love, Relief, and Truth, become loving, helpful, and truth-seeking.

What tenets do you follow? What have you become?

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The Pot of Incense

The Pot of Incense, a Masonic symbol, represents a pure heart.

To follow your heart means to follow your feelings. The purer your heart, the purer your feelings. A pure heart is synonymous with pure feelings.

The purer your feelings, the purer your behavior. For example, pure depression causes pure quitting; pure confidence causes pure persisting.

The purer your behavior, the purer your life. For example, pure quitting causes pure failure; pure persisting causes pure success.

Therefore in purifying your heart, you purify your life. And your type of life follows from your type of heart.

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The Blazing Star, The Hammer

The Blazing Star, a Masonic symbol, represents divine providence.

Living a divinely provident life is to live a Godly planned life, contrasting with living a humanly planned life. Which life is better? It depends. Sometimes you need to be a hammer, and sometimes a blazing star.

The Hammer:

Living a humanly planned life is pursuing goals that you desire. In this life, you are hammering your way to success. Through your steely willpower, you hammer through your obstacles. You are the hammer.

The Blazing Star:

Living a Godly planned life is accepting goals that God desires. In this life, you are trusting in God's plan, achieving success. Through His plan, you are guided around your obstacles. You are the blazing star.

Star versus Hammer:

The blazing star, guided faithfully in faith, is unshakable; whereas the hammer, hammering willfully in will, is unstoppable. However, the blazing star is peaceful; while the hammer is turbulent. The former refreshes; the latter jades.

So pursue your goals -- hammer-like. But when jaded, let go and let God -- blazing star-like.

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The Mirror

In physics, Newton's third law of motion and Einstein's general theory of relativity are important. Since physics is the science of reality, we can use the law and theory to explain human life.

Newton's third law of motion states that for every action there is an equal reaction. In other words, if you do good to others, others will do good to you. And if you do evil to others, others will do evil to you.

Einstein's general theory of relativity states that mass distorts space, causing gravity. So the more massive an object is, the more it distorts space, causing stronger gravity. And the less massive an object is, the less it distorts space, causing weaker gravity. In other words, the more massive your actions are, the stronger consequences gravitate toward you. And the less massive your actions are, the weaker consequences gravitate toward you.

Combining Newton's law and Einstein's theory, the more good you do to others, the stronger good gravitates toward you. And the less good you do to others, the weaker good gravitates toward you. Contrastively, the more evil you do to others, the stronger evil gravitates toward you. And the less evil you do to others, the weaker evil gravitates toward you.

Life is The Mirror.

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The Spade

The Spade, a Masonic symbol, means to remove the rubbish of vice and ignorance.

Vices are habits that negatively affect your life. Examples can be laziness, rashness, and lust. Ignorance is not knowing how to accomplish something. An example can be driving to a new destination without knowing the directions.

Vices:

A lazy person, acting too slowly, cannot succeed. This person acts too late. He never seems to catch up. A rash person, acting too quickly, cannot succeed. This person acts, making many serious mistakes. So instead of saving time, he wastes time. A lustful person, pleasuring himself often, cannot succeed. This person's actions are often unrelated to his goal. He pursues pleasure more than purpose.

Ignorance:

An ignorant person, not knowing what to do, cannot succeed. Can you imagine a builder building without a blueprint, an aviator aviating without air-navigating devices, or a sailor sailing without sea-navigating devices? To be ignorant is to be lost.

Removing:

To remove vice and ignorance, you must have self-control and knowledge. Controlling yourself, you control your destiny. Knowing your trade, you knowingly accomplish your goals.

So what is success? Controlling yourself, accomplishing knowingly.

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The Pythagorean Theorem

The Pythagorean Theorem, a Masonic symbol, teaches Masons to be general lovers of the arts and sciences.

The Pythagorean Theorem states that given a right triangle, the hypotenuse's length squared = a leg's length squared + the other leg's length squared. The legs form an L-shaped 90 degree angle, while the hypotenuse slopes from the top of the L to the tail end of the L.

The Pythagorean Theorem is art, in that it deals with shapes; it is science, in that it is mathematical. Shapely and mathematically, this theorem explains success. Success shapely forms a triangular path: successfully thinking to behaving, behaving to living, and thinking to living. Success mathematically fits the Pythagorean Theorem: successfully thinking to behaving squared + successfully behaving to living squared = successfully thinking to living squared.

Given this Pythagorean Success Theorem, the more successful you are in thinking behaviorally or behaving lively, the more successful you are in thinking lively. Thinking lively is the hypotenuse of success.

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The Square

The Square, a Masonic symbol, means to square your actions by the square of virtue.

To square your actions means to align them. Your actions align to your thoughts. Your thoughts may be virtuous or vice-filled. Thinking virtuously, you behave virtuously; thinking vice-fully, you behave vice-fully. The reason is that thoughts affect behavior, cause behavior, are behavior.

Virtues and Vices:

Virtues and vices can relate to religion. For example, Christian virtues are love, hope, and faith; whereas Christian vices are hate, despair, and doubt. Christians strive to perfect their love, hope, and faith. Love is strong affection for others; hope is positive expectancy; faith is trust in yourself and God. Christians strive to avoid hate, despair, and doubt. Hate is strong antipathy for others; despair is negative expectancy; doubt is distrust in yourself and God.

Good and Bad Behavior:

Thinking lovingly about others causes you to behave lovingly toward them, whereas thinking hatefully about others causes you to behave hatefully toward them. Thinking hopefully about life causes you to behave hopefully toward it, whereas thinking despairingly about life causes you to behave despairingly toward it. Thinking faithfully about yourself and God causes you to behave faithfully toward yourself and Him, whereas thinking doubtfully about yourself and God causes you to behave doubtfully toward yourself and Him.

Blessings and Curses:

Behaving lovingly toward others causes them to behave lovingly toward you, whereas behaving hatefully toward others causes them to behave hatefully toward you. Behaving hopefully toward life causes it to physically manifest your hope, whereas behaving despairingly toward life causes it to physically manifest your despair. Behaving faithfully toward yourself and God causes you to succeed in all things, whereas behaving doubtfully toward yourself and God causes you to fail in all things.

Summarily, thinking virtuously brings you manifold blessings; thinking vice-fully brings you manifold curses.

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The Ionic, Doric, and Corinthian Columns

The Ionic, Doric, and Corinthian columns represent wisdom, strength, and beauty. The columns are Masonic symbols.

To do a goal successfully, it must be done with wisdom, strength, and beauty. Wisdom is the necessary knowledge; strength is the necessary persistence; beauty is the necessary style. Wisdom, strength, and beauty make up the success triad.

Wisdom: Knowledge enables. The more you know your trade, the better at it you will be. Ignorance disables. The less you know your trade, the worse at it you will be. Given this, you should avidly learn your trade.

Strength: Persistence accomplishes. A winner never quits before the goal is accomplished. A loser always quits before the goal is accomplished. Given this, you should never start something that you can't or won't complete, and always start something that you can and will complete. Can + Will = Persistence.

Beauty: Style attracts. How you pursue your goal is just as important as accomplishing your goal. If you pursue your goal honorably, you attract admirers. If you pursue your goal dishonorably, you attract haters. Admirers encourage you; haters discourage you.

After goal accomplishment, your finished product has some degree of wisdom, strength, and beauty. Product wisdom can be defined as usefulness, product strength as durability, and product beauty as aesthetics. For example, if you are a great architect, your finished building will be very useful, durable, and aesthetic.

The wisdom, strength, and beauty of a product depend on the wisdom, strength, and beauty of the production.

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The Hourglass

The Hourglass, a Masonic symbol, means human life.

Human life is short. Your time is brief on this planet. Time speeds on whether you enjoy it or not, pursue your goals or not, or help the distressed or not. If you act positively, you use time wisely; if not, you waste time foolishly.

According to physics, time is the fourth dimension. The other three dimensions are length (or depth), width, and height. The dimensions interact with each other. Changing length, width, or height changes an object's appearance. Changing time does likewise. For example, the earth looked differently a thousand years ago, and will look differently a thousand years from now.

Time changes things -- for better or worse. Each of us has a piece of time; each of us has some power to change things. Though your time is finite, your changing things is infinite.

In an infinite line of standing dominoes, knocking down one domino successively knocks down the other dominoes infinitely. In an infinite line of events, changing one event successively changes the other events infinitely.

Therefore your time gives you power to change events particularly, changing them universally.

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The Virtues

The principal Masonic virtues are fortitude, prudence, temperance, and justice.

To be successful in life, you must have fortitude, prudence, temperance, and justice. If any one of these virtues is missing, you will not be successful. Fortitude is important, because you need it to persist through obstacles. Prudence is important, because you need it to make good decisions. Temperance is important, because avoiding extremes keeps you balanced. Justice is important, because it keeps you on the straight path and away from the crooked path.

By persisting through obstacles, making good decisions, avoiding extremes, and keeping on the straight path, you cannot fail. Success is ensured. Fortitude + prudence + temperance + justice = success. Contrastively, spinelessness or foolishness or excess or injustice = failure. By quitting, making bad decisions, embracing extremes, or keeping on the crooked path, you cannot succeed. Failure is ensured.

Indeed, virtues equal success; weaknesses equal failure.

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The Beehive

The Beehive, a Masonic symbol, means to be industrious.

An industrious person busily pursues his goal; a slothful person idles away his time. The former moves; the latter rests. Movement causes change; rest causes sameness.

If you are unhappy about your present life, you need to change it by moving. Movement solves all of life's problems -- if it is positive and solution-focused. A motivated problem-solver lives happily; a motivated complainer lives unhappily.

According to physics, Momentum = Mass x Velocity. In other words, your momentum toward a goal = mass of work done x velocity of doing work. To increase your momentum toward a goal, you can either get more work done or work faster. Actually, getting more work done is working faster.

Motivated movement moves much.

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The Compass

The Compass, a Masonic symbol, means to exercise self-restraint and self-control.

To control your destiny, you need to control your behavior. Uncontrolled behavior endangers your destiny. We have heard accounts of people killing others in a fit of rage, people cheating on their spouse in a fit of passion, and people abandoning their goals in a fit of fear. One major slip in self-control can permanently alter your destiny.

Not only does self-control prevent life mistakes, it also accomplishes goals. To accomplish challenging goals, you need to control your behavior by decreasing unnecessary behavior and increasing necessary behavior. For example, instead of watching television, you work on your goal. The more behavior is restricted to a goal, the quicker the goal is accomplished.

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The Anchor and Ark

The Anchor and Ark, a Masonic symbol, means having a well-grounded hope and a well-spent life.

A well-grounded hope is assuring yourself of a possibility; a well-spent life is a successful life. To have a successful life, you must assure yourself of this possibility. Assuring yourself of possibly having a successful life moves you in this direction. Just as gasoline is car fuel, hope is behavioral fuel. The stronger the hope, the stronger the fuel. Stronger behavioral fuel leads to faster success.

No matter how dark your present circumstance is -- hope, the behavioral fuel, gets you through it. However, if you run out of behavioral fuel, you emotionally depress, behaviorally quitting. So you must regularly fill yourself up with hope. Filling up at the hope station, choose premium instead of regular.

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