7. The Essence and Task of Freemasonry from the Point of View of Spiritual Science I

Let us take our start from the fact that the Freemasons were the builders of the pyramids, of the mystery temples, and of the churches. You will easily gain the conviction—especially by reading Vitruvius[^7]—that the manner in which architecture was formerly studied is quite different from our present method. One did not study it at that time by making calculations, but instead, definite intuitions were imparted by means of symbols.