{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 93/1906-01-02/p015","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now Freemasonry is something which can indeed provide people with scope for reflection. The name itself connects with two perceptions differing totally from each other. Some claim—and they are no very great party within Freemasonry—that all Freemasonry originated in the work done by masons, in the craft of erecting buildings; while the other opinion considers this to be a childish and naive conception and claims that Freemasonry was in reality always an art to do with the soul; and that the symbols taken from the work of masons—such as, for example, apron, hammer, trowel, chisel, compass, rule, square, plumb-line, spirit-level, etc.—are to be seen as symbolic of soul development. Thus, by the expression ‘Masonry’ is to be understood nothing else than the building of the inner person, the work on the perfection of self. If you talk with a Freemason today, you can then experience him telling you that it is a childish and naive outlook that believes that Freemasonry has ever had anything to do with the work that masons do. On the contrary, it has never concerned itself with anything else than these things: the building of the Wonder Temple, which is the theatre of the human soul, the work on the human soul itself, which has to be perfected, and the art which one must apply to all this. Now all this is expressed in these symbols, so as not to expose it to profane eyes.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"20. The Royal Art in a New Form","site_heading":null,"date":"1906-01-02","location":null,"word_count":239,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/93/1906-01-02/p015","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"John M. 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Die eine behauptet — und das ist keine sehr große Partei innerhalb der Freimaurer -, daß alle Maurerei aus der Werkmaurerei, aus der Kunst, Gebäude zu erstellen, hervorgegangen sei; während die andere Partei das für eine kindlichnaive Auffassung erklärt und behauptet, daß die Freimaurerei in Wahrheit immer eine seelische Kunst gewesen sei und die von der Werkmaurerei hergenommenen Symbole -— wie zum Beispiel Schurzfell, Hammer, Kelle, Meißel, Zirkel, Lineal, Winkelmaß, Senkblei, Wasserwaage und so weiter - als Sinnbilder für die innere Arbeit am Menschen selbst zu betrachten seien. So daß unter dem Ausdruck «Maurerei» nichts anderes als das Bauen an dem inneren Menschen, die Arbeit an der eigenen Vervollkommnung zu verstehen sei. Wenn Sie heute mit einem Freimaurer sprechen, so können Sie erleben, daß man Ihnen sagt, es sei eine kindlich-naive Anschauung, zu glauben, daß die Freimaurerei jemals etwas zu tun gehabt hätte mit Werkmaurerei. 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