The Lost Word
The Lost Word is a subject of Masonic symbolic interpretation. Albert G. Mackey treats it as an image of the search for divine truth. In his discussion, the idea of seeking knowledge matters more than the narrative particulars attached to the symbol.[1]
Published interpretations
Mackey relates the search to the limits of human understanding and to the hope of fuller knowledge beyond mortal life. This is his theological reading of the symbol.[1]
Walter Leslie Wilmshurst develops a related interpretation in The Meaning of Masonry. He describes a person who recognises moral imperfection and incomplete self-knowledge, and who seeks to recover a fuller spiritual understanding. His discussion draws on the religious idea of humanity's fall from an earlier condition of completeness.[2]
See also
- Walter Leslie Wilmshurst
- Historical Origins and Evolution of Freemasonry
- Summary of the different rites
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Albert G. Mackey, The Symbolism of Freemasonry, chapter XXXI, “The Lost Word”. Project Gutenberg edition.
- ↑ W. L. Wilmshurst, The Meaning of Masonry, chapter II, “Masonry as a Philosophy”, pp. 59–61.
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