A Rough Ashlar or a Perfect Ashlar? It 's up to you !!!

The rough ashlar, a stone from the quarry before Squaring, a symbol of an untutored man. A perfect ashlar, A stone squared and smooth, a symbol of an enlightened manhood. No stroke of a gavel or chisel can add anything to a rough ashlar, it may only remove. Perfection then is already within. The famous sculptor, "Gutzon Borglum" (also a freemason) was asked how he carved stone into statues. He answered, " It's very simple". I merely knock away with hammer and chisel the stone I do not need and the statue is there. It was there all the time. In the Great Light we read: "The kingdom of heaven is within you." Images are made by a process of taking away. The perfection is already within. All that is required is to remove the roughness, the excrescences, and "divesting our hearts and consciences of the vices and superfluities of life" to show forth the perfect man and Mason and to find the kingdom within.

A special note: Please wish your mother
and the mother of your children a very HAPPY AND HEALTHY MOTHERS DAY.

Fraternally,

Mark
Mark Hansen
Worshipful Master