Pitman Lodge No. 197 F&AM

Message from the Worshipful Master

Dear Brothers of Pitman Masonic Lodge,

It is said "Masonry makes good men better".

In the symbolism of masonry, perfection is abstained by a process of taking away what is not needed or what is holding us back. So, as we build our spiritual building we must take away, not add, to ourselves. In Operative Masonry you take the gavel and/or chisel to the Rough Ashlar and by taking away what is not needed you create a Perfect Ashlar. No stroke of a gavel or chisel can add anything to a Rough Ashlar; it may only remove. So, the Perfect Ashlar is already within the Rough Ashlar. Perfection, then, is already within us, all we must do is chisel away all vices and over abundances in our lives. All that is required is to remove the roughness, the excrescences, to show the perfect man and Mason and to find the kingdom within. Finally, in Luke 17:21, of the Great Light we read, "The kingdom of heaven is within you."

Gutzon Borglum, the famous American sculptor and Freemason, was once asked how he carved stone into statues and answered saying, "It is 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. By this statement, we see that images are made by a process of taking away and that Borglum learned the symbolism that the Fraternity offered.

You do not know who Gutzon Borglum was? He started the Confederate Memorial on Stone Mountain in Georgia and worked on Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills of South Dakota until his death.

Remember my brothers , God loves you and so do I.

Fraternally yours,

Joseph Dinovi

Worshipful Master

Pitman Masonic Lodge

Attest: Michael Paris, Secretary

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