Post by Tamrin on Jul 31, 2009 8:13:18 GMT 10
Masonic Research
[Excerpt - Opening Address at the ANZMRC Conference on Saturday 4 October 2008
by M.W. Bro. Dr. Gregory Henry Levenston MD, JP,
Grand Master of the U.G.L. of N.S.W. and the A.C.T. - Linked Above]
[Excerpt - Opening Address at the ANZMRC Conference on Saturday 4 October 2008
by M.W. Bro. Dr. Gregory Henry Levenston MD, JP,
Grand Master of the U.G.L. of N.S.W. and the A.C.T. - Linked Above]
On behalf of the Masonic Jurisdiction of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory it gives me great pleasure to welcome you here this morning to the 9th Biennial Australian and New Zealand Masonic Research Conference featuring the presentation of the 2008 Kellerman lectures. And let me say just how close this jurisdiction was to losing our research lodge, and this hole in the force has been replaced by the Discovery Lodge of Research.
Masonic Education, Masonic Studies, and Masonic Research are very dear to me; my early mentor, in my mother lodge, Lodge Harold Herman Unity No 428 of this jurisdiction, was RWBro Harry Kellerman, who managed to get not only into my ear, but also into my heart, and into my soul.
According to Bro Harry, Freemasonry is a ‘system of education’. Part of that system is to ‘research’. We need to:
Masonic Education, Masonic Studies, and Masonic Research are very dear to me; my early mentor, in my mother lodge, Lodge Harold Herman Unity No 428 of this jurisdiction, was RWBro Harry Kellerman, who managed to get not only into my ear, but also into my heart, and into my soul.
According to Bro Harry, Freemasonry is a ‘system of education’. Part of that system is to ‘research’. We need to:
- discover knowledge past;
- prove legitimacy of same;
- prove the truth; and
- prove and justify the theoretical basis of the topics.
- deal with establishing and proving facts, not ideals, by comparing and contrasting substantiating sources;
- challenge and expand original thought;
- be useful and useable, and
- extend its influence to the ordinary Mason.
