Light: Reason and Destination of Freemasonry

By Werner J. Kraftsik

The Symbolism of Light plays an important role in Masoniccustoms. Where does this Vocation and the Search for Lightcome from? So what is contained in this Symbol? The latestscientific findings clarify the Question of what Light is andMasons can find out, where their Seasrch for Light leads.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Books on Demand
• Release date: Feb 18, 2020
• ISBN: 9783750468146

Werner J. Kraftsik

Werner J. Kraftsik, Schriftsteller, Makler und Vater von drei Kindern, wurde in Salzgitter geboren. Er lebt im Rheinland, war zeitweise Klosterschüler, leistete einen freiwilligen Dienst bei der Bundesluftwaffe, studierte Versicherungswirtschaft in Köln, was seiner späteren Karriere in einem großen Versicherungskonzern nützte, die ihn weit über seine heimatlichen Grenzen in die Welt führten. Nach langjähriger erfolgreicher Tätigkeit als Versicherungsmakler, lebt er heute, als Pensionär am Mittelrhein.

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I dedicate this book to all those who make up my family in my life.

Freemasonry by their nature is as old as civil society. Both could not develop differently from each other. If entirely bourgeois society must be an offspring of Freemasonry. because the flame in the Focal Point is also a discharge of the sun

Source: Ernst and Falk, Masonic Talks

Table of Contents

Prolog

What is Light anyway?

Perception, Meaning and Veneration

Light as electromagnetic Wave

Elohim

What is Absolute?

The Old Charges of 1723!

STOPP

What does the Light teach us?

Epilog

The First Light

References to Sources and Pictures

Prolog

Occasionally it is claimed that there are no coincidences and that everything that happens is predetermined in some way. As a rule, I contradict such general and unprovable statements.

However, there are situations in which I too ask myself why an event that has just happened, a special information or getting to know a person occurs right now, because it - apparently - fits my current personal life situation exactly.

What was my Situation?

I was relatively denominationally oriented through Childhood, school and in the time of my Education. In the beginning I had a rather diffuse feeling that what my Religion Teachers wanted to teach me could not stand up to logical Tests. I was also alienated by the fact that on the one Hand there was constant talk of a loving God;, on the other Hand the same God threatened with draconian punishments that were to be final, that is, valid for all Eternity.

During my School Time I learned to appreciate the Natural Sciences, which offered me conclusive Explanations for the origin of the Earth and the Plants, Animals and Humans living on it and I realized that our Earth is probably only one of numerous Worlds in a Universe that is probably unmanageable for us Humans. First irritations arose from the Statement that the Earth was created in six, or seven Days ago.

Like many boys, I had spent a long and enjoyable in my Childhood playful with Dinosaurs and knew a little bit about the Times they lived in and, above all, when they probably disappeared so relatively suddenly.

One may argue about the causes at the appropriate place - but they died about 65 Million Years ago, and as far as is known, Man was not yet on earth at that time.

In seven Days the Earth was created?

What about the 65 Million Years?

The Divine Calendar was explained to me:

In the second letter of Peter, verse 8, writes Peter:

Let yourself not this one thing escape you, beloved: One day with the Lord is like a Thousand Years, and a Thousand Years are like one Day.

(PS. 90(89),Holy Scripture, Pattloch-Verlag, Aschaffenburg.

Even repeated attempts at Calculation revealed no Agreement, neither with the Time of Extinction, nor with the preceding Times of the Dinosaurs, whose occurrence is dated to a good 230 Million Years.

My doubts were intensified when in the story of creation (Genesis) Fall of Man; and the subsequent Expulsion from paradise were described.

It is perhaps presumptuous to make this comparison in the Relationship with a loving God.

But I am sure that my Father would never have punished me so severely for such an Offence, and would have banned me from the Parental Home (Paradise) for all Time. A punishment forever; is for me incompatible with infinite Love.

The Fratricide of Abel by Cain led to another - Human - banishment.

What confused me enormously is the Statement that Cain went east of Eden, away from the Lord's temple and took a Wife there:

Genesis 4,16-17,Holy Scripture Pattloch-Verlag , Aschaffenburg

Where did this Woman suddenly come from?

This question is also not answered.

If one continues to occupy oneself with the contents of the Bible, one realizes that there is something wrong with either the Bible or with the described God, something that cannot be right, which strengthened and deepened my doubts about the teachings that I have been taught.

The Rules proclaimed there, including the divine punishments, are for me records of people who, in the Spirit of the Time, tried to give the emerging Communities rules that would enable them to live together peacefully,

Those who claimed to know the will of God, the Theologians, determined their respective rules, so that Religion, Denomination(s), became the source of many sufferings.

I could not follow these Confessions, because I think the Cause, the Principle of our Existence, is too great for this Principle to demand such narrow Rules and Penalties.

I was and remained a Seeker who continued to search for the Meaning of his Life and the Recognition of the Principle that has created and preserved our Existence to this Day.

A Brother, who I hold in high esteem, pointed me to the book by the Physicist, M. H. Niemz, and "Lucy with –C -, which deals with the whereabouts of the Soul after Death from a Scientific Point of View

There is talk about Light as the Cause - from a physical Point of View - of the Soul, which returns; to the primordial Light at the speed of Light and what is to be understood by this Light.

It became particularly clear to me why the > Light < plays an essential, if not the most important role in Masonic Rituals.

For me, the Cause of our Existence can be explained, also from a Scientific Point of View, and I only now have the feeling to fully understand what the Symbolism of Light in the Rituals of the Freemasons, especially the Scottish Rite, means.

Because I doubt whether the Brothers and Sisters in this covenant feel the same way, this book was written and I hope to give both Suggestions and satisfactory Answers.

Werner J. Kraftsik, January 2020

At the beginning of each Lodge Work, old, traditional Dialogues take place between the Worshipful Master and the Wardener of the Lodge.

These Dialogues, the excerpts quoted now and later, are taken from the Scottish rite by which my Lodge works. They are not just Ritual alternating Dialogs, but point to the meaning and purpose of the work.

So asks the Worshipful Master:

Br. /Sr. Junior (second) Warden, why did you dedicate yourself to Freemasonry?