A Brother Asks: Is Mastery Different for Each Person?

 

A Brother Asks: How does one "master" something that is (by definition) potentially different for each person?

Coach: It might be considered different if you do not truly understand what that thing is.  However, we are not talking about something that is by definition potentially different for each person.  We are talking about something that is the same for everyone. 

Let me expand upon this.  

The end that each of us is directed toward is to Erect a Spiritual Building and to do so agreeably to God's Rules & Designs.  THAT special and sacred task REQUIRES mastering a very specific skill set that is pointed toward by the first two degree Rituals.

 You cannot accomplish this end without mastering that skill set that enables the ability to accomplish it.

Brother: So, what makes a man, a "better" man? 

Coach: What makes a GOOD man better is cultivating that aforementioned skill set and then applying that skill set to Erect a Spiritual Building and to do so agreeably to God's Rules & Designs.  Once you start that process, you cannot avoid becoming better.

Brother: Because we say so?

Coach: No.  Because the path that Ritual provides us says that we must do whatever it takes to erect that spiritual building agreeably to God's Rules & Designs.  And by default, since God's Rules & Designs are moral, implementing them into our erected spiritual building makes us better

Brother: But everyone's path to being "better" is going to be different.

Coach: Yes.  However, the skill set required to better oneself is standardized for Masons by way of God's Rules & Designs. How we go about that task will be uniquely our own.

 So, is mastery different for everyone?  Yes, because Beauty is put forth as a fingerprint of the master who creates it.  However,  That mastery was arrived at by implementing God's Rules & Designs, which can only be understood and applied by those who took the time to cultivate specific skills.