A Brother Asks: Where to Masons go who have grown tired of those members within the Craft who perpetuate the play but do not live or work towards the direction of what the play espouses?
Coach: Ah! A great question about our disenchanted masses! I take it that you are referring to people who you never see either in The Symbolic Lodge or any associated bodies.
Brother: Yes!
Coach: These members typically fall into three categories.
1) Most all of them eventually join our massive ever-growing alumni association.
2) A few remain members of the Lodge, even some associated bodies, but you will never see them ever attend any of them again, unless they are asked to attend to receive something.
3) A very rare few stick around anyway and actually do become what our ritual directs us to become. And some of these become likened in spirit to the little boy in Hans Christian Anderson's tale "The Emperor's New Clothes" where you'll find them actively and continually pointing out the naked emperor either directly or through extremely subtle yet potent satire, parody, or associated educational pieces directed at those who actually do want to do the Work our Ritual directs us to do.
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