What age-old meanings lie behind the strange, unchanging rituals and symbolsof Freemasonry, and can we relate them to our contemporary lives? Freemasons have their own answers to these questions, but they are not readilyavailable to the outsider, nor are they couched in language that is relevanttoday.  

This new volume explains Freemasonry's part in a long tradition of Westernmysticism, going back to the Middle Ages if not beyond, and shows the Craft tobe a complex framework for inner growth, a developmental psychology whichpresents the 20th-century Mason with a viable discipline for the pursuit ofself-knowledge.