Conclusion 273those who wonder about the essential questions of both their origins
and their destiny. The initiatory way from which traditional freema-
sonry emerged is of a sacred nature. Embodying a quest for the tran-
scendent, a bond with the sacred, it is humanism in its complete and
existential acceptance. At the same time this existentialism is essential-
ism. It erases any duality between subject and object, between the path
and the finality.
In order to grasp these things, which touch on the Absolute, there
is no need to employ the abstract vocabulary of philosophers. Such
things do exist because they can be felt and experienced. No other ini-
atory path has managed to better express the inexpressible. The
medieval freemason, the builder of the cathedrals, never viewed himself
as anything more than the imagier of an infinitely more elevated work:
the Temple of the Eternal One who dwells within Man, the Heavenly
Jerusalem, symbol of the universality of all men belonging to all times
and races, temples of Immortality and Perfection.
This Great Work involves Consciousness, another aspect of
Infinity. Humans can lay claim to this perfection because they possess
it as something virtual, a sacred trust of which we must become
aware. The great lesson to be drawn from this by all humanity is found
in the words of the good Jeremiah: "Behold the days come, oracle of
the Eternal ... I will set my law within them and write it on their
hearts... Behold the days come that city shall be built." The apostles
Paul and James in turn stressed the divine truth of the indestructible
unity and reciprocal demands of faith and works in order to aspire to
transcendence.
The key to the Holy of Holies promised to all is Love, the major
factor of the comprehensive illumination: Love for everything in
Creation that is an immanent sign of the Light from Above; Love for all
beings, who are all brothers by virtue of the sublime grace of this Love,
which is the presence within them of the Absolute and the ability to per-
ceive this presence. This Love, which is Conciousness, has nothing to
do with science, learning, degrees, individual distinctions, and fragile
and sometimes deceptive assumptions based on circumstance.
We can recall some other words of Jeremiah heralding the New
Jerusalem: "And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and