In Freemasonry, do we spend too much of our mind on perfecting ritual and not enough on using it to create better selves and making ourselves more aware of the laws which govern us (and others)?
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting…trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home -Wordsworth
• Ideals: Cayce repeatedly stresses the choice of an ideal as the foundation of the spiritual path. "And O that all would realize... that what we are... is the result of what we have done about the ideals we have set" (1549-1). We may choose any ideal we feel drawn to. As we attempt to apply it in our lives, God will guide us further, perhaps inspiring us to revise our choice of ideal. The highest ideal, says Cayce, is Christ; however, the readings recognize "the Christ spirit" in some form as the basis for religions other than Christianity.
This fits in with the purpose of Freemasonry. Maybe Hiram is the individual (and collective) Mind.
There may of course be an actual event recorded. For example, candidates who were unwilling to discard their worldly possessions and psychic powers before entering the temple.
