The
        interior work of research can be
        successful only if it is done under control of a rigorous
        Discipline, that only we can discover and exert. It
        should already be clear to everyone that, in our
        interiority, lying to ourselves will get us nowhere.
        However, the ability of man of lying to himself is almost
        infinite. The attainment of
        an interior Discipline is one of the tasks of the Masons.
        It represents one of the most binding "works"
        of the masonic life. At the beginning, the interior work
        is symbolically called "stone rough-shaping".  The Art
        helps us
        discover inside ourselves the rules to follow which,
        being artistic canons, do not have a rigidly coercive
        nature but rather an inspiring nature. However, like in
        the Art, we must devote ourselves with great seriousness
        to learning the Mastery, which alone can give us the
        means for the creation of our works of Art.  | 
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