Erase the Tracing Board
A newly passed Fellow Craft approached the Worshipful Master: “Worshipful Master, I do not understand what I heard here tonight. Masonry is said to be the builder’s art, and yet we are told that a study of architecture and geometry is not necessary. Please explain this to me.”
The Worshipful Master replied, “The Craft does not belong to architecture, and likewise it does not belong outside of architecture. Geometry is an illusion, and the denial of geometry is absurd. If you want to learn the builder’s art, erase every superfice, line and point from the tracing board, and then study that.”