Lodge Southern Cross #44 AF & AM
Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon

The Radio of Masonry1

by W.Bro. W. Miller

As we sit in our cosy corner of an evening, with the horn of the radio set at our elbow, the music, songs and speeches of our brethren fifteen hundred miles away at Los Angeles ring through the room as naturally as if they were less than a stone's throw from us, borne at the rate of one hundred and sixty thousand miles a second on that subtle elastic medium which pervades all space. The prying inquisitiveness of the intellectual force with which the human animal has been endowed has added one more triumph to its record!

Where will it all end? Our words, our actions, even our very thoughts are invisibly harnessed to the farthest ends of Infinity. The words now leaving my mouth cause pulsations in the air, and these, though invisible to human eyes, expand in every direction until they have passed around the globe, producing a change in the whole atmosphere. Nor will a single circum-gyration complete the effect. The sentence I am now uttering will alter the whole atmosphere through all future time.

This subtle medium about us is one vast library on whose pages are forever written all that man has ever said or woman whispered. Not a word has escaped mortal lips, whether in defence of virtue or in perversion of the truth, not a cry of agony has been uttered by the oppressed, not an insincere or false flattery of a deceiver, but has been registered indelibly upon the atmosphere we breathe.

Did you, as a child, read every morning on the walls of your little bedroom the gilded text "Thou God Seest Me", and thoroughly appreciate its great truth? These realms of religious thought are ever invaded by the most modern scientific demonstrations. No matter how many storms have raised the atmosphere into commotion and whirled it into countless forms, no matter how many conflicting waves have mixed and crossed each other, the path of each pulsation is definite and subject to the laws of mathematics. To follow them, of course, requires an analysis superior to all human accomplishment - how vastly inferior to the Divine!

This radio makes us pause. It teaches us that the vibrations and changes which our very words, thoughts and actions produce upon the Universe can never cease their action and reaction till Time shall be no more. The great truths of Masonry, emphasizing the necessity to so conduct ourselves that the result may be acceptable to God and honourable to our Ancient Fraternity, are more than mere expressions of duty, more than contributions towards the better well-being of society in all its branches. They are part and parcel of the invisible factors operating in the Universe, and, whether we know it or not, the whole of nature is involved. The dreadful responsibility of keeping ourselves "in tune with the Infinite" by "keeping down all vain and unbecoming thoughts so that all our thoughts, words and actions may ascend to the Throne of Grace pure and undefiled" is brought home to us by this wonderful engine recently developed, impressing us with the fact that we do not belong to ourselves, but are servants upon whom is imposed the command to respect the laws of the Divine Creator.

It seems a startling fact that the most secret workings of our minds and hearts are each moment spread out in legible characters on the whole material Uni verse - that they are so woven into its texture that they will constitute a part of its web and woof forever. To fail to realise or believe this is to go in the face of the most advanced achievements of physical science, for, after all, what are our outward words and actions but the external manifestations of inward thought and purpose, which constitute an efficient agency of celestial potency?

The tenets of Freemasonry stand out conspicuously at this time as ever in harmony with the "Music of the Spheres."

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1 "The Square", R.J. Templeton, editor. p. 15-17

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