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in a golden case and admire.
No. Tradition is anciently new, eternally, because Freemasonry is
symbology in movement. To answer, I think that Gianmario
Cazzaniga, in the well-known essay the religion of the moderns,
identifies in Freemasonry a real "project of modernity", which
has as its programmatic objective the liberation of "civil
society from every religious ethnic and cultural division" and
foreshadowing a "good society" ends up operating as a religious
reform in which the intellectuals, organizers of the public
opinion, are the new priests "At this precise moment in the
history of humanity, this project had the opportunity to re-
emerge with extraordinary force, as a new Renaissance. Therefore,
we must imagine that this space is not finished, that this place
is not a hidden enclosure, we are at the centre of this new
mutation. Those who imagine that by closing in on themselves,
marginalizing themselves from what is the context of struggle and
rebellion, can find a different space of intimacy are wrong.
Intimacy is to socialize everything that is lived because in a
social context the path between men is a fraternal sharing of
knowledge, of knowledge, of a common dream, which must find a new
space in a different dimension. All those who look to civil
society can identify themselves in a new ideal Renaissance where
the space of Man becomes "the agora of the whole universe" again.
Poverty unfortunately increases in many countries, including
ours, yet despite having the desire to deepen certain issues, the
economic possibilities with the crisis are shrinking.
GB -
Freemasonry deal with this today's aspect and above all can it bring about social class differences?
TB -
If Masonry were the representation of an administrative,
legislative, economic power, it would definitely make sense to
pose the problem of how to fight - from a normative point of view
- all those elements that today are degenerative for society.
Poverty is one of the aspects together with the marginalization
of the weaker sectors, together with the difficulty of entering
the labour market of young people, together with a cultural
impoverishment which is also manifested on the economic and
political social level within the institutions, together with
equity, the right to know. Freemasonry is not this, masonry is
something else. Masonry and the way in which these phenomena can
find a possible reading, for practical solutions. That is why
Freemasonry is an evolutionary context, on a cultural level, of
perspectives, that is why Freemasonry must return to speaking to
the hearts of men, that is why Masonry can not be fought with
instruments that limit its freedom and its possibility of
outsourcing all that can be positive to society as a whole to
solve problems. Freemasonry is a cultural vanguard and strength
and ability must be manifested as an institution of "an