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什麼是美生會? 美生会是一个男性的兄弟会组织,源自中世纪石工匠的兄弟会。据说是由中世纪建造教堂的工匠及英格兰与苏格兰的分会开始发源至全世界。 美生会是世界性的,包容不同国籍、宗教、信仰或政治主张。入会条件很间单,即:要相信有神、品德良好、具中上才智、身体健全足以执行美生会员之职责。入会者必须出于自身的自由意念,而不是经他人鼓吹说服才加入。入会申请须经会内审核认可,入会者要有求知欲,真诚希望为他人做更多服务。加入美生会不是为了个人牟利、升迁或其他非份的企图。美生会与任何政治宗教均无衝突,它建立在以神为父,以人为兄弟的基本原则之上,不影响个人对社会、道德或宗教的责任。无神论者不能加入美生。对国家忠贞是入会的必要条件,唯有爱国者得以加入美生。美生会并非保险机构,在会员失业、生病、发生意外或死亡之时,并不理赔。 很多外人说美生会是秘密组织。秘密组织会隐藏所在,会员亦不对外公开。美生会并未隐匿其存在,美生会堂都座落在明显街廊,会员及职员的名册都印行可查;其宪章法条与宗旨亦刊印发行;会员有公开游行。分会有会刊,总会发行年报。但入会仪式、会员间互认的手势、暗语等则不对外公开。仪式不公开并非为了隐藏事实,而是让过程更令人印象深刻;更能培养入会者对他人真心服务,推广人类的和谐友爱。美生会的手势暗语,是会员间的共同语言,更是友爱具体行动的象徵;透过它,会员得以援助困境中的兄弟而不伤其自尊。因此可说,美生会有其秘密,但并非秘密组织。 美生会不是宗教、不是教会,是一种结合各种宗教的信仰,它与任何宗教都非敌对,而是朋友,强调所有宗教都认同的真理,认同其成立的根源。 美生会不是宗教,但具有宗教性。 美生会的宗旨在于教导。教导好人成为更好的人。教导神为父,众人为兄弟。教导知识和品德的必要性。教导人要节制情欲。教导容忍、正直和品格。美生会员被教导要透过真诚、荣誉、正直、热情的生活,让自己成为更好的人。真正的美生应该是,也应该有权对自己感到满意;但惟有当他不止为自己、也为需要他同情帮助的人服务时,才真正快乐。美生会期待每个人都能依自身能力、以自己的方式贡献社会;如果不能单独出力,亦可集合众人之力。 美生会的最终目的,在于使所有的人变得更好,进而改善世界。
共济会/美生会的四种美德-节制、坚忍、审慎及正义 This beautiful hand-colored print depicts the Four Cardinal Virtues, the practice of which is inculcated in the First or Entered Apprentice Degree of Freemasonry and are thus explained. Temperance - The Freemason who properly appreciates the secrets which he has solemnly promised never to revel, will not, by yielding to the unrestrained call of appetite, permit reason and judgment to lose their seats, and subject himself, by the indulgence in habits of excess, to discover that which should be concealed, and thus merit and receive the scorn and detestation of his Brethren. And lest any Brother should forget the danger to which he is exposed in the unguarded hours of dissipation, the virtue of temperance is wisely impressed upon his memory, by its reference to one of the most solemn portions of the ceremony of initiation. Some Freemasons, very properly condemning the vice of intemperance and abhorring its effects, have been unwisely led to confound temperance with total abstinence in a Masonic application, and resolutions have sometimes been proposed in Grand Lodges which declare the use of stimulating liquors in any quantity a Masonic offense. But the law of Freemasonry authorizes no such regulation. It leaves to every man the indulgence of his own tastes within due limits, and demands not abstinence, but only moderation and temperance, in anything not actually wrong. Fortitude - instructs the worthy Freemason to bear the ills of life with becoming resignation, "taking up arms against a sea of trouble," but, by its intimate connection with a portion of our ceremonies, it teaches the candidate to let no dangers shake, no pains dissolve the inviolable fidelity he owes to the trusts reposed in him. Or, in the words of the old Prestonian lecture, it is "a fence or security against any attack that might be made upon him by force or otherwise, to extort from him any of our Royal Secrets." Prudence - Preston first introduced it into the Entered Apprentice Degree as referring to what was then, and long before had been called the Four Principal Signs, but which are now known as the Perfect Points of Entrance. Preston's eulogium on prudence differs from that used in the lectures of the United States, which was composed by Webb. It is in these words: "Prudence is the true guide to human understanding, and consists in judging and determining with propriety what is to be said or done upon all our occasions, what dangers we should endeavor to avoid, and how to act in all our difficulties." Justice - The Freemason who remembers how emphatically he has been charged to preserve an upright position in all his dealings with mankind, should never fail to act justly to himself, to his Brethren, and to the world. This is the corner-stone on which alone he can expect "to erect a superstructure alike honorable to himself and to the Fraternity." In iconology, the general science pertaining to images, Justice is usually represented as a matron, her eyes bandaged, holding in one hand a sword and in the other a pair of scales at equipoise. But in Freemasonry the true symbol of Justice, as illustrated in the First Degree, is the feet firmly planted on the ground, and the body upright.
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