Eureka-DuPont Lodge No. 23-29 A.F.& A.M. The Friendly Lodge
2016 Foulk Road
Wilmington, DE
19810
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The principal or chief tenets of Freemasonry are Brotherly Love, Relief and Truth.
BROTHERLY LOVE means that we place on another man the highest possible valuation as a friend; a companion, an associate, a neighbor, a fellow. Merely to be with him, merely to spend hours in his company, to have the privilege of working at his side, is all we ask. We do NOT ask that from our relationship we shall make money, or further our business interests, or achieve some other form of selfish gain. Our relationship with such a one is its own excuse for being, its own justification, its own reward. All of us know that this Brotherly Love is one of the supreme things without which life is a lonely, unhappy, dreary kind of thing. This is not a hope or a dream, but a fact-as real as day and night, or as the law of gravity.
Masonic RELIEF takes it for granted that any man, no matter how industrious or frugal he may be, may through sudden misfortune, or other conditions over which he has no control, find himself in temporary need of a helping hand. To extend to him such a helping hand is not what is generally described as charity, but is one of the natural and inevitable acts of Brotherhood. Any possible conception of Brotherhood must, in the very nature of the case, include as part of itself this willingness to give help, aid and assistance. Thus RELIEF, as thus Masonically understood, is in strict truth a Tenet. If we are going to have Brotherhood at all, we shall expect this free and cordial spirit of helpfulness to be a part of it.
By TRUTH, the last of the Principal Tenets, is meant something more than the search for truths in the intellectual sense, though that is included necessarily, and is one of the things meant by Freemasonry's motto "Let there be Light". By TRUTH is meant that if we are to have a permanent Brotherhood, its members must be truthful in character and habit, dependable, men of honor as well as of honesty, men on whom ye can rely to be faithful fellows and loyal friends. No argument is needed to prove that TRUTH, as thus understood, is a necessity, that it is required in the nature of things if a Brotherhood is to exist. It is something we must all take for granted as being beyond question.
