In the blink of an eye, Stendhal flips the tone of his narration and the reader finds himself facing the paradox of a protagonist that can be either understood as an arrogant moron or as a valiant idealist. Few books have so totally engrossed me as this French novel written nearly two hundred years ago. In fact, Ra knows more of it than I do. Elrod - His Father's Son. Often times Masons themselves do not know what the symbols within these rituals truly mean while they are being performed -- so therefore do not fully understand what they are really doing and the true purpose of the initiation.
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