The Way of the Craftsman: Search for the Spiritual Essences of Craft Freemasonry
by W.Kirk MacNulty
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Author: W.Kirk MacNultyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-04-01
ISBN: 0954251601
Number of pages: 160
Publisher: Central Regalia Ltd
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Summary: 5 Stars
The Way of the Craftsman is initially located in Renaissance milieu. Then, MacNulty shifts paradigms to that of a framework for Masonic understanding and development based upon the psychoanalytic theories of Freud and Jung.
Respectively, Freud's model of the personality based upon the id - instinct, ego - rationality and super-ego - conscience; and, Jung's archetypes, a collective and inherited unconscious unifying dreams, images and ritual!
The infinite explanatory power of psychoanalytic theory, and its immunity from refutation, provides enviable scope for the author's creativity, but may be unnecessary for those who do not require a deux ex machina model.
Each Mason is free to choose those personal developmental frameworks that for him make sense, sustain and are sustainable.
The frequent use of the term "Masonic labour" further makes clear that the Masonic temple allegory is founded upon the necessity and reality of material production, and also upon the rationality and responsibility for its appropriate distribution.
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