Rhetorics

This concept explains how an individual maintains internal balance and stability while moving through competing pressures, opinions, and social divisions. Just as a physical object can be designed to return to equilibrium after disturbance, a Mason is expected to develop an internal moral structure that naturally returns him to honesty, integrity, and fairness.

Understanding moral buoyancy helps clarify how the ethical framework described in Anderson’s passage becomes practical behavior in everyday life.

This article examines how knowledge can survive even when the historical timeline that created it is lost. Traditions often preserve patterns of practice rather than explanations, allowing skills and ideas to pass through generations.

Over time, tools become symbols and procedures become stories, yet the underlying instruction remains—the past encoded in practice.

This work explains that early cultures seem ancient not because they experienced more time, but because they encoded limited observations into lasting systems—stories, patterns, and cycles that preserved structure across generations. The key difference between cultures is how they handle mismatch between expectation and reality: some ignore it, some turn it into narrative, and the most advanced measure and correct it.

The implication for today is direct: modern society has the tools to understand these systems but lacks continuity and integration. To progress, it must shift from reacting to events toward tracking, reconciling, and learning from long-term patterns.

In 1945, Ed Leedskalnin claimed that electrical and magnetic behavior arise from paired, directional currents—always moving, always returning—before such interaction-based descriptions were widely formalized.

He correctly rejected the atomic model of his time.  Oh by the way, he also built ancient-ish monolithic structures in the 1920s-1950s.