The Operative Masonry provides us with our history (real or symbolic), the Speculative gives us the impetus to discover and develop our own interpretations of the symbols, and the Applied pushes us forward, out into the real world, to make our contributions to it.  We make those contributions not only out of our G-d given talents, but out of the added value of our Masonry – Veiled in Allegory and Illustrated by Symbols.