Can you elaborate on the following esoteric meaning of: To me son of the Widow
In literal usage within the Craft, the title "son of the widow" refers directly to Hiram Abiff, whom Biblical tradition describes as a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali 2. Because Masons symbolically regard themselves as descendants or followers of Hiram, the term became a general synonym for a Freemason 2. Outside of symbolic usage, political theorists in the eighteenth century attempted to tie the phrase to the exiled House of Stuart, alleging it referred to Charles II as the son of Queen Henrietta Maria, widow of Charles I 2.
From an esoteric perspective, Walter Leslie Wilmshurst interprets the phrase through a Gnostic framework 1. In his reading, Hiram Abiff personifies the fabricative Logos or Christ-principle latent within every human soul 1. The "Widow" signifies the Divine Motherhood or Sophia, whose nature is described as widowed or derelict owing to the spiritual wandering and defection of her human children 1. Masons who actively strive to retrace their steps and rebuild the fallen inner temple of the soul are, under this view, those who rejoin or seek to rejoin that Divine Motherhood, thereby earning the name of "widow's sons" 1. Wilmshurst links this directly to the traditional Masonic call for assistance, interpreting "Come to my help, ye sons of the Widow, for I am the Widow's son!" as an appeal made by those still struggling in the flesh to those who have already achieved spiritual reunion 1.
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