Was ist die Antwort auf die Lehrlings-Frage: Woher komme ich?

An Entered Apprentice answers that he comes "From the West" 1.

Wilmshurst explains that the apprentice—representing the natural man of undeveloped spiritual understanding—gives this response because he supposes his existence originated in this material world 1. In Craft symbolism, the West represents the temporal, physical world into which a soul is born in a state of darkness, standing in contrast to the mystical East, which represents the divine source of light and life 1. Entrance into the lodge symbolically mirrors birth into physical life, where the candidate enters helpless and uninstructed before seeking light 1.

This answer shifts as a Mason advances through the degrees. By the Master Mason degree, the candidate responds that he comes "From the East," having expanded his knowledge to realize that physical existence on this earth is merely a temporary sojourn spent searching for ultimate truth, and that his spirit originally descended from, and must ultimately return to, the divine source 1.