We had the delphic oracle and did come away with answers. We are only at the beginning stage of understanding the human mind. Complex with a capability to renew itself that sets back our desperate reliance on logic. Conscience.  Belief and fact.  To define masonry one would need to understand.  Masonry may be aspirational but today- we are unprepared to be tasked by the search for understanding.   In a western world, we have separated that part of our being from the material world.  It isn't complicated because we think that way. the understanding of 'the way'