Synergy: the third alternative

The Craft's published history offers several synergistic precedents: the conjunction of operative and speculative Masonry into a single body neither could have produced alone; the formation of appendant Rites that preserved tradition while letting newer organizational forms develop; the partnership of Lodges with appendant charities (Shriners Hospitals, CMMRF, KTEF, RARA, Shrine Transportation Fund) where the Blue Lodge does the formative work and the charities do the relief work, neither displacing the other. These are working examples of 1 + 1 = 3.