reply to post by TeslaandLyne
I would say someone who actually works for the company would stand a much greater chance of finding them out than someone who doesn't work there,
right?
That was originally the entire point of Operative Stonemasons. It took years and years of training to learn the secret arts of building with stone.
Those secrets were jealously guarded because stonemasons were very well-paid and one of the only classes allowed to travel to foreign lands to work
and earn money.
It also says a lot for how knowledge is transferred. Just because you have a book or website on being a stonemason does not mean you can build a
building.
Reading about it, even watching it, would never be enough to completely understand it. The tolerances are so tight and the finishing of the stones so
perfect that it takes years of learning under a skilled master to get it right.
It's not that the master builder can't tell you his secrets, it's that you would have no idea what he meant unless you actually built a temple.