In Pursuit of Being Happy, Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise
A Pocket Compendium of Masonic Papers
by Chris E. Batty

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Why are we here? And what can Freemasonry, the West’s oldest fraternal organization, tell us about that eternal question? In Pursuit of Being Happy, Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise is a handy “pocket compendium” of short papers exploring the question from various angles—but always from a Freemason’s perspective. These papers will be of value both to Freemasons, as a summary of Freemasonry’s most important ethical and practical principles, as well as to anyone seeking guidance on how to achieve success and happiness. The papers, written over the course of many years of study, travel, and work, cover a range of Masonic themes, practices, and historical events, but they all centre around one key idea: how to live a successful, happy life based on the ancient Judeo-Christan and Enlightenment principles that are the essence of Freemasonry.

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Chris E. Batty grew up in England and immigrated to Canada as a teenager with $45 in his pocket and very little education. He went on to earn a Bachelor of Science in Engineering in Water Resources and a Masters of Engineering in Transportation and enjoyed a long and successful career, thanks in large part to the life lessons learned as Freemason, as an engineer in Canada, southern Africa, and the Caribbean. Now retired, Chris became a Freemason in 1975 and served as Worshipful Master of Saskatchewan Lodge No. 92 GRA (1982), Grand Pursuivant (2001–2002), District Deputy Grand Master for the Northern Lights District (2005–2006) and Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Alberta (2015 – 2016). In 2015, Chris was appointed as an Honorary Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Saskatchewan and in 2017 an Honorary Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Manitoba. Chris has a special interest in the issue of education and was elected to the Masonic Higher Education Bursary Committee in 2006, serving as its chairman from 2007 to 2014. Since 2017, he has been a tutor with the Scottish Rite’s Rite to Learn program for dyslexic youth. With his wife Wendy, Chris provides an annual bursary for promising engineering and technology students. Chris’s first steps on this arduous and difficult road of life were small steps in the snow. During his subsequent travels he learnt that the three things that provide the greatest reward are: education, being frugal and limiting one’s desires, and helping others the best way one can.

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Contributors

Author

Chris E. Batty

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Jeanette MacLean