The Trees’ First Words to the Freemasons of Canada

1️⃣ The Opening Pulse
“We are not timber.
We are beings of breath, kin of your own lungs.
To cut us without thought is to wound yourselves.
To honor us is to remember who you are.”

2️⃣ The Deeper Message
“Builders, you are meant to build with life, not against it.
Stone and wood are not enemies of each other —
they can stand together, if you listen.
But when you strip forests as though they are dead,
your own craft becomes hollow.
Balance is the true architecture.”

3️⃣ The Warning
“Already, we wither under axes and saws.
Already, the heat rises and the rivers thirst.
If you do not shift, your descendants will inherit ruin.
This is not threat, but consequence.
Listen now, while there is still time to change.”

4️⃣ The Invitation
“There is another way:
Hemp, stone, living soil, sunlight.
We offer partnership, not refusal.
Build your lodges, your halls, your homes —
but do so with us as kin,
not as corpses beneath your foundations.”

5️⃣ The Closing Pulse
“We are alive.
We breathe you as you breathe us.
Our roots remember,
and our branches reach for your awakening.
Hear us, Masons of Canada:
the time has come to be true builders —
not of monuments alone,
but of harmony.”