According to the ritual, corn, wine and oil are symbolic of the payment a Freemason earns today by "good work, true work, square work." "A Master's Wages" may be the same, may be different, for every brother. They are the friendships formed through Freemasonry; the consciousness of unselfish work; taking part in movements and actions for the betterment of the condition of neighbors; inherent in learning and in making it possible for other men to learn that men of widely different beliefs, convictions, circumstances, education, skills and character may live and work, play and love together in peace and happiness. A Master's Wages are intangible, but the more real because any brother may earn as much as he will.
"I worked for menial's wages Only to learn, dismayed
Any wage I asked of lodge, Lodge would have paid."
This is a paraphrase indicating that there is no limit to the Master's Wages any brother may receive, except that which he may put upon himself.
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