The "Book of the Tectonic Companion" is a hymn to work:
However, the work referred to is the one to which the wise of all ages have dedicated themselves, and it is far from being limited to the performance of symbolic ceremonies, no matter how deep and allegorical they may be. The Great Work to which Freemasonry urges us actually presupposes an active participation on our part in the most admirable enterprise that the human mind can conceive, whether it is the creation of the World or its completion, which has the same value. In order to immortalize ourselves, we must unreservedly devote ourselves to the service of the Great Work, because the better we practice the initiatory work, the higher we ascend on the scale of beings...'' Oswald Wirth.