By Giles Morgan
ISBN-10: 1842436783
ISBN-13: 9781842436783
ISBN-10: 1848395957
ISBN-13: 9781848395954
The realm of Freemasonry exerts a robust impression at the glossy mind's eye. In an age whilst perceived notions of historical past are being more and more puzzled and re-examined it really is possibly inevitable that secretive societies equivalent to the Freemasons locate themselves on the middle of substantial hypothesis and conjecture. to a couple they symbolize a strong and shadowy elite who've manipulated global heritage throughout �Read more...
summary: the area of Freemasonry exerts a strong impact at the glossy mind's eye. In an age while perceived notions of background are being more and more puzzled and re-examined it really is possibly inevitable that secretive societies comparable to the Freemasons locate themselves on the middle of substantial hypothesis and conjecture. to a couple they characterize a strong and shadowy elite who've manipulated global background in the course of the a long time, when to others they're an altogether extra mundane and benign fraternal association. Freemasonry at the present time is a global phenomenon that accepts club from a various ethnic and spiritual diversity of backgrounds. access to Freemasonry calls for a trust in a preferrred Being even though it insists it doesn't represent a faith in itself. The rituals and practices of Freemasonry were considered as variously vague, unnecessary, baffling, sinister, and scary. An intensely stratified and hierarchical constitution underpins so much Masonic orders whose actions are targeted inside assembly issues often termed as resorts. Giles Morgan examines its old importance (George Washington and Benjamin Franklin have been either Masons) and its place and function in modern society
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When united they provide ‘stability’. In Masonic images pillars are often • 47 • F R E E M A S O N RY shown surmounted by globes that represent the celestial and terrestrial spheres of existence. As well as making the bronze pillars Jachin and Boaz, Hiram from Tyre, the son of the widow, created the ‘sea of bronze’. This huge bowl-like receptacle was set on the backs of 12 bronze oxen with groups of three set at each corner of the compass. 4 metres in depth and was able to hold around 45,000 litres of water.
During the ceremony that echoes this story, the initiate is described as being raised to the sublime degree of a Master Mason. In the course of the ritual the candidate is actually physically raised from the floor by his fellow Masons. The Master Mason The working tools of the degree of the Master Mason are the skirret, pencil and the compass. A skirret is a pointed building tool that can be set in the ground and used to plan a true line from which to work. This, of course, is metaphorically extended to the behaviour and deportment of Master Masons who should use the religious teachings of their own faith system in tandem with the standards required of them by Freemasonry.
2 Chronicles 2: 13) In Freemasonry Hiram Abiff is often described as being ‘the widow’s son’ and this epithet is based on the following passage from the bible. Now King Solomon invited and received Hiram from Tyre. He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, whose father, a man of Tyre, had been an artisan in bronze; he was full of skill, intelligence, and knowledge in working bronze. He came to King Solomon and did all his work. (1 Kings 7: 13-14) Work is said to have commenced on building the Temple in the fourth year of King Solomon’s reign on the second day of the second month.