Post by whistler on Nov 1, 2004 21:21:45 GMT
I have become very very interested in this degree,
I know it is never worked, but the words in the ritual are a real challenge to quote
I am certainly not qualified intellectually, but I am certainl am intellectually challenged by the words in the ritual like these taken from the lecture
Has anybody ever seen this degree being worked
Check out
www.bradford.ac.uk/webofhiram/?section=ancient_accepted&page=12Grandmasterarchitect.html
I know it is never worked, but the words in the ritual are a real challenge to quote
This grade requires of the neophyte that he be thoroughly qualified intellectually and morally, to be admitted
I am certainly not qualified intellectually, but I am certainl am intellectually challenged by the words in the ritual like these taken from the lecture
As he advanced, the ancient Freemason ceased to work with the instruments of the labourer the square, the level, the plumb, and the trowel, and assumed those of the Architect and Geometrician. As he advanced, also, he passed from that branch of geometry and mathematics which occupies itself with the earth, its surface and the things, that belong to it, with right lines and angles, and all the figures formed thereby, to the mathematics of the heavens and the spheres. We no longer occupy ourselves with geometry and mathematics as sciences, nor expect of our initiates a knowledge of their problems, or even of their terms. To us the instruments of the geometrician, and all the figures, plane and spherical, drawn by these instruments, have a symbolical meaning. By means of the morality of Masonry, we advance toward its philosophy, and every degree is a step in that direction. If you would succeed to the rank held by Adoniram,. you must assume the obligation which it imposes.
Has anybody ever seen this degree being worked
Check out
www.bradford.ac.uk/webofhiram/?section=ancient_accepted&page=12Grandmasterarchitect.html