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Post by chrisj on Dec 18, 2015 1:37:23 GMT
Bretheran, as I mentiond in my introduction i have recently been appointed the inner guard of my Lodge and the very next day as all good Inner Guards do (and because my DoC is terrafying) i began to learn the ritual for a first degree (double first as if one new name isnt hard enuff) i got to thinking about my post and because i am some what swatty in nature i got distracted (noboddy tell the DoC) and started to look up inner guard on the internet and you know what their isnt an awful lot out their. Loads abouth the Master, wardens, decons and even stewerds which has some what whet my whistle. So to the sign posting portion of my soliloquy hear, can any one point me in the right direction of some information about the historys and origons of the Inner Guard. I am hopeing to find enuff information to turn this into a lecture.
The second part of my desperate pleas for advice and because im doing this on the down low i dont want to ask a brother in my lodge the protocol hear, but once ive done my resurch and written my lecture how do i go about presenting it?
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Post by peter2 on Dec 18, 2015 21:04:37 GMT
I suggest that the key to the Inner Guard is the inner work.
Thus the IG carries a steel dagger - suitable for use in magical ritual to deal with (cut up) astral entities. Thus the IG is overtly equipped to guard the inner (spiritual) workings of the lodge.
Further, it is common at the investment of the IG to point out that the IG is to set a guard over thoughts - indicating a role in guarding the temple against dark thought entities.
Hence it is the work of the IG to clear the candidate (and any brother) of attached entities as he enters the door.
If you are interested primarily in the outer form, you might say that in London some of the lodges met in public houses and required armed guards at the door.
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