Post by sid on Jan 28, 2011 11:57:52 GMT
Greetings,
What does it mean? Was the mystery of the Templar's their love of honey?
Bees and bee hives have been mystic symbols throughout history. The Romans were very fond of bees and what they symbolized. My dad was a beekeeper and we had an extensive apiary when I was growing up. I'll run down the correlations.
1. Bees are a hard working community that uses specific job duties to function. (field gathers, nurse, guard, queen, queen's attendants, ventilation staff, drones.)
2. The honey they create is for the most part golden. The color of the sun.
3. The work produces a sweetness within. (Inferring caring and compassion)
4. All worker bees and the queen are female. Only a small number of male bees (drones) exist in every hive. Their only job is to keep the Queen fertile. In order for nature to equip them with the necessary fertilizing parts, male bees are not equip with a stinger.
5. Bees prefer to enter at the bottom of the hive. Honey is stored and harvested from the top or furthest point from the entrance.
6. The stone bee hive would be unique for those whose only purpose was honey production. Since Freemasonry is all about symbols, creating a beehive out of rock or tomb material makes sense to me.
7. The beehive that has no entry and the inside is an empty darkness, IMO, would represent the Virgin.
So, I believe these two stone bee hives would fit quite well in Rosslyn Chapel's design and Freemason symbology.
I believe the beehive is a symbol of the 'spiritual' work done within the Lodge
Bees and bee hives have been mystic symbols throughout history. The Romans were very fond of bees and what they symbolized. My dad was a beekeeper and we had an extensive apiary when I was growing up. I'll run down the correlations.
1. Bees are a hard working community that uses specific job duties to function. (field gathers, nurse, guard, queen, queen's attendants, ventilation staff, drones.)
2. The honey they create is for the most part golden. The color of the sun.
3. The work produces a sweetness within. (Inferring caring and compassion)
4. All worker bees and the queen are female. Only a small number of male bees (drones) exist in every hive. Their only job is to keep the Queen fertile. In order for nature to equip them with the necessary fertilizing parts, male bees are not equip with a stinger.
5. Bees prefer to enter at the bottom of the hive. Honey is stored and harvested from the top or furthest point from the entrance.
6. The stone bee hive would be unique for those whose only purpose was honey production. Since Freemasonry is all about symbols, creating a beehive out of rock or tomb material makes sense to me.
7. The beehive that has no entry and the inside is an empty darkness, IMO, would represent the Virgin.
So, I believe these two stone bee hives would fit quite well in Rosslyn Chapel's design and Freemason symbology.
I believe the beehive is a symbol of the 'spiritual' work done within the Lodge
