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Post by leonardo on Dec 11, 2004 15:23:32 GMT
Maybe in the kitchen a nice black and white tiled chequered floor with a tasselated border ?? Lee wrote the above on another thread but as I did not want to take away from his specific topic I thought it best advised to start a new one. I’ve heard that there are always one more white square than the black ones in a Lodge? Apparently the white squares represent the goodness that exists within the universe, and the black squares the evil - the message being (I imagine) Good always overcomes Evil. I don't know how accurate this information is except to say that I did hear it from an apparently reliable source. Has anybody else more information on this?
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Post by JudasImok on Dec 12, 2004 0:43:01 GMT
Sorry, I wish I could help. My lodge floor actually isn't tiled. It's just a plain blue carpet with a big G in a S&G in the center.
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Post by Hubert (N. Z.) on Dec 12, 2004 1:22:41 GMT
The Chequer board has a lot of conitations, let alone moving from one square to the next.
The aspect of good and evil is interesting. a book i read a long time ago suggested "the path of the Dot" First there was eternal darkness, then a white dot (light) came into consciousness, and in its expansion more appeared creating knowledge. To me this is an anology of our pavement.- Light being shed on the darkness of ignorance.
The above statement is mine alone and not any part of specific masonic instruction, but an example of how I beleive the Craft teaches us to use our capacities to look beyond the merely fundamental aspect of allegory and symbol.
As I have indicated elsewhere, "todays' wild imaginings are tomorrows' realities"
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Post by symbol on Dec 12, 2004 7:07:46 GMT
i recently read that it represents the movement from darkness to light, but i dont know if this is interputation or factual.
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Post by staffs on Dec 12, 2004 7:16:06 GMT
i have never seen an odd number of tilese or squares as this would look very odd. Is there not an explanation in the FDTB ?
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Post by leonardo on Dec 12, 2004 21:18:52 GMT
i have never seen an odd number of tilese or squares as this would look very odd. They/it may not be that obvious Lee. You could always try counting them ?;D ;D Just a though.
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Post by Seeker on Dec 13, 2004 7:06:45 GMT
Some thoughts on the Tessellated pavement. It indicates the positive and negative aspects of all forms; the masculine and the feminine polarities that we find in all nautre. It represents also the sea of humanity. This is why it is the lowest plane in the Lodge. Yet it is on the floor of the lodge that we must labour; symbolically this reminds us that our labours lie in all humanity.
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Post by staffs on Dec 13, 2004 7:48:37 GMT
but the depth of a lodge is from the surface of the earth to its center and even as high as the heavens so how can it be yhe lowest plane of humanity
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Post by whistler on Dec 13, 2004 7:54:27 GMT
but the depth of a lodge is from the surface of the earth to its center and even as high as the heavens so how can it be yhe lowest plane of humanity Staffs, It Represents the sea of Humanity - not the lowest plane and it is in that sea we must labour
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Post by aaron on Dec 13, 2004 10:07:14 GMT
does it worry some of you that you dont know what it means?
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Post by bod on Dec 13, 2004 10:23:29 GMT
No - not really - while there are accepted definitions for some of our masonic world a lot of it is down to individual interpretation and meaning.
There is no single version of freemasonry that is universally accepted.
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Post by whistler on Dec 13, 2004 17:03:54 GMT
does it worry some of you that you dont know what it means? Not at all, forums like this are about learning Aaron, It would help if you posted these one liners ion another thread eg suggestions... It makes the threads subjects easier to follow, Staff's any chance of moving a few to clean up the threads?
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Post by staffs on Dec 14, 2004 6:23:50 GMT
Whistler wrote Staffs, It Represents the sea of Humanity - not the lowest plane and it is in that sea we must labour TEXT
And i excpect we have all seen a few people sink and drown on the floor at a meeting. i will be trying very hard to tread water in my new position
Thanks whistler fo rthat explanation
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Post by taylorsman on Dec 14, 2004 7:50:41 GMT
"....does it worry some of you that you dont know what it means? "
Not at all! Aaron. Yesterday was the 16th anniversary of my being Initiated and I am still learning and would never claim to know it all. I even learned the reason for a particular custom after Chapter on Saturday.
We are charged to make a "daily advancement in Masonic Knowledge" and Freemasonry is an ongoing learning process, just like Life itself.
In any great event in Life, such as going to school, starting work, getting married, we do so ignorant of all that is involved and learn as we go. So too with Freemasonry. Most have no problem with this.
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Post by leonardo on Dec 14, 2004 8:58:16 GMT
[quote author=Taylorsman link=board=General&thread=1102778612&start=13#0 date=1103010641
We are charged to make a "daily advancement in Masonic Knowledge" and Freemasonry is an ongoing learning process, just like Life itself.
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Very well said Steve. Kinda sums it up, really.
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Post by atarnaris on Dec 14, 2004 22:12:20 GMT
does it worry some of you that you dont know what it means? Our friend... Freemasonic rituals encapsulates so many traditions, meanings, and symbols that if you add to it the Lodge's structure, furniture and all that come with it, one would probably need 2-3 days of continuous lecturing to cover the mainstream ideas of that ritual and Lodge. Practically impossible... However, as others have mentioned here you get given the basics and encouraged to look for more. Think about it... I am a doctor. When I got my MD people were asking me all sort of questions I couldn't answer. Was I worried? Yes... for a second. And then I realised that I cannot possibly be taught the whole of medical knowledge in 6 years.As a doctor every day I strive for Knowledge and Light... Look at Freemasonry like a progressive science and each of the three degrees as the Primary School, the High School, and the University. Freemasnory encapsulates not only recent advances but Knowledge, Morals, Ethics, and Doctrines from Time immemorial interwined in a peculiar and (should I say) challenging fashion...
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