I think if you try standing in a vertical circle that it is quite hard to put both feet along the line of the circle

But I suggest Leonardo is telling us something along the line of the human is th ...

Personally I regard the attachment of Plato's cardinal virtues to the tassels to be a veiling. It is a veiling of the 4 rivers of Eden and that itself is a veiling.

In lodges I know the tassels a ...

Brother Anton

The charges are indeed important but there too there is veiling.

For example the charge my lodge uses on the EA tracing board explains that one of the reasons my lodge in Australia ...

Sean

Pretty good attempt for an apprentice on 2 counts. First that you even considered the knocks as mysterious and secondly that you labeled the question Elements.

The knocks seem to be to:
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Brother Ken

Traditionally in some lodges the EA wears an apron that has a triangular flap turned up so that it appears as a triangle (of spirit) above a square (of matter). In the MM degree the f ...

This actually reminds me of the masonic question re the sun at its high meridian in relation to all of Freemasonry, because somewhere in the world it will be h.m.and as we are to be found w/wide and ...

>man's earliest instruction was by symbols.


Personally I agree with this but it has some interesting implications.

It suggests the presence of an instructor(s) who devised and/or promulgat ...

Brethren, is there a clue as to when the Four Cardinal Virtues first appeared in Masonic ritual?

Apparently Plato espoused four virtues: "The origin of the fourfold system is traceable to Gree ...

>I found a website that alleges that LDH (as well as some Grand Orient lodges) removed the prohibition of political, religious, and/or social discussions. While I know it is not typical of Co-Mason ...

>One of the main reasons for the division is ironically to create a greater sense of unity within the synagogue as a community. Division of the sexes prevents families from forming smaller groups w ...

>, we have many worthy and distinquished Brethren of the Islamic faith. Most of them are of Arabian descent and for reasons they best understand, would not subscribe to a ritual that purports to ta ...

Brother Rudi

I agree with the sentiments you have of the higher work of lodges. Perhaps the word "exclusive" has been captured or contaminated by other uses and users. Thus "exclu ...

>Pick any of there books in the Hiram series and I will give you at least 3 blatant errors by the end of the weekend.

Don

I fear you could do the same with my lodge's initiation ritual. It h ...

> Woman would have a great deal to give to Freemasonry and would, indeed, help make a good man better.

Well I went through the offices with my wife one step behind. So we were deacons together ...

>Why does 'modern' specualtive Freemasonry object to women as part of the lodge membership?

I have suggested this elsewhere but I suspect that the exclusion of women comes to us from orthodox ju ...