Entered Apprentice Degree First Degree VerseThe square lies on top of the compasses (the opposite configuration of a Master Mason's square and compasses.)Psalms 133Verse 1 "Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!Verse 2...
Like your predecessors, you will learn the Freemason symbols which have come down to us through the generations…not just from books, theOld Charges(old manuscripts, Old Charters), engravings and ritual and degree work; ...but through the mentoring (nurturing) of each of its members,… fell...
believed that the time was ripe for a complete ceremonial revolution and that one founded on mystical tradition was drawn up thereon in writing, constituting the Entered Apprentice grade, approximately as it exists now. The grade of Fellow Craft was elaborated in 1648, and that of Master Mason ...
Entered Apprentice: a plain white lamb skin 14 to 16 inches wide, 12 to 14 inches deep, square at bottom, and without ornament; white strings. No rosette. Fellow Craft: a plain white lamb skin, similar to the, entered apprentice, with the addition only of two blue rosettes at the botto...
Tracing Board from the Entered Apprentice degree depicting Masonic imagery including the sun. Photo by David Bohl. Courtesy of SRMML In our fraternity, its significance is multifaceted, but it starts with illuminating the path of the potential Freemason on his quest for truth and enlightenment amids...
Let us remember all Brethren called into the Eternal East from the Entered Apprentice up to the Most Worshipful Brother 13 13 Wed Apr 03, 2013 3:19 pmweroberts The Masonic Forum of the Readers of PS Review of FM ForumTopicsPostsLast Post General discussion & Craft Masonry For the majority...
Master Mason 1817, Entered Apprentice Dec. 11, 1816, Lancaster Lodge No. 43, Lancaster, PA, Fellowcraft & Master Mason degrees in 1817. President Buchanan was the Junior Warden of his lodge from 1821 to 1822, and the Worshipful Master of the lodge in 1825. He was later exalted in Royal...
In completing the second degree, an initiate advances to the skilled craftsman or Fellow Craft. In doing so, he can test the work of the Entered Apprentice and use his skill to improve their Rough Ashlar into the Perfect Ashlar for use in the master’s plan. ...
A Manual of the Lodge: Or, Monitorial Instructions in the Degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft, and Master Mason, Arranged in Accordance with the American System of Lectures, to Which Are Added the Ceremonies of the Order of Past Master, Relating to Installations, Dedications, Consecratio...
The Entered Apprentice's Song 1.--Solo: Come, let us prepare; We Brothers that are Met together on merry Occasion; Let's drink, laugh and sing; Our Wine has a Spring, Here's a health to an Accepted Mason. Chorus: Let's drink, laugh and sing; Our Wine has a Spring, ...