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communication. I was away on business and then had a death in the family and just couldn't be there.
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brethren at Ancient Landmark Lodge #231 in Savannah ( they evidently called him Marion), was initiated, passed and
' raised in the same class with my father in 1956. He moved through the officer's line, one chair ahead of my dad and was
master of the lodge in 1962. Uncle Bill was born in Estil, SC and moved to Savannah as a young boy. During the
Depression he would sit all day in the Ellis Square adjacent to the old City Market and weave cast nets which he sold to
help support his single mother and two sisters. He was a WWII Navy fighter pilot who saw a tremendous amount of
action in the South Pacific. Uncle Bill returned home to Savannah and owned and operated a heating/cooling and sheet
metal company for the next 45 years. He was the man who taught me how to fish, and he loved being out in the salt
water rivers sounds of the Georgia coast. I had the privilege to assist the brethren from Ancient Landmark Lodge in
performing a Masonic funeral as we laid him to rest in the old Bonaventure Cemetery. He is buried approximately 200
feet from the bluff, overlooking the Wilmington River where he spent so many hours of his life, fishing and shrimping
and teaching others to do the same.
I have scheduled a lodge workday for Saturday, June 19th. The project for the day, as recommended by the Property and
Investment Committee, and graciously funded by WBro Sid Cohen's donation of meal receipts, will be repairing and
painting the gable on the front of the building. We will need to scrape and paint the gable, as well as the square and
compasses. Anyone who might have access to some scaffolding, please contact Brother Akridge or myself to arrange to
have it on site, otherwise anyone with some extension ladders please bring them.
We have a very nice problem. We currently have nine Entered Apprentice brethren. Two have successfully completed
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Craft masons to attend. Our Senior Warden does a fantastic job of the second section and it shouldn't be missed.
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ancient people: The Egyptians, those ancient masters of symbolism to whom the investigator of the symbols used in Masonry first looks for
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explanations of those symbols, made use of colors in their hieroglyphics to convey certain definite ideas, each color being expressive of certain
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world, the)5%!
active
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divine
intelligence,
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color given to the flesh of Thoueri, the concubine of Typhon. And black was
the color of Anubis, the god of the dead and of embalming.
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The colors symbolically significant in Masonry are purple, red, white, black,
green, yellow, violet and blue. Each color has for its purpose the
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to some historical fact of interest Masonically, certain of the colors
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! teaching to the Mason of a valuable moral lesson or the calling of his attention
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! serving both purposes at one and the same time.
Purple, being a mixture of blue and red, is, to the Mason, the symbol of4#&-6!3-+''!*)/.1')'!-.$)!Q+J./3.!#&!R'++3!S)4,#/!
fraternal union because it is composed of the color adopted for the
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Master Mason's Lodge and that adopted for the Chapter of Royal Arch Companions, these two Masonic bodies being indissolubly connected
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the Royal Arch
an essential
and component
the present-day mutilated Master Mason's degree. For this reason purple is adopted as
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the proper color for the Mark, the Past, and the Most Excellent Master degrees, to symbolize the fact that those degrees connect the Master
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Mason's degree with the Royal Arch.
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Red I1*'!
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and fire was2&./,)6!
to the Egyptians
the symbol
regeneration and the purification of souls. Hence, in the Masonic
system, red is the symbol of regeneration. Thus red is the color assigned to,+,,##)6!#5)&!0.'!)/,.&)!7#68<!+!4).*0,!-.%,)&!
the Royal Arch Degree since that degree teaches the regeneration of
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! life.
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being obvious. Therefore, in Masonry it is, properly, the color adopted
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for certain of the garments of investiture of the candidate.
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Black from the remotest antiquity has been the symbol of grief and such
is its significance to the Mason.
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Green,
being
the
unchanging
color
of
the
various
evergreen
trees,
shrubs,
and so forth, is, in the symbolistic system of Masonry, the color
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conception Masonry has received from the ancients, more particularly
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the Egyptians. For example, with the Egyptians, as noted above, Ptah was4)--!4.,0!,0)&+2)1,.3!(#6)-'!#%!3#/,)(2#&+&8!?()&.3+<!
pictured as having green flesh. Also, the goddess Pascht, the divine
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preserver, and Thoth, the instructor of men in the sacred doctrines of truth, were both painted with green flesh. So the Mason, adhering once
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more, as he so often does, to the conceptions of the Egyptians, chooses for his symbol of the immortality of the soul which he knows to be divine
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and true an object, the acacia, whose color is unchanging green.
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Yellow was to the ancients the symbol of light. Though unemphasized and
seemingly almost unrecognised in Masonry yellow is, nevertheless, a
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true Masonic symbolic color since it symbolizes to the Mason that Great Thing
to the finding of which his Masonic Search is devoted and to the
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source of which his Masonic pathway leads the Light of Truth.
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Violet is the symbol of mourning, the Mason here adopting yet another+-#/*!4.,0!,0)!-#/*H-#',!28&+(.6!#%!,0)!I+'#/'<!4.,0!.,'!'#-.6H
of the conceptions of an ancient people, this time the Chinese.
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Blue is the supreme color of Masonry. First, because it is that color which,
among all those used in Masonry, is the unquestioned Masonic
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possession of every Mason. The Royal Arch Mason may attempt to appropriate
to himself the red, the Perfect Master may feel himself the
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exclusive
proprietor
of
the
green
and
the
black,
and
so
on,
but
blue
is
acknowledged
by every Mason to belong to us all and no Mason, whatever
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his degree, questions the Master Mason's ownership of blue. Second, blueX+/3.)/,!(8',)&.)'X!(.*0,!7)!%#1/6>!
is the supreme color because it has, coupled with its universality, a place
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in symbolism which, both as regards importance of lessons taught and as regards legitimacy as a symbol, is second to that of no Masonic color.
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The use of blue in religious ceremonials, and as a symbol, comes to Masonry from many of the different peoples of antiquity. Among the
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Hebrews various articles of the high priest's clothing were blue. one of the veils of the tabernacle was blue. In his initiation into the Druidical
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Mysteries the candidate was invested with a robe one of whose colors was#%!7#,0!,0)!?()&.3+/!2+',!+/6!.,'!#5)&+&30./*!=0&.',.+/!+/6b#&!
blue. The Babylonians clothed their idols in blue. The Hindoo god
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Vishnu was represented as blue. And among the medieval Christians blue )'#,)&.3!7)-.)%!'8',)('!_78!/#4<!+!',+/6+&6!
was considered a peculiarly important color.
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Blue was the symbol of perfection to the Hebrews, to the Druids the symbol of Truth, to the Chinese the symbol of Deity, and to the
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medieval Christians it was the symbol of immortality. So, for the Mason,2+&)6!,#!0+/6-)!+--!'#&,'!#%!/#/')/'.3+-!
the color of his Master Mason's lodge is the symbol of perfection,
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truth, immortality and Deity.
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Finally and preeminently, and following the teachings and conceptions P/)!(1',!7)!3+&)%1-!+7#1,!6)3.6./*!40.30!%+3,'!
of the Egyptians aald the Hindoos, blue is the symbol of that which the
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Craftsman must, since he is a Mason, always revere and of that which his Master
Mason's lodge must, when its work and its teachings are properly
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understood and accepted, cause him to Progressively revere the more Divine
Wisdom.
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In the lectures of the early part of the eighteenth century the Immovable Jewels'3.)/3)XA!,0)!+--)*)6!'3.)/,.%.3!)5.6)/3)!'1**)',./*!,0)!(./6Y'!
of the Lodge are said to be "the Tarsel Board, Rough Ashlar, and Broached
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Thurnel";
and in describing their uses it is taught that "the Rough Ashlar is for the Fellow
Crafts to try their jewels on, and the Broached Thurnel for the Entered
Apprentices
to learn to work upon."
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Much
difficulty
has been
met
with
in discovering
what
the Broached
was. Doctor Oliver, most probably deceived by the use to which it was
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assigned,
says in his Dictionary of Symbolic Masonry that it was subsequently called
the ' Rough Ashlar. This is evidently incorrect, because a distinction is made in
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the
and the latter for the Fellow Crafts. Krause (Kunsturkenden,1, 73), has
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! original lecture between it and the Rough Asmar, the former being for the Apprentices
translated it by Drehbank, which means a turning-lathe, an implement not used by Operative Freemasons. Now what is the real meaning of the word? If we inspect
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an old tracing board of the Apprentice's Degree of the date when the Broached Thurnel was in use, we shall find depicted on it three symbols, two of which will at
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once
be recognized as the Tarsel, or Trestle Board, and the Rough Ashlar, just as we have them at the present day; while the third symbol will be that depicted in the
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margin, namely, a cubical stone with a pyramidal apex.
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! This is the Broached Thurnel. It is the symbol which is still to be found, with precisely
the same form, in all French tracing boards, under the name of the pierre
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cubique, or cubical stone, and which has been replaced in English and American tracing
boards and rituals by the Perfect Ashlar.
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For the derivation of the words, we must go to old and now almost obsolete terms
of architecture. On inspection, it will at once be seen that the Broached
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Thurnel
has the form of a little square turret with a spire springing from it. Now, broach,
or broche, says Parker in the Glossary of Terms in Architecture (page 97), is
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"an
old English1'+/!
term for
a spire, still in use
in %;40*,7!
some parts0(6!
of the
country,
in Leicestershire,
where it is said to denote a spire springing from the tower without any
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intervening
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is
from
the
old
French
tournelle,
a
turret
or
little
tower.
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The Broached
Thurnel,
was the Spired
Turret.
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model
on which apprentices
might learn the principles of their art, because it presented to them, in
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its various outlines, the forms of the square and the triangle, the cube and the pyramid."
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Brother Hawkins had somewhat different conclusions about the matter and added 7##$'<!,0)')!+1,0#&.,+&.+/!&)*.()'!0+5)!./3-16)6!,0)!=+,0#-.3!
the following comments:
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Dictionary: "Broach, in Scotland, a term among masons, signifying to
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! "In Ars Quatuor Coronatorum (xii, 205), Brother G. W. Speth quotes from the Imperial
rough hew. Broached Work, in Scotland, a term among masons, signifying work or stones that are rough-hewn, and thus distinguished from Ashlar or polished work.
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Broaching-Thurmal,
Thurmer, Turner, names given to the chisels by which broached work is executed."
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And therefore Brother Speth suggests that the Broached Thurnel was really a chisel for the Entered Apprentices to learn to work with. We find that the new
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English Dictionary explains Broached as a term used "of stone; chiselled with a broach,"
or narrow-pointed chisel used by Freemasons; but Brother Hawkins points
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out
that this still leaves it uncertain what a "Thurnel" is.
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Brother Clegg has had the advantage of actually working with broaching tools and
therefore ought to know something about broached work. The word broach in
the
is usually+&)!
applied
the operation
of shaping
or forming
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a piece of metal or any other material can for example be furnished to a considerable
degree of accuracy by simply forcing the cutting tool through it as a final
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operation.
This is called broaching and the tools for the purpose are known as broaches.
A tool that is used to smooth out, a small opening by being rotated within it
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is often called a broach and, as will be seen, the idea is that the broach is used to form
a
special
shape. These special shapes therefore are known as work which is
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broached and this agrees very closely with the understanding that underlies each of the comments made above.
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The exact meaning of Thurnel or Thurmal is not any too clear but has evidently been applied to the instrument as well as the product of its work. Brother Charles
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Funk of the Editorial Department of the Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary of the English Language has very kindly read the above article and favors us
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with
the following comments:
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I have gone through fifteen or more dictionaries from 1643 up to Murray's New English Dictionary, including several dialectical dictionaries and one on archaisms.
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None of them record any such spelling as thurnel, thurmal, nor thurmer.
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Broach or broche, broch, broache, broych, brooch, brotch - are not so obscure. Five
centuries and more of usage still find the early senses preserved. But even so,
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ambiguity
is not avoided in attempting to determine the expression broached thurnel,
for broach may refer either:
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the mason's tool, a narrow pointed chisel by which he furrowed the surface of stone,
as in the quotation of 1703, "to broych or broach, as Masons an Atchler or
ashlar
when with the small point of their ax (?) they make it full of little pits or small%./6!,0)!0.66)/!)/-.*0,)/()/,!#%!-#/*H-#',!,&1,0'>!\#&!,0.'!-+,H
holes;" also that of 1544, " In hewinge, brochinge, and scaplyn of stone for the
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chapell
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dates from 1501, " For trassying & makyn moldes to the brooch."
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With this second and still current usage of broach, then, and assuming that thumel
is a variant spelling of tournelle, as it might well have been, we can derive a
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thoroughly satisfactory explanation of the expression and one which also agrees with
the old illustrations, a spired turret. This view may be further supported while
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we recall the old German form Thurm or tower.
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Murray lends further support to this view in his record of the variants of tournelle,
which appeared variously from 1400 to the middle of the seventeenth century
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as tornel, turnelle, tornelle, toumel, tornil, and tournell.
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All of this may lend weight to the theory as given by Mackey. But if this theory is accepted, the mystery is still unsolved, for by which logic would the symbol of
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Fellow
Craft be the Rough Ashlar and that of the Apprentice be such a highly finished work as the Spired Turrett One would expect a reversal of such symbolism at
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the least.
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It seems, therefore, that the explanation as a spired turret is inappropriate---one#%!7#,0!,0)!?()&.3+/!2+',!+/6!.,'!#5)&+&30./*!=0&.',.+/!+/6b#&!
would not expect an apprentice " to learn to work upon" such a structure. We are
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forced,
then, to consider the first definition of broach and to do some more or less )'#,)&.3!7)-.)%!'8',)('!_78!/#4<!+!',+/6+&6!
etymological guesswork with thurnel, which I am offering as a possible clue-I can
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not
locate the missing link to make it conclusive, for we have no reference books covering
the subject of stone-dressing tools on our shelves. Dialectically th was
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occasionally
substituted
for
f.
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We
have such instances as thane for fane, thetch for fetch, and thurrow for furraw, and
others. I would expect, therefore, to find some dressing tool, no longer
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employed,
perhaps, or now under another name, which was called a furnel, fournel,P/)!(1',!7)!3+&)%1-!+7#1,!6)3.6./*!40.30!%+3,'!
fornel, or even firnel, perhaps with an m in place of the n. It may be that the
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firming-chisel is the present type. This tool would be a tapered handtool, set in a flat
head to receive blows from a hammer, and would be used for rough dressing.
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Possibly it might be the former which was thus described in 1688:
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" The second is termed a Former, it is a Chissel used before the Paring Chissel in all works. The Clenser, or Former, is a broad ended Iron Plate, or Old-Cold? Chessel with a broad bottom,
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in an Handle; with which Tool they smooth and make even the Stone after it is cut into that form and Order, as the Work-man will have it."
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Canopy, Celestial and Clouded
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Ritualists seem divided in the use of the terms
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Clouded
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Entered Apprentice Degree (for the former, see
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Canopy, Clouded, and Covering of the Lodge). It
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would seem that the unclouded grandeur of the
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heavens should not be without advocates. Sir John
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Lubbock gives the following description of the
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heavens filled with stars in connection with the
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latest discoveries: "Like the sand of the sea, the
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stars of heaven are used as a symbol of numbers.
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We now
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but studded also with extinct stars, once probably
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The clouded canopy, or starry-decked heaven, is
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a "fundamental symbol of Freemasonry." In the
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lectures of the York Rite, the clouded canopy is
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described as the covering of the Lodge, teaching
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us, as Krause says, "that the primitive Lodge is
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universal, and reaches to heaven, and especially
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teaching that in every clime under heaven
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Freemason knows that by the clouded canopy we
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mean the heavens and that it teaches how widely
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extended is our sphere of usefulness. There is no
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portion of the inhabited world in which our labor
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cannot be carried forward, as there is no portion
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of the globe without its clouded canopy."
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Hence, then, the German interpretation of the
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symbol is that it denotes the universality of
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Freemasonry, an interpretation that does not
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precisely accord with the English and American
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systems, in which the doctrine of universality is
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symbolized by the form and extent of the Lodge.
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The clouded canopy as the covering of the Lodge
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seems rather to teach the doctrine of aspiration
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for a higher sphere; it is thus defined in this work
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under the head of Covering of the Lodge, which
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see.
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Entered Apprentice Masons Degree
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Brethren,
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Please join me in welcoming our newest
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Entered
Apprentice Masons who were initiated on
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May 13th, 2010.
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John Lee Padgett
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Christopher Ryan Blackmon
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Entered Apprentice Proficiency
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Brethren,
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Congratulations is hereby in order for Entered
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Apprentice
Brother Ethan Armentrout who has
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successfully
proven his proficiency with the
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Entered Apprentice catechism on May 27th, 2010.
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And, who has also been granted advancement to
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receive the Fellowcraft Masons Degree.
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Order of the Easter Star
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Athens Chapter No. 268, O.E.S. invites all the
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Masons to our chapter birthday/Father’s Day
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dinner at 6:30 PM on Monday, June 28th. The
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ladies will prepare the meal. At 7:30 PM, we will
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have our meeting, celebrating Father’s Day and we
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encourage all Masons who are Eastern Star
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members to attend the meeting.
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Then, on July 12th, we will have a covered dish
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supper at 6:30 PM, where we will honor Masons
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and our country. Our meeting will follow with
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Joe Clark, our speaker. Again, all Masons who
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are Eastern Star members are invited to attend the
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meeting. The dinner/fellowship is open to all.
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