Masonic Ritual
The Three Great Lights in Freemasonry
The Holy Bible, Square, and Compasses.
The emblem of innocence and the badge of a Mason.
Lambskin or White Leather Apron
THIS is the place where Brothers Fellowcraft received their wages whilst working on King Solomon's Temple.
What is the Middle Chamber?
The moment when a man becomes a Brother.
Upon completing the reciting of the Entered Apprentice Obligation
Signified by the three tapers, the Lesser lights in Freemasonry are these.
The Sun, The Moon, and the Master of the Lodge
This is a figure of two dimensions.
Superfice
A symbol of industry and cooperation.
Bee Hive
This is masonically declared a place of darkness.
North
In Blue Lodge, this Masonic garment is the prerogative only of the Worshipful Master.
Top Hat
A representation of the ground floor in King Solomon’s temple.
The Mosaic Pavement
The name of the left hand pillar that stood at the porch of King Solomon’s Temple.
Boaz
A symbol of immortality and of faith.
acacia
This is the port to which the rafts of timbers for Solomon’s Temple were floated.
Joppa
This allows the candidate to be “removed” from the lodge if he decides not to proceed with the degree.
Cable tow
The Holy Bible, Square, and Compasses.
What are the 3 Great Lights?
Of the seven liberal arts and sciences this one is most revered by Masons
Geometry
A symbol of untimely death
Broken Column
It's what Masons traveled upon to reach the Middle Chamber.
This denotes peace because of its' purity and remote situation in which it grows.
What is the Lily Work?
A beautiful border or skirting.
What is the Indented Tessel?
In the Master Mason Degree, there are theses many Emblems explained.
13
(Pot of Incense, Beehive, Book of Constitutions guarded by the Tyler's Sword, Sword pointing to a naked heart, Anchor and Ark, Forty-Seventh Problem of Euclid, Hourglass, Scythe, Common Gavel, Spade, Coffin, and Sprig of Acacia.)
This symbol teaches us to "...punctually observe our duty, press forward in the path of virtue, and, inclining neither to the left nor right, in all our actions have Eternity in view."
The Rule
King Solomon's Temple is located here.
What is Mount Moriah in Jerusalem?
The Five steps also allude to THESE human senses.
What are seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling, and tasting?
Hieroglyphically represents Divine Providence.
Blazing Star