CLC - Fellow Craft - 05.22.17

K ING S OLOMON ' S T EMPLE King Solomon’s Temple, the men and events surrounding its construction and the operative mason’s tools and techniques used in the project provide the symbols which distinguish Speculative Masonry. The construction of the Temple represents a Mason’s erection of his spiritual, moral and Masonic edifice, symbolically begun when he is placed like the cornerstone in the northeast corner of the Lodge as an Entered Apprentice. Having studied secrecy and brotherhood as an Apprentice, together with an orientation on the basic principles of the craft, he takes his next step as a newly obligated Fellow Craft when he approaches the pillars at the porch of the Temple. Improving himself by aid of the lessons inherent in Masonry’s symbols and supported by his faith, the Mason continues his progress toward his ultimate reward.

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