It is indeed worthy of inquiry the character of this illumination that is the object of such ardent pursuit on the part of the candidate, who is as willing today as in the age of the Eleusinian mysteries to brave the terrors of the unknown for its acquirement. Superficially the term Light may be deemed […]

Most of the Masonic eloquence that one hears into which are introduced references to the working tools of the “sublime degree” being wound around their purely spiritual associations, as conceived by the speakers, it is altogether lost sight of that there are practical reasons for the selection of these figures as chief among all symbols […]

No single term associated with the hidden mysteries of ancient Freemasonry is so fraught with significance as this one “cardinal point” of the terrestrial compass. If we had no other means of surmising the common origin and purport of the world’s philosophical and religious mysteries, we should still be driven to associate them with the […]

Many commentators on the antiquities of the craft say that the letter G that occupies the center of our distinctive emblem is merely a substitute for the Hebrew letter Yod, which, as the initial and representative of the ineffable name Jehovah, properly belongs there, but is replaced by G because the latter “is English.” It […]

The second section of the Fellowcraft degree has a reference to the origin of the Jewish Sabbath. as well as the manner in which it was kept by our ancient brethren, which altogether escapes notice except as a passing Biblical reference. The fact is that it is one of the most important of the ancient […]

Students on the alert for signs of Masonic import in the relics of bygone ages will find them in many unexpected corners, if they know what they are and how to recognize them. The artistic and architectural canons of the ancient world were all based upon systems of geometrical squares like those of a chessboard […]