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32. What do the three steps represent? |
The three principal supports in Masonry, namely: wisdom, strength, and beauty; they also allude to the three stages in human life: youth, manhood, and old age; they further allude to the three degrees in Masonry: Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft, and Master Mason. b. What are the three principal supports in Masonry? Explain. c. What three principal officers do the numbers represent? |
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33. What do the first five steps represent? |
The five orders in architecture, and the five human sensed. b. What are the five orders in architecture? c. The Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite. d. What are the five human senses? e. Hearing, seeing, feeling, smelling, and tasting; the first three of which have ever been deemed highly essential among Masons: hearing, to hear the word; seeing, to see the sign; and feeling, to feel the grip, whereby one Mason may know another in the dark as well as in the light |
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34. What do the seven steps represent? |
The seven Sabbatical years, seven years of famine, seven years of war, seven years in building the Temple, seven golden candlesticks, seven wonders of the world, seven planets; but, more especially, the seven liberal arts and sciences, which are grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. For these and many other reasons the number seven has ever been held in high estimation among Masons. |
