So the WM said...

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**** a be nice streak decided to run through my mind....deleted other thought*****

 

[CoachN]

the two uses of the rope or cord in our ritual, is as a cable tow or as a plumb line. Plumb line is the answer. There is a third use but rarely given outside of the emulation ritual. Amos7: 7-8 shows this was used by g-d; and the verses from numbers & deuteronomy indicates the tassel and the cord of the tzitzit are to remind one to keep the commandments of the lord. ... The tassel is symbolic end of a rope or the plumb line.

The wm asks the sw "how do masons meet?" .... Sw replies "on the l---l"; jw "how act?" ... Jw replies"by the plumb"

where in the lodge is the plumb line? The ritual states the plumb line is present in the lodge. Some emulation lodge may still have the plumb line in the 4 corners of the lodge; but this is not true in most all lodges of us gls. ... Now we come full circle, all masons wears his own personal plumb line hanging on the left hand side of his apron. The apron stings or the apron tassels! Tzitzit if you are jewish.

The final dot: .... The opening and closing of the lodge: "meet on the level"; "act by the plumb" and "part upon the square" ... Is the description of the meeting of a lodge by masons properly clothed (aprons).

Now another thought, coachn mentioned the compass drawing the circle. The plumb line is able to do another function, that is to mark the point from which the mason draws his "due bounds" about himself.

The end of my un-common catechism.

bravo!

 

[edwmax]

Winter ....

Then you do not understand the simple symbolism of the Tassel. The tassel is the knotted frayed ends of a Rope or Cord which keeps the rope from unraveling and later became a decorative tuff or Tassel. A Tassel ‘tuff’ by its self is symbolic of the Rope or the Rope end, and this was indicated in the reference MOSAIC PAVEMENT - Tasselated Border of the Lodge “…the cord and the tufts attached to it being the tassel, …” A Tzitzit is a braided cord with frayed ends. See pictures in the previous reference

“In operative times the four tassels that were suspended in the four corners of the lodge room represented guides, which were intended to assist a freemason to maintain a just and upright life, whence was derived the reference to the four cardinal virtues ….” Ref: Chapter XX - The Four Tassels

Amos 7:8 or the Judgment of Hashem is a warning to keep the Commandments as those who have been spared often, shall be spared no longer. Whether, the translation should be ‘pardon or pass’ is immaterial. But the used of the Plumb Line as a tool to measure wickedness or good and as a warning to keep the Commandments is the same as the Tzitzit is to be a reminder to keep the Commandments.

The Plumb symbol at the JW station is an emblem of a ‘wooden plumbing device’ and the emblem of office. It is not a Plumb Line.

 

[BukeyeJackson]

I've decided to remove the post.

 

[Bob Franks]

Ok so the WM did it again to a newly raised Brother and one returning his exam.
After the charge the WM stepped of the sidelines (it was move up night) and said a few words. Now before I delve any deeper; I was wondering if the monument was the same in each jurisdiction?

It has to do with the word "interment" and an urn.

In the North Carolina Lodge Manual by Charles Bahnson, 1892, there is only a drawing of the monument, but none of the words, so I, for one, would not be able to discuss it in the open...

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