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The Lodge As A Symbol Op The Woeld
SOUTH . A Masonic Lodge is therefore a symbol of the world . This symbol is sometimes , by a very usual figure of speech , extended , in its application , and the world and the universe are made synonymous , when the Lodge becomes , of course , the symbol of the
what is symbolically .. ' . said to bethe form of the Lodge , while the Pillars of Hercules in the west , on each side of the straits of Gades or Gibraltar , might appropriately be referred to the two pillars that stood at the porch of the Temple . NOETH .
universe . But in this case the definition of the symbol is extended , and to the ideas of length and breadth are added those of height and depth , and the Lodge is said to assume the form of a double cube . * The solid contents of the earth below and the expanse of the heavens above will then give the outlines of the cube , and the whole created universef be included within the symbolic limits of a mason ' s Lodge .
By , always remembering that the Lodge is the symbol , in its form and extent , of the world , we are enabled , readily and rationally , to explain many other symbols , attached principally to the first degree , and we are enabled to collate and compare them with similar symbols of other kindred institutions of antiquity , for it should be observed that this symbolism of the world , represented by a place of initiation , widely pervaded all the ancient rites and mysteries .
* " The form of the Lodge ought to he a double cube , as an expressive emblem of the powers of darkness and light in the creation . "—Oliver , Landmarks , vol . i . p . 135 , note 37 . f Not that whole visible universe , in its modern signification , as including solar systems upon solar systems , rolling in illimitable space , but in the more contracted
view of the ancients , where the earth formed the floor , and the sky the ceiling . "To the vulgar and untaught eye , " says Dudley , " the heaven or sky above the earth appears to be co-extensive with the earth , and to take the same form , inclosing a cubical space ., of which the earth was the base , the heaven or sky the upper surface . "—Naology , 7 . And it is to this notion of the universe that the Masonic symbol of the Lodge refers .
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The Lodge As A Symbol Op The Woeld
SOUTH . A Masonic Lodge is therefore a symbol of the world . This symbol is sometimes , by a very usual figure of speech , extended , in its application , and the world and the universe are made synonymous , when the Lodge becomes , of course , the symbol of the
what is symbolically .. ' . said to bethe form of the Lodge , while the Pillars of Hercules in the west , on each side of the straits of Gades or Gibraltar , might appropriately be referred to the two pillars that stood at the porch of the Temple . NOETH .
universe . But in this case the definition of the symbol is extended , and to the ideas of length and breadth are added those of height and depth , and the Lodge is said to assume the form of a double cube . * The solid contents of the earth below and the expanse of the heavens above will then give the outlines of the cube , and the whole created universef be included within the symbolic limits of a mason ' s Lodge .
By , always remembering that the Lodge is the symbol , in its form and extent , of the world , we are enabled , readily and rationally , to explain many other symbols , attached principally to the first degree , and we are enabled to collate and compare them with similar symbols of other kindred institutions of antiquity , for it should be observed that this symbolism of the world , represented by a place of initiation , widely pervaded all the ancient rites and mysteries .
* " The form of the Lodge ought to he a double cube , as an expressive emblem of the powers of darkness and light in the creation . "—Oliver , Landmarks , vol . i . p . 135 , note 37 . f Not that whole visible universe , in its modern signification , as including solar systems upon solar systems , rolling in illimitable space , but in the more contracted
view of the ancients , where the earth formed the floor , and the sky the ceiling . "To the vulgar and untaught eye , " says Dudley , " the heaven or sky above the earth appears to be co-extensive with the earth , and to take the same form , inclosing a cubical space ., of which the earth was the base , the heaven or sky the upper surface . "—Naology , 7 . And it is to this notion of the universe that the Masonic symbol of the Lodge refers .