Unique Questions & Answers Test Bro. Rabbi Eno Ytneves was the author of The Masonic Instructor published over 100 years ago which contains a number of questions and answers with a slightly different perspective. Over th next couple of editions, I will post a few of these test questions. Bro. Ytneves opens with a great statement regarding publishing a book with such ritual: The danger of non-masons learning anything of Masonry, alarms the souls of many. The danger of masons learning nothing of it, never seems to trouble them. The following is only a selection of Book 2 with a different approach. 1. What did the temple of KS emblematically represent? Nature and humanity 2. What did these represent? The natural world comprising the variegated surface on the centre; also the chequered pathway of human life, the Divine Providence that constantly surrounds it, and the Divine Wisdom and Light that will direct man’s steps if he will but open his eyes to its guiding rays. 3. What did the pillars signify? The equinoxes of nature – spring and autumn, and of human life – youth and age. 4. Why were the pillars adorned with network, L and P? Because between the spring and autumn equinoxes the earth shows forth in its summer adornment the Unity, Purity and Fertility of Nature. 5. What symbolic lesson does this teach us? That the candidate in the glory of his manhood, passing between the equinoxes of youth and (old) age, should learn that the true secret of S.. and S… in human life, as in nature, lies in Unity of plan, Purity of heart and Fertility of mind.
It is worth re-reading these questions slowly and think what the answers mean.
Cross Keys April 2021
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