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    The Lodge of Living Stones, No. 4957 - The Ceremony of Initiation - Analysis and Commentary
    The Lodge of Living Stones, No. 4957 - The Ceremony of Initiation - Analysis and Commentary
    The Lodge of Living Stones, No. 4957 - The Ceremony of Initiation - Analysis and Commentary
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    The Lodge of Living Stones, No. 4957 - The Ceremony of Initiation - Analysis and Commentary

    By W. L. Wilmshurst

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    First published in 1932, this insightful title delves into the secret world of the Freemasons. Usually exclusive for members only, W. L. Wilmshurst takes us through the intricacies of mason initiation, detailing the admission steps for members.

    Freemasonry is the teachings and practices of a secret fraternity of men, formed from the origins of stonemasonry and cathedral builders in the middle ages. Since its beginnings, the brotherhood has increased in popularity, with the first Grand Lodge being established in the 1700s. Around this time, the order adopted the rites and trappings of ancient religious orders and chivalric brotherhoods.

    William Leslie Wilmshurst was a founding mason of the Lodge of Living Stone No. 4957, located in Leeds, Yorkshire. He first founded the lodge in 1927 to further the esoteric meaning behind the masonic rituals. This book narrates the initiation ceremony for a freemason of the Lodge of Living Stone, providing step by step analysis of each part of the admission.

    Chapters in this book include:
      The Admission
      The Prayer of Dedication
      The Perambulation or Mystical Journeying
      The Professions of Freedom, Motive, and Perseverance
      The Advance from West to East
      The Obligation
      The Restoration to Light
      The Revelation of the Greater and the Lesser Lights
      The Entrustment with the Secrets

    The Lodge of Living Stones, No. 4957 - The Ceremony of Initiation - Analysis and Commentary is a unique read for those interested in the masonic culture and initiation and would like to know more about the mysterious brotherhood.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateSep 6, 2016
    ISBN9781473353640
    The Lodge of Living Stones, No. 4957 - The Ceremony of Initiation - Analysis and Commentary

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      The Lodge of Living Stones, No. 4957 - The Ceremony of Initiation - Analysis and Commentary - W. L. Wilmshurst

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      THE LODGE OF

      LIVING STONES

      NO. 4957

      THE

      CEREMONY

      OF INITIATION

      ANALYSIS AND COMMENTARY

      By

      W. L. WILMSHURST

      First published in 1932

      Copyright © 2021 Joseph. Press

      This edition is published by Joseph. Press,

      an imprint of Read & Co.

      This book is copyright and may not be reproduced or copied in any

      way without the express permission of the publisher in writing.

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available

      from the British Library.

      Read & Co. is part of Read Books Ltd.

      For more information visit

      www.readandcobooks.co.uk

      Contents

      INTRODUCTION

      I

      II

      III

      IV

      PART I

      I THE ADMISSION

      II THE PRAYER OF DEDICATION

      III THE PERAMBULATION OR MYSTICAL JOURNEYING

      IV THE PROFESSIONS OF FREEDOM, MOTIVE, AND PERSEVERANCE

      V THE ADVANCE FROM WEST TO EAST

      VI THE OBLIGATION

      VII THE RESTORATION TO LIGHT

      SUMMARY OF PART I

      PART II

      VIII THE REVELATION OF THE GREATER AND THE LESSER LIGHTS

      IX THE ENTRUSTMENT WITH THE SECRETS

      X THE TESTING BY THE WARDENS

      XI THE INVESTURE WITH THE APRON

      XII THE CHARGE IN THE N. E. CORNER

      XIII THE WORKING TOOLS

      XIV THE TRACING BOARD

      CONCLUSION

      A NOTE UPON THE FRONTISPIECE

      THE

      CEREMONY

      OF INITIATION

      ANALYSIS AND COMMENTARY

      INTRODUCTION

      I

      These notes are intended as a Manual of Instruction for the benefit of Masons who have recently taken their First Degree, and for that of other Brethren wishful to undestand the purpose and the meaning of the Initiation Ceremony. The endeavour to indicate the reason for the existence of the Masonic system, to draw aside the veil of allegory and symbolism in which the Initiation Ceremony is clothed, and to reveal its spirit and subsurface significance.

      The First Degree Ceremony used on the reception of a Candidate into the Craft is designed to introduce him to the first stage of a system of knowledge and self-discipline which, if faithfully followed up and lived out in his personal life, will clarify and transform his mind from its natural state of darkness to one of Light, i.e., expanded clear-seeing spiritual consciousness raised far beyond and existing independently of the perceptions of the natural senses. It is, therefore called a Ceremony of Initiation form in ire to go inwards, i.e., beyond the merely material surfaces of things), and because it is meant to mark the beginning (initium) of a new order of personal life and consciousness. It might equally well be called one of Regeneration or Rebirth; indeed its parallel in Religion is the sacrament of Baptism, which is the initial incident of the religious life and is performed at the West end of a Church, just as a Masonic Candidate enters the Lodge and begins his Masonic career in the symbolic West. It is a ceremony provided to give an answer to what the Candidate professes to be the predominant wish of his heart—a wish well expressed by probably the oldest prayer in the world, which is still used daily by millions of our fellowmen in the East:—

      From the unreal lead me to the Real;

      From the darkness lead me to Light;

      From the mortal bring me to Immortality!

      The presence or absence of this aspiration in a Candidate should be the test of his fitness for Initiation. Any less exalted motive for seeking Initiation falls short of the true intention. The Candidate’s attitude should be one of definite intelligent expectation of spiritual good to come to him, and of positive aspiration and heart-hunger for it; equally definitely it must not be for any material or social advantage, nor a merely negative state of curiosity or uncertainty as to what is to be found in the Craft.

      II

      For every Candidate the Initiation Ceremony implies that whatever academic or scientific learning he possesses, whatever philosophical ideas he holds, whatever religious creed he professes, prior to Initiation, there remains something more—indeed something vastly more—for him yet to learn and to which the Craft can help to lead him. This does not mean that he will necessarily discover his previous convictions to be false; on the other hand, so far as they be true he will find abundant confirmation and amplication of them, and so far as they are erroneous or imperfect he will learn to modify them. It means that he must be prepared to find some of his wonted and perhaps even most deeply rooted ideas to be apprehensions of Truth so partial and limited that they operate as obstructions to the wider vision which might be his, and that the more tenaciously he clings to them the more he may be blocking his own light. If, therefore, he is to profit by the Light to which the Craft leads he must be prepared to keep his mind open and fluid and to make such mental self-surrender as occasion

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