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What place does Kabbalah occupy in Freemasonry?
Kabbalistic tradition provides interpretive parallels for several core symbols and narrative themes. In the Craft, Waite identifies Kabbalistic texts such as The Garden of Pomegranates and The Gates of Light as providing the rationale for the symbolism of Pillars J and B, offering an explanation of strength in the left-hand pillar and establishment in the right-hand pillar that Scripture alone does not supply.
WaiteArs Quatuor Coronatorum
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Moral virtues
The Craft inculcates both the four cardinal virtues—temperance, fortitude, prudence, and justice—and the three theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity. Within lodge symbolism, these seven virtues are represented as the steps of Jacob's ladder.
MackeyWilmshurstFinch
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The end of the stream
That is 2 on Jacob S Ladder.
Follow any of them to its sources, ask something of your own, or take up another subject.