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Why is King Solomon's Temple central to Masonic symbolism?
King Solomon's Temple forms the central framework of symbolic instruction because it provides an architectural allegory for the structure, fall, and restoration of the human soul. The spiritualizing of this sacred edifice represents the interior and spiritual man built as a fitting dwelling place for divine truth. Drawing upon the biblical concept that the individual is a temple of God, the system uses the construction of the First Temple to symbolise human life occupied in the search after wisdom.
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