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what happens in an installation?
The installation of a Worshipful Master begins with his presentation at the pedestal as a fit person of good morals and skill. Before taking office, the Master elect must listen to a reading of the ancient charges and lodge regulations, which set out his moral duties, obedience to civil law, allegiance to the jurisdiction, and governance of the lodge. Upon signifying his assent to these principles, he is regularly installed, bound to his trust, and invested with the badge of office.
PrestonAnderson
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what is the historical meaning of the blazing star in craft masonry and do preston and mackey agree on its symbolism
In early eighteenth-century monitors, the blazing star was not recorded, but by 1735 it was described as part of the lodge furniture situated in the center. Over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, various lecture systems interpreted the symbol differently: George Oliver noted an early tracing board where it represented Beauty, Thomas Dunckerley linked it to the Star of Bethlehem, William Hutchinson taught that it symbolized Prudence, and the 1813 lectures under Samuel Hemming defined it as the sun enlightening the earth.
Mackey
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What are the differences between ancient and modern lodge lectures?
Primitive or Andersonian lectures from the early eighteenth century were brief and differed in structure and symbolical explanation from later modern systems. In the First Degree, early lectures included details since omitted in standard modern usage—such as the duties of Entered Apprentices, the punishment of cowans, the "bone bonebox," the Master's clothing, the age of an Apprentice, and the direction of the wind. Conversely, early lectures omitted elements common to modern systems, such as the theological ladder, the parallel lines, and the traditional meeting places of ancient Freemasons.
Mackey
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What are the symbolic meanings of numbers in Freemasonry?
Numbers serve strictly as symbols and representatives of particular ideas or sacred objects, rather than entities possessing magical virtue or supernatural efficacy. The system rests on odd numbers, with three, five, seven, nine, twenty-seven, and eighty-one treated as the primary symbolic numbers.
Mackey
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What are the ratio of diameters of the 5 orders of columns and what is their significance
The height-to-diameter ratio for the Tuscan column is seven diameters; the Doric is eight; the Ionic is nine; and both the Corinthian and Composite orders are ten diameters high.
PrestonFinch
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