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What are the key learnings for the candidate in the 3 degrees of Craft and Mark, Royal Ark Mariner, Royal Arch Chapter degrees? Can you each of them in a couple of words (adjectives or noun forms of adjectives)?

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Candidates in the Craft receive lessons in moral self-governance, virtue, and fraternity 13. Entered Apprentices and Fellow Crafts are taught to establish foundations of truth, justice, temperance, fortitude, prudence, and charity, curbing unruly passions through self-restraint and adjusting actions by the square, level, and plumb 1. Claudy explains that as candidates advance through the three Craft degrees, they encounter the Three Grand Pillars of Wisdom, Strength, and Beauty, with the Master Mason degree directing them to the Five Points of Fellowship as the key to brotherhood 3. Wilmshurst sees the Craft degrees as a three-stage progression culminating in a mystical death and raising in imitation of the Grand Master 2, a lesson Mackey identifies with the doctrine of resurrection 5.

In the Royal Arch, the candidate is instructed in spiritual re-erection and inner regeneration. Wilmshurst describes the rite as symbolizing the rebuilding of the fallen temple of the human soul and the journey from Babylon to Jerusalem 2. Symbolic figures such as Nehemiah and Ezra represent distinct stages of self-integration and self-reconstruction, resisting distraction from the outer world 2. Waite adds that the degree's crimson emblem signifies the candidate's expected zeal, fervour, and fidelity 4.

The supplied passages do not set out the specific moral or philosophical teachings delivered to candidates in the Mark or Royal Ark Mariner degrees. Waite notes only that the Mark degree shares its distinguishing colors with the Craft, and that the Royal Ark Mariner degree uses rainbow coloring in reference to the Legend of the Flood 4.

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