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What are the movable and immovable things ok the lodge.

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Movable jewels are traditionally identified as the Square, Level, and Plumb Rule, which are assigned to and worn by the Master, Senior Warden, and Junior Warden respectively 2, as recorded by the Square Magazine.

Immovable jewels consist of the Tracing Board peculiar to each degree, the Rough Ashlar, and the Perfect Ashlar 1. In early eighteenth-century ritual catechisms and older English workings, the immovable jewels were instead listed as the Trasel Board (or Tracing Board), the Rough Ashlar, and the Broached Thurnel 1, a point also noted by the Square Magazine. Masonic scholars have long debated the exact nature of the Broached Thurnel, interpreting it variously as an untouched quarry stone, a working chisel, a double square, or a turreted stone structure 1.

The Square Magazine notes that in certain jurisdictions outside that of the United Grand Lodge of England, the categorization of movable and immovable jewels is reversed, placing the officers' jewels among the immovable group and the stones and tracing board among the movable.

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