"And he saw dreaming and building a ladder
It was on the ground, above it reached the sky.
I see the angels of God going up and down. "
Genesis 28:12
In the entrance apprentice degree, the candidate is listening to a free Masonic lesson symbolized by the sky decorated with stars, or a cloudy canopy covering the substance's earth. This symbolism has an important meaning that many European and domestic lodges continue to revitalize their lessons by drawing objects such as stars and planets on the ceiling. Signed in that symbol is an additional veil for some kind of sensible and serious truth called "Jacob 's Ladder".
In the Genesis, we are reading that a man named Jacob slept in the middle of a journey from Beersheba to the province of Haran. In his dream, he saw a big ladder that had one end on the ground and the upper reach far to heaven. Jacob looked like he saw "God's angel" going up and down the ladder. He seemed to be even more expensive. He also seemed to have heard that Jacob and his descendants promised to inherit the land where Jacob slept, looking at himself standing on it. When waking up, Jacob declared the sacred ground, arranged the stones used for the pillow in the pillars, and named the place Bethel means the house of God. (Genesis 28: 10-19).
Just as for many other stories of the Old Testament, for those who do not claim literal interpretation, the legend of Jacob 's Ladder actually concentrates on very old culture deep concerns and beliefs I am telling you. What I read carefully on the book of Genesis is that when you read the whole book it seems the whole is divided and it is difficult to read as one continuous and seemingly lacking essential background information I can see. Recent academic research concludes the reasons for this fact that Egypt tends to more fully explain why it was important to Freemasons' ancestors.
Jacob's vision was a fragment of the richer life's tradition. Ancient teachings on the connection between the ground world and the world of God. This tradition is further emphasized in the Freemason ritual by explanation of the tablet called Boaz and Jacin discussed in the previous chapter. In this tradition, it is said that the connection between the two worlds is broken. Angels close the entrance to the Garden of Eden with a sword of fire, and further reading on the article about Jacob's ladder informs you that he is trying to climb the ladder to heaven. For many who read this story it is an important event to describe the depravity of human beings against sin and the necessity of God's redemption. But the ancient tradition behind that story is far more enlightening.
Ancient Egyptians absorbed many of Mesopotamia's early cultural and religious practices, from which the legend of Gilgamesh was born. In that legend, there is an amazing story about a man who walked the earth looking like it is now known to mankind. They were on the ground to learn what existence on the earth had to teach. And, when the lesson was learned, in order to enrich the environment of God by the influence of the earth, we left the earth in heaven. (The Genesis book actually contains part of this legend about "Watcher" or "Giants") This legend has become the benchmark of Hermes Tris Megestis. His philosophy is Hermisite as "the slogan of God" that will be below. "
According to the ancient tradition, the story about the ladder of Jacob is a leading and insightful story. Due to the place of the sacred place Jacob slept, it is believed to serve as a complete conduit between the earth and the world of God, together with other similar sacred places. In other words, as many people believe, the ancients believed that there is a sacred place to worship God more than others. In part, this legend tends to devote more light to the Jewish brothers and Jerusalem 's terrestrial significance to Christians and Muslim brothers.
For Freemasonry, there is another lesson to learn from Jacob's vision. While certain dogs and doctrines claim the sole right for a bridge between heaven and earth, God and human beings, their doctrines and doctrines are the way to complete God's journey. There are other effective methods as well. In fact, it reminds us that incorporating diversity is essential to establish true freedom. More importantly, Mason is encouraged to think for himself, pray to God himself, and build relationships with God who do not depend entirely on specific doctrines and in the middle of doctrine. God created a person with his own image. He did not make dogma and doctrine in the image. It was made by humans.
In the latter point, ancient writer Firo (Philo) confirmed that Therapeutae practiced what Free Mason Lee is currently talking about acquiring the knowledge of God. The story, such as the Old Testament, should be read for a symbolic message, not for a natural recitation of the history of facts. Therapeutae considered wisdom by reading the Bible and interpreting its ancestral philosophy as allegory. I think that the word of the text is a symbol of what the hidden nature was revealed by studying its meaning.
Masonic books teach it by the use of symbols and by so doing encourages members to understand that God's most lasting lesson has not yet been regenerated from the past mist. The Prophet and Our Lady said that humanity indeed hurt all the surfaces to be learned. Those who were walking to move from one place to another can now fly. Ancient civilizations could not communicate with each other, but today's countries communicate instantaneously. Mankind is tied closer. Hundreds of thousands of people live in urban environments, and men at one end of the planet are cultivating the needs of others. Human relations with God are both direct and free by outside doctrine and doctrine, and are indispensable for absorbing the concept of brotherly love not as a mere concept but as a way of life.
There are some lessons learned from Jacob 's Masonic symbol of Ladder. Can you find others?
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