Reflection gathering
"So your heart will be perfect.
I walked the law of the LORD our God,
I will keep his orders ... "
1 Kings 8: 61
According to the Jewish literature and tradition, great attention was paid to the personal conditions of all Israelis who entered the temple due to sacred worship. Talmud made the following request. "No one can wear a pair of shoes, wear shoes, clothes, or put it in a wallet, no one can enter the temple.The stone is related to the preparation of visitors to the lodge I adopted some of the Jewish customs.
Although not the Jewish origin, the reflection room, which is incorporated into the candidate's preparation at some American lodges, is the latest version of the ancient cave. Nevertheless, it simply serves to prepare candidates to enter the sanctuary. Typically, the room is only a candle that illuminates many decorations, including human skulls, human bones, buns of buns, water flasks, hourglasses, salted saucer, and others It is a small room illuminated and it contains sulfur. Candidates are imprisoned in themselves and quietly contemplate the sacred significance of the intended Freemason's journey.
Sitting at the table, the candidate needs to write a philosophy to read loudly at the lodge later. In order to compose its will, the candidate must seek out his real feelings about the change from life, death, self material property to mental fate. It is not surprising that the symbols in the chamber originate primarily from alchemy - the science and philosophy of metamorphosis.
Alchemists believed that salt extracted from seawater by the process of evaporation would constitute fire elements brought by water. Sulfur is what the sun gives to the human body. Coupling of salt and sulfur symbolizes life and death, or light and darkness that nourish each other. Therefore, a general candidate for Freemasonry degree is not fully knowledge about alchemy or the symbol it is adopting, but he is a spiritual being from all life evolution and continuity, material life Until it is a matter of personal experience. Every human being lives, dies, and lives again, but no one can fully understand how it feels before actually happening.
For Masons, the time of Reflection Chamber symbolizes the trial of life. The first lesson to learn is that there is nothing inherently good and bad. They are responsible for making the problems better or worse depending on how they act. Therefore, the first lesson is about the importance of accepting responsibility for your own actions.
Hourglass asks candidates to reflect irreversibility over time. Material life continues to advance towards respect and there is little precious time to participate in the development of the spirit. Bread means conversion from raw to fully cooked, from raw wheat to human edible bread. Mason is not valuable to the world alive because he was ordered to command. Rather, if he can bring benefits to society and humanity, he must prepare himself through research and application of knowledge acquired by him. The flask of water represents fertility, ie regeneration, in which desire and baptism are also symbols. The regeneration described by this symbolism is not a resurgence of the spirit and soul but a resurgence to the moral and good life of the physical body. Revitalization of the spirit and soul brings profits to individuals, renewal of life resolution will benefit others. Most religions teach that if we do not update material lives to do good work, we will not prepare them perfectly for eternal life.
Candidates are essential to understand that masonry does not teach that good works achieve spiritual and soul salvation. Rather, religion teaches its lessons in various ways. The Freemason's instructions on the way of life in life - how the "work" of one human life actually reflects "faith", the journey in which the truth room prepares the candidates according to the grace of God It is not a salvation that can come only, but a journey to a better life, never a human work or an act.
The human skull placed in the chamber is meant to remind the candidate that death is a great tranquilist. Humans can not escape the grass. Human beings can not truly know how I am dead until I die. The skull is also intended to teach the candidate that death is also a source of life. The truth that the contribution to the life of death is virtually depicted as the life of plants and animals dies to be consumed by human life. When a good person dies, his behavior remains and contributes to the well-being of the living people. The opposite is true for bad people. His bad behavior dies with him, but the influence of that action may live long for a long time since he died. Lessons learned with masonry can increase the chances that members will become their source of living for others' own deaths. It is not the cause of sorrow or suffering.
Symbols placed in the reflection room are intended to make the importance of distinguishing between real and fantasy into the hearts of fresh people. As humans keep up with the real thing, they release themselves from the phantom and immediately put the light and the darkly opposite. In many cases, evil behavior is the result of a confusing imagination. In Hitler's twisted fantasy, the Jews were responsible for the sick sickness. I often imagine that a serial killer takes pleasure and brings joyfully with violence.
Energy is a fruit of inconsistent power that resists each other. It becomes positive energy or negative energy depending on whether the dark side of life is too unduly. Rather than always shining the light on the earth, it does not always shine in the human soul. About twelve hours in 24 hours every day, darkness takes precedence. In human life, he does not always enjoy his health. The body is sick for at least several days. It is against the law of nature, it is not a matter of how to get rid of darkness. Rather, it is a matter of what to do when surrounded by darkness deciding whether or not positive energy always wins.
In preparation for the journey of Freemasonry the candidate must be guided to reflect where he is in his life, regardless of whether the journey begins with the period of private contemplation in the reflection room not. How must he accomplish a journey between those two points. Many of the American lodges have not taught this valuable lesson outside the candidate's Freemasonian career. In most cases, candidates are simply "prepared" according to how they dress. This is explained after the journey has started. A case where what is meant by pursuing masonry or nothing is said about the reason why pursuit is meaningful to people and society until one or more degrees are notified to the candidate.
Is it possible to reintroduce the important symbolism of the reflexes to the activities of Freemason Lodges that some of the people leaving the craft will continue pursuing after a very short journey? Is it important to teach candidates what he is expected of before he gets a degree in Freemasonry? Symbolism is a way to show how words produce images and how those images become elements of myths. It is a fictitious story with a circle of truth to run along the winding path leading from desire to idea, action. Since the masonry conveys its wise and serious truth over the symbol chosen over time, it is very likely that candidates of degree will highly appreciate the meditation required for him before embarking on Freemason's journey It is important.
For many Masons, the pursuit of knowledge and wisdom is an ongoing process of research, application, review of what was previously studied, and further application of new lessons. This process is consistent with the encouragement frequently uttered at Freemason's lodge. "Collect what is scattered and adjust what looks to be inconsistent Each of us is experiencing the necessity to match and different each other.We also believe in distrust Certainty and doubt. Order and confusion. We, who can read this writing, are still experiencing the difference between what we know as life and death, whether there is a difference or not not.
In your freelance Masonic career, if you had not been allowed the opportunity to contemplate at the reflex conference center before you got your degree, lower your head and give your great architect your life Let me know how you are there and how to travel to the end of your life. As with all Freemason problems, the choice is yours. As applicable to all Freemason matters, there is no one who enters a major important business without first calling for God's blessing.
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