What is your favorite Masonic symbol? Why is it your favorite what does it mean to you? Sometimes I wonder how much time Masons spend actually considering the symbols of the craft. As a new Mason there were so many symbols, and they were all new to me, that I didn't take much time to consider each one individually. In truth there are still a lot of symbols that I haven't spent much time contemplating. However of the few that I think about regularly, I do have a favorite. It is the Plumb.
The Plumb was one of the first symbols to catch my attention. Originally this was because the first piece of ritual I learned was the EA lecture. The wording in my jurisdiction says that it teaches rectitude of life. I had to get out a dictionary and look up the word rectitude, the definition given was "uprightness of character". It really seemed to me that uprightness of character was a good starting point for everything I wanted to do in Masonry.
I still think of this today. The idea of measuring my actions by the Plumb has become my simple, shorthand tool to remind myself that I am called upon to be better today than I was yesterday
The Plumb was one of the first symbols to catch my attention. Originally this was because the first piece of ritual I learned was the EA lecture. The wording in my jurisdiction says that it teaches rectitude of life. I had to get out a dictionary and look up the word rectitude, the definition given was "uprightness of character". It really seemed to me that uprightness of character was a good starting point for everything I wanted to do in Masonry.
I still think of this today. The idea of measuring my actions by the Plumb has become my simple, shorthand tool to remind myself that I am called upon to be better today than I was yesterday