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Slide Show During the Lectures

Rick Carver

Premium Member
If your Lodge uses the standard slide set that JP Luther sells, have you ever noticed that picture that is shown when Pythagoras is discussed? I could be wrong, and I often am, but isn't that a painting of Enoch?

There are a couple of other things that I noticed. The picture of the Perfect Ashlar shows a rectangle stone. A Perfect Ashlar is a cube, is it not?
 

BroBook

Premium Member
I think it's an oblong square!!!


Bro Book
M.W.U.G.L. Of Fl: P.H.A.
Excelsior # 43
At pensacola
 

Pscyclepath

Premium Member
All the slides are somewhat dated, and may need a lot of work to match them up with your particular jurisdiction's adopted work and/or monitor. I wound up starting with a basic set of the "magic lantern" slides converted to PowerPoint, and had to tweak the arrangement and often some of the slides to make them match the material in our monitor. Still tweaking a good bit, looking to see what works, while walking the fine line of getting along with the Grand Lodge and past masters...

Is this the image you're talking about?


Hard to tell just who it might really represent... but given the other stuff, I don't think an exact representation is needed... after all, there are various representations of the other characters as well.
Pythagoras_2.jpg
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Pythagoras_2.jpg
Pythagoras_2.jpg
 

Rick Carver

Premium Member
That is part of it. Our slide show his entire body. When I visited the National Art Gallery in DC, that painting is hanging there and the guide book says that painting is of Euclid. It could be wrong.
 

Rick Carver

Premium Member
I think it's an oblong square!!!


Bro Book
M.W.U.G.L. Of Fl: P.H.A.
Excelsior # 43
At pensacola

If it is oblong, I have been told it is called a prepend. The perfect ashlar is equal at all angles and equal in all dimensions. Maybe I am wrong.
 

dfreybur

Premium Member
I thought an ashlar is perfect because it measures exactly to the required dimensions, not because it is cubical.

Most of us are taller than we are wide, wider than we are deep. Over the years some of us do gradually approach cubical. Sigh!
 

otherstar

Registered User
A perfect ashlar is a smoothed stone fit for the builders use (so it can be oblong or cubical). What matters most is that it is NOT a rough stone. A rough stone is a rough ashlar. A perfect ashlar is a rough ashlar that has had the rough and superfluous parts removed so that is now uniform and smooth so it can be used in a building.

I don't have it handy, but I seem to recall that the illustrations of the rough and perfect ashlar in my Texas Monitor are of rectangular stones.
 

MarkR

Premium Member
England uses a cube as the perfect ashlar. In America, and smooth stone roughly twice the length as height and depth is most common. Our rough and perfect ashlars in my lodge are 6" X 6" X 12"
 

Rick Carver

Premium Member
Where did you find that quote if I may ask?
Dr. John Nagy wrote about it in his book Building Hiram. He suggests that the process of perfecting the ashlar is removal of those things not required by the builder. He also states that the builder adds nothing to the stone.
 
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