Also as said before, you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who agreed that the *image* of the S&C is a closely guarded secret that should be removed from all masonic buildings, fliers, etc.
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So, anyone who hasn't gone through Royal Arch is a "suped-up-FC?" That's a little harsh.Now that isn't entirely true. As a M.M a true M.M not a suped-up-FC...you can put your your mark on your work for the benefit of instruction or to show your work is your work...
So, anyone who hasn't gone through Royal Arch is a "suped-up-FC?" That's a little harsh.
Okay, but if you tried me with York Rite Royal Arch stuff, you'd find me lacking, because I'm not York Rite. So even though I'm a 32° Knight Commander of the Court of Honor in the Scottish Rite, you consider me a "souped-up Fellowcraft?""Protect" to me is a loose turn for respect...if you incured a person with a masonic emblem...and you did something of that sign and the person couldn't or didnt know how to react to the sign or whatever it might be...the conversation or masonic conversation would end right there as a matter of protection for me anyways
Okay, but if you tried me with York Rite Royal Arch stuff, you'd find me lacking, because I'm not York Rite. So even though I'm a 32° Knight Commander of the Court of Honor in the Scottish Rite, you consider me a "souped-up Fellowcraft?"
No if I asked if you were a Mark Master Mason..your reply would be no...thats ends the conversation on that...if you tried me on Select Master...I couldn't go there because I have not done the Consistory Scottish Rite...Things that are veiled in allegory can be debated upon, but a person who has only completed one side of the Compass is often referred to as a 33 fellow craft...
So going back to the M.M...I would ask you...Are you a M.M...what induced you to become a Master Mason...then I would ask you to give me the Master's Word if you are a Master Mason...
Is the Temple complete on the Scottish Rite side...I dont know...if it is...I'll have to see when I get there
Select Master is YR; major inconsistency with your reply. Confirmed my suspicions...hope no one else engages you in this discussion. It's been unnecessarily disrespectful to every worthy Master Mason. Now we all can see why. As so many good men have stated, reading a monitor doesn't make you a Freemason.
It is important to remember there existed a time before the Hiramic Legend was laid down. I wonder if, back then, they thought of themselves as incomplete before a MM degree ever was. Because somebody in antiquity decided to extend Masonry with the opportunity of attaining light beyond what already was, does that necessarily nullify/cheapen/lessen the degrees that came before? We read from Masonic scholars such as Pike, Gould, and others that the chiefest and most profound of Masonic truths are to be found in Blue Masonry, being that of the first three degrees. Something to ponder.
The "Mason Word" of 17th century Scottish Masonry is far closer to our current "substitute word" than anything that is given as "the lost word" in high-degree Masonry today.But remember before then...the MM had the Master's word...it wasn't until the FC degree was split in to two degrees...and the Master's word was forgot to be put back in to it
But Crono you are right
Select Master is YR; major inconsistency with your reply. Confirmed my suspicions...hope no one else engages you in this discussion. It's been unnecessarily disrespectful to every worthy Master Mason. Now we all can see why. As so many good men have stated, reading a monitor doesn't make you a Freemason.