Practical Guide for the Master Mason (French book)

Guide pratique du Maître franc-maçon (Practical guide for the Master Mason)

Freemasonry (in French) - Éditions Conform

Author: Gaël Carniri

With the Master Mason degree, the scene changes completely. We are no longer in cosmic allegory or architectural symbolism: we enter the myth. If he continues on his path, the Master will meet this situation many times: it is that of most of the higher degrees – or “degrees of perfection”. The Master Mason degree is, historically as well as traditionally, the first of them.

Contents

• Preamble
• Becoming a Master: the break; death; dying and being reborn: progressiveness; the tripartition of man; being reborn to a new life; an individual responsibility: the awakening of conscience
• The temple and its symbolism: cosmogony; the temple; Solomon’s temple; the Masonic temple; the tracing board
• Raising to the Master’s degree: the mythodrama; the legend; the making of the myth
• The mysteries of the degree
• The Master’s tools
• The themes and concepts of initiation: rules of interpretation; the temple; the death of Hiram; sacrifice; the death of the just; palingenesis; the lost word and the substituted words; “In the beginning was the Word”; the secret; finding the word; from three to one and to the absolute; wisdom
• Subjects for reflection: time; order; morality; conscience; rite; progressiveness; fraternity
• A philosophical wisdom: from ethics to Joy; from Joy to fraternal Love
• Initiatory training
• Conclusion: to know, to recognise, to pass on
• Appendices and Bibliography

Features

• Title: Guide pratique du Maître franc-maçon
• Author: Gaël Carniri
• Publisher: Éditions Conform
• Language: French
• Condition: second-hand