Guide pratique de l’Apprenti franc-maçon

Guide pratique de l’Apprenti franc-maçon (Practical guide for the Entered Apprentice Freemason)

Freemasonry (in French) – Éditions Conform

Author: Gaël Carniri

As an initiatory society, Freemasonry offers the Entered Apprentice a method that invites an enlightened analysis of one’s own behaviour, strengths and weaknesses.
Following this path means knowing the stages and the essential landmarks. This guide aims to provide them, whatever the Masonic obedience, without imposing anything, and without offering a ready-made, one-sided interpretation either.

Features

• Author: Gaël Carniri
• Publisher: Éditions Conform
• Language: French
• Degree: Entered Apprentice

Contents

• Preamble
• Becoming an Apprentice: your lodge welcomes you; on the Masonic oath; dying and being reborn; “Know thyself and thou shalt know…”
• Freemasonry: where does it come from?; discourse on method; the rite, a break with the profane world; different rites
• The lodge: the offices; the meeting; papers and pieces of architecture; group work; personal work
• Temple of Solomon and Temple of Humanity: the symbolism of the Temple; the Temple of Man and the Temple of Humanity
• Points for reflection: rupture and passage, from profane to sacred; living the rite; self-knowledge; self-transmutation; the Temple of Solomon; the Temple of Man and the Cave; building oneself, building; horizontality and verticality; silence and speech
• Initiation: the Chamber of Reflection; the journey through the Temple; purification by the elements; “My Brethren recognise me as such”
• The Apprentice’s toolbox: the tools; the number Three; words, signs and grips; the Apprentice’s step; the battery; the acclamation; the sword
• The Temple: the columns and the Wardens’ desks; the East; the centre of the Temple; the dimensions and orientation of the Temple; the starry vault; on the walls of the Temple
• The Masonic career: initiatory progression; preparing for the Fellow Craft degree; being an eternal Apprentice; the Masonic Order; the Masonic landscape; the organisation of obediences
• Conclusion; bibliography