Master's Memento - The Lost Word

Master's Memento - The Lost Word

Freemason

Author: Pierre PELLE LE CROISA

In the rank of Master, the gestures are particularly eloquent and occupy a capital place: walking backwards, turning and overturning the recipient, trips in search of the architect, the discovery of the body, the sign of horror. , the unsuccessful attempts to raise the dead man practiced by the two Supervisors, his recovery by the three lights of the lodge, the touching of life that are the five perfect points of Mastery ... everything, absolutely all the movements and all the postures that are experienced in the ritual are significant because they are eminently symbolic.

What do they mean? The reversal of the dead expresses the reversal of life. The flaming star (in which the man is inscribed) gradually fades to announce that one stage of existence is disappearing for another to appear. The overthrow of the recipient evokes his " metanoia ", The total transformation of being. The circumambulations around his body refocus the world on its "essence", its inner being. The branch of acacia, evergreen, indicates that beyond death life is always present, that there is "marrow in the bones"; that this marrow is the knowledge which is transmitted by tradition: and that it is revived in a new Master who the relieves, who se notes, "more radiant than ever".

So, from the physical world to the spiritual world, from the knowledge of the old Master to the recognition of the new, a trans-ancestry takes place. It opens, through the three degrees of the "Small Mastery" (which brings together the 3^th, 4^th and 5^th degrees) towards a continuation of the Solomonic myth in the upper workshops ...

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• Language : French