{"id":40,"date":"2004-08-02T12:47:02","date_gmt":"2004-08-02T19:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theeduca.mywhc.ca\/?p=40"},"modified":"2004-08-02T12:47:02","modified_gmt":"2004-08-02T19:47:02","slug":"celestial-terrestrial-globes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashlarcollege.ca\/ashlar-archived\/celestial-terrestrial-globes\/","title":{"rendered":"Celestial & Terrestrial Globes etc."},"content":{"rendered":"

CELESTIAL & TERRESTRIAL GLOBES<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

WHY do we make reference to Celestial & Terrestrial Globes on the Top of our Pillars when it is totally conceded that at the time of King Solomon the World was considered FLAT?<\/h3>\n

Atop many old pillars is found a terrestrial globe that may have been out there originally as the result of mistaking two bowls, one super-imposed on the other, for a globe. This mistake may originate from misleading \u201cWoodcuts\u201d in the Geneva Bible of 1560.<\/p>\n

Albert Mackey suggests that the very chapiters themselves were the spheres or globes to which our lecture alludes. They are described in the Book of Kings: \u201c And upon the top of the pillars was lily work; so was the work on the pillars finished\u201d<\/p>\n

The plant called the lily in our ritual is really the LOTUS, or Egyptian water lily. To the Egyptians the lotus was a symbol of the Universe and hence, although we have changed the flower from the lotus to the lily, which crowned the chapiter and surmounted each pillar at the Porch, into a globe, the interpretation of universality has been retained. Thus the celestial & terrestrial globes are symbols of the universal extension of the Order and of Brotherly Love.<\/p>\n

Another thought is that these Masonic symbols may have been derived from the Egyptian symbol of the winged globe. Common among the Egyptian monuments is a symbol of a globe supported on each side by a serpent and accompanied with wings extended wide beyond them. It is suggested that the round figure of the Egyptians is an EGG, figurative of the creation, and not at all a Symbol of the Form of the World.<\/p>\n

Thus the Egyptian lotus OR lily, the globe OR egg, and the Masonic globes are all symbols of something universal, and the Masonic idea has only restricted, by a natural impulse, the idea of the Universality of the Order.<\/p>\n

What a pity that our Modern Ritualists did not preserve the Egyptian and Scriptural symbol of the Lotus surrounded by a ball or sphere, and omit the more modern figure of the Celestial & Terrestrial globes.<\/p>\n

Adapted from Albert Mackey\u2019s Encyclopedia of Freemasonry.<\/p>\n

SOME PIECES OF FINE ADVICE<\/h4>\n
    \n
  1. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.<\/li>\n
  2. When you say \u201c I Love You\u201d mean it.<\/li>\n
  3. When you say \u201cI\u2019m Sorry\u201d look the person in the eye.<\/li>\n
  4. Never laugh at other\u2019s dreams. People, who don\u2019t have dreams, don\u2019t have much.<\/li>\n
  5. Remember the three \u201cR\u2019s\u201d Respect for Self; Respect for Others; & Responsibility for all your Own actions.<\/li>\n
  6. Don\u2019t let a little dispute ruin a great friendship.<\/li>\n
  7. Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.<\/li>\n
  8. When someone asks you a question you don\u2019t want to answer, SMILE, and ask<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \u201cWhy do you want to know\u201d?<\/p>\n

    A THOUGHT TO PONDER<\/h2>\n

    God gives us a new day each morning,<\/p>\n

    We can spend it in joy or in sorrow,<\/p>\n

    We can\u2019t change what happened yesterday,<\/p>\n

    And we don\u2019t know what\u2019s coming tomorrow.<\/p>\n

    So as long as today is what we have,<\/p>\n

    It seems like a good thing to do<\/p>\n

    To make it as nice as a day can be<\/p>\n

    For ourselves and for others, too!<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    \u201c The interior of a Freemason\u2019s Lodge is composed of Ornaments, Furniture and Jewels. The Ornaments of the Lodge are the Mosaic pavement, The Blazing Star, and the Indented of Tesselated Border; the Mosaic pavement is the beautiful flooring of the Lodge, The Blazing Star the Glory in the Center, and the Indented or Tesselated Border the skirt work round the same. The Mosaic pavement may justly be deemed the beautiful flooring of a Freemason\u2019 Lodge, by reason of it\u2019s being variegated and chequered. This points out the diversity of objects, which decorate and adorn the creation, the animate as well as the inanimate parts thereof. The Blazing Star or Glory in the center refers to the Sun, which enlightens the Earth, and by it\u2019s benign influence dispenses its blessings to mankind in general. The Indented or Tesselated Border refers us to the Planets, which in their various revolutions form a beautiful border or skirt work round that Grand Luminary the Sun, as the other does round that of a Freemasons Lodge.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[83,84,71],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-educator","tag-entered-apprentice","tag-freemason","tag-tracing-board"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"MasterMason","author_link":"https:\/\/ashlarcollege.ca\/ashlar-archived\/author\/mastermason\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"The Educator<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"\u201c The interior of a Freemason\u2019s Lodge is composed of Ornaments, Furniture and Jewels. The Ornaments of the Lodge are the Mosaic pavement, The Blazing Star, and the Indented of Tesselated Border; the Mosaic pavement is the beautiful flooring of the Lodge, The Blazing Star the Glory in the Center, and the Indented or Tesselated…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashlarcollege.ca\/ashlar-archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashlarcollege.ca\/ashlar-archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashlarcollege.ca\/ashlar-archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashlarcollege.ca\/ashlar-archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashlarcollege.ca\/ashlar-archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashlarcollege.ca\/ashlar-archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashlarcollege.ca\/ashlar-archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashlarcollege.ca\/ashlar-archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashlarcollege.ca\/ashlar-archived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}