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Masonry believes in even-handed justice as Level. Symbol of equality. One of the working tools
it believes in freedom of thought, speech, and of the FellowCraft, emblem of the Senior Warden,
conscience, always with due regard to the freedom and one of the "immovable jewels ." Few symbols are
of others. less understood. Equality does not mean of wealth

Golden Rule. A Masonic principle and one of the or social distinction. It refers to manhood, and to
the internal, not the external qualifications. The
oldest standards of human conduct. Seven centuries equality of brethren in a lodge is that of the dignity
before the Christian era, to mention only one ancient and worth of the human soul, without regard to
use of the square as an emblem of morality, a Chinese man-made distinctions. Masonry teaches the dignity
author wrote a book called The Great Learning in of human personality and bases its estimate of a
which appeared the statement: "A man should not brother upon what he is as man and a Mason. The
do unto others that which he does not wish others to walls that separate men in other relations of life are
do unto him." Then the Chinese sage added: "This is broken down. Any system of government, political or
called the principle of acting on the square." ecclesiastical, that sets up any kind of tyranny over

Just and Upright. A phrase used to denominate an the bodies, minds, or souls of men is entirely foreign
Entered Apprentice as he stands in the northeast to the spirit of Masonry.
corner of his lodge. Just here means complete, perfect,
as a lodge is just when it has the required number of
brethren present to open and work. Upright refers to
character rather than posture.

Points of Entrance. Perfect Entrance into the lodge
and upon the covenant, penal responsibilities, and
instruction. Illustrated by the Cardinal Virtues.

Square. The symbol of the Master, of rectitude of
life and conduct; of morality, truthfulness, honesty.
So universal is the knowledge of its meaning that the
word has percolated into all strata of society. The
square man is the honest man. To act upon the square
is to act honestly.

Common Gavel. Symbol of means of perfecting. As
the gavel, breaking off "the corners of rough ashlar, so
the symbolic use of the gavel divest the character of
undesirable habits, the vices and superfluities of life.
The spiritual nature of Masonry is introduced by this
use of the gavel in fitting our minds as living stones
for that house not made with hands, eternal in the
heavens.

LLight. Universally as well as Masonically a symbol
of truth, knowledge and wisdom. However, its
significance in Masonry is much more extensive,
containing within itself an abstruse allusion to the
very essence of Speculative Masonry. Freemasons are
called the Sons of Light because of their possession of
the true meaning of the symbol, while the profane or
uninitiated who have not received this knowledge are
said to be in darkness. Darkness, the negation of Light,
symbolic of ignorance and evil. Masonically, the north Source: Selected articles by Jack Levitt, MWPGM-
is a "place of darkness," an echo of a day when early CA, and the Coach's Handbook, Section 4 of the
man, whose world was in the northern hemisphere, Montana Masonic Manual.
observed that the sun never traveled in the northern
sky, always moving from east to west by way of the
south.
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