The Lodge

"The Lodge represents the world into which we are born. Physically it is confined to the four walls but symbolically it extends in all directions from the Altar and the Three Great Lights, from the East to the West, between North and South, from the earth to the heavens, and from the surface to the center. (The Entered Apprentice, Issued by Grand Lodge of Illinois, Committee on Masonic Education, 1981, page 10)

". . . the Lodge is a symbol of the world and the ritual the drama of the life of man." (The Lodge, The Short Talk Bulletin, vol. V, No. 12, December, 1927, page 5)

". . . if the Lodge is the world, so initiation is a symbol of our birth into it. . . . the Masonic initiation is a symbol of our birth out of the dim snese life into a world of moral values and spiritual vision . . ." (The Lodge, The Short Talk Bulletin, vol. V, No. 12, December, 1927, page 7)



July 22, 2007