SECOND INSTRUCTION OF THE MASON APPRENTICE

To G D G A D U

To Aug and Response L Simb Machado Stone Masons nr

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Or from Machadinho do Oeste-Ro.

WORK REF. SECOND INSTRUCTION IN GR of

Apr M

V M and others IIr continuing the process

of initiation to the degree of Apr M with the graces and
lighting of G A D U we begin to describe the
what we understand from Monday instruction
received in this L and dealt with Pain of Apr M .
At this stage of learning, we are introduced to
about Pain from L and its Symbolism for the Degree of
April M We start with the format of the L. , whose measures
symbolic encompass the whole universe, indicating to the
Apr , that to M it is an institution of universal reach,
present of the Or to the Oc of N a S scope this
what does the Charity of M mean that must be full
within the limits of each one.
Charity, this wonderful ability that we
was entrusted by the divinity. In Ecclesiasticus 4:5,6 it is
Do not turn your eyes away from the needy, do not
give occasion to those who ask you to curse you, because
the depreciation of what curses will be addressed in the
bitterness of your soul, and he will respond to you who the
created". But Charity, that the M practicing should be
guided by the words of Master Jesus: "When,
for charity, do not sound a trumpet before you,
like the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets,
to be glorified by men. Indeed
I tell you that they have already received the reward.
No L from L two Muslims, the prophet Muhammad
pray and exalt generosity, charity,
hospitality, gratitude, and condemns in harsh terms to
greed, the lie, hypocrisy, avarice, desire,
disloyalty, pride, arrogance. The prophet says:
In your goods, may there always be a share for
poor and the forsaken" 51:18, also: "And those who
they overcome their own greed, they are the winners
V M in my understanding, the Charity of M no
can only be conceptualized from the point of view
material of charity. Charity should be seen as
a much broader social and human concept and
comprehensive, that should be the horizon of all M .
Practiced in its fullness as part of evolution
spiritual, used to understand all of the
meaning of humility and simplicity, after all if the a
Match the goal is to improve society,
it is necessary that you improve yourself first. This poem
by Amado Nervo, summarizes a bit of the true
Charity: "Every man who seeks you has some
thing to ask of you: the rich bored, the pleasantness of
your conversation; the poor, your money; the sad, a
console; or weak, a stimulus; the one who fights a
"moral help." Every man who seeks you certainly
There is something I want to ask you.
And you dare to be impatient! And you dare to think: “that
a tragedy! Unhappy! The inscrutable law that divides
mysteriously the dignities deign to you
grant the privilege of privileges, the good of goods,
the prerogative of prerogatives: to give! You can give!
Yes, at all hours of the day! May it be a smile, a
a handshake, a word of comfort! In all the
the hours of the day are similar to Him, who is a gift
perpetual dissemination and perpetual gift.
You should kneel before the Father and say to Him:
Thanks because I could give my Father. Never again
the shadow of impatience will pass before me!
Truly I tell you that it is better to give than to receive!
And when the day comes for the Most High to ask for an account of our
works, you can tell him. Yes, Oh! Almighty God and
Omnipotent, I served my Brother; I gave my best.
to the Men; I was useful on this Earth; I practiced the true
Charity.
In the continuation of the learning, we were told about the
meaning of the three great Cols support of all
L Match Regular, Fair and Perfect.
V M the symbolic columns are the supports of
Official Match It is said that the Store is supported by three
great columns: WISDOM – personified in
V M to be able to devise. M the IIr let's see what
it teaches us in Ecclesiasticus 4:28,29 'And do not withhold'
the word when it can be healthy. No
hide your wisdom in your beauty. Because the
wisdom is revealed through the tongue, and common sense
and the doctrine shows itself in the word of man
cordato" AFORÇA- represented in the 1st Vig , for
sister; in Isaiah 12:2 we have 'I will trust and not be afraid'
for the Lord God is my strength"; and BEAUTY–
figured in 2nd Vig to adorn. Thus the Sabedorianos
guide in all our initiatives; the force sustains us in
all our difficulties, and the beauty that adorns the
inner man. When Hermes asks Osiris what
It means the inner beauty of this vision: "I no longer see from
body and yes with the spirit. How did this happen?
God responds to you: Son of dust, behold the Word is in
that which in you understands, sees, throbs, is the very
Verb, the sacred fire to the creative word.
V M the universe is T from Div to whom
Wisdom, Strength, and Beauty surround Your throne
like the columns of His Works, because His Wisdom is
infinite, Your Strength is omnipotent, and Your Beauty shines
in the symmetry and order of all creation. Each M é
considered a column of your L what does it symbolize
Universe; in Apoc To the victor,
I will make a column of my God, and of it
it will never come out

IIr Jacob's ladder that appears on the panel of

Apr whose steps go from the earth to the sky symbolizes
merely the involutive and evolutive cycle of life, in
its perpetual ebb and flow, through births and
deaths. In Gen., 28:12,13 it is written: 'And
Jacob dreamed: And he saw in his dreams a ladder set up
about the earth, and its summit touched the sky;
and also the angels of God ascending and descending; and the
Sir stood on the ladder, saying to him: I am the
Lord God of Abraham; and God of Isaac: and I will give you
and your descendants the land in which he sleeps.
For the M the steps of Jacob's ladder signify the
three virtues known from the profane world: Faith,
Hope and Charity. The three great virtues are
symbolized respectively by the cross, anchor, and chalice,
what figure on the stair of many steps (stair of
Jacob) that rises to the heptagonal star.
Symbolically, these steps represent the virtues.
through which the soul can ascend to reach the highest
perfection symbolized by the aforementioned star.
But to reach the top of Jacob's ladder we must
be vigilant all the time, as it depends on our
efforts towards the conquest of perfection; just as initiated in
in the mysteries of Hermes Trismegistus, who in search of
truth asks the hierophant: "Will I be allowed,
someday, aspire to the rose of Isis and see the Light of
Osiris?” We replied to him: “That does not depend on us. The
truth is not given; we find it ourselves or,
so, we didn't find you. We cannot make you
a follower; it is necessary that you are able to be one for yourself
Even.... Don't rush the opening of the divine flower. If
It must come in its due time. Work and pray.
with fervor.
Because divinity gives us intelligence, strength,
wisdom and free will so that we can
understand our strengths and weaknesses, and with the
purpose of walking slowly, more firmly, in
direction to the enlightening light; and, not to let ourselves be discouraged
for the difficulties we will encounter along the way.
Thus says Osiris to the initiate: "The soul is a veiled light."
When it is neglected, it darkens and goes out, but
when the holy oil of love is poured over her,
it lights up like an immortal lamp
The Mosaic Pavement (not of mosaic), that is, of religion
of Moses is one of the ornaments of the L with your
alternating black and white checkered, symbolizing
animated and inanimate beings that decorate and adorn
the creation, as well as the bond of spirit and matter, day and
night, good and evil, light and darkness, the beginning and the end, the
life and death, after all, the Mosaic pavement represents the
harmonic dialectics.
The Pav Mos reflects the Match , in its different colors and
opinions; the positive and negative polarity of nature, and the
duality of good and evil, through whose labyrinth must the
started walking oscillating or decided, but
always dangerously, towards perfection.
The Pav Mos , it is the symbol of contrasts, of variety of
creeds and races of the world, and the extinction of prejudices
racial and religious, in short the Pav Mos it is the soil and path
The path of the just is upright; the just walks in it. Isaiah 26:7
it's your path
V M o Pav Mos should be a source of inspiration to
IIr , which should be viewed in dialectics as another tool
for a harmonic and fraternal solution to the divergences and
contrasts of viewpoints. These contrasts that never
they should take the real IIr the disunity, struggles and
complaints; after all, if one of the objectives of the Freemasonry is to fight and
to work for a better world; this goal only
it will be achieved, after we become better men.
Only men who have managed to overcome their own
errors, the pride and vanity that blinds the soul, finally,
only those who know themselves can serve
as a tool for a better society.
Beware of playing the role of a joker and of
traitor, because such a flaw will make you fall
insensibly in low and coarse manners, and
will cause others to lose respect and consideration
that they feel for you.” Epictetus.
The Sawtooth Edge, which surrounds the Mosaic Pavement whose
The first Masonic meaning is Love, symbolized by the
universal attraction. The multiple teeth should remind of the
stars of the Universe and the planets that orbit around the
Thus, by analogy, men must unite with love.
fraternal. It also remembers The Family and the Homeland, that is,
children should unite around their parents and the nation in
back to the respective boss. Being of radiant appearance, this
remember that the M they must spread these principles of
Universal Harmony around the World.
In Ecclesiasticus (3:7,8,9,10) it is written: 'He who honors...
your father will find his joy in his children, and will be
attended on the day of your prayer. You will live a better life
dilated; and what obeys it will give refreshment to its
Mother. Son, support your father's old age and do not give him
sorrows in your life; and if they are missing you
forces, support him, and do not despise him for having more power
than he, because of the charity that you have shown
with your father, it will not be forgotten.
V M of the 81-knot cord, which symbolically represents
the chain of union that unites all Freemasons of the world,
we have pending the four TASSELS or Marquetry Edge,
that no ritual M is considered an emblem of the Wall
of Protective Guardians of humanity, constituted by
Men who have reached the pinnacle of evolutionary perfection.
Esoterically, the four tassels represent the virtues.
cardinals: Temperance, Courage, Justice and
Prudence.
As we have seen, the upright is the step of the just, and straight is his.
way, The Masonic Precept for Justice is this: we must
do unto others what we want done to us
do, but in the positive sense of doing, not in the sense
the negative of not doing..
Courage does not mean physical fearlessness and the absence
not out of fear, but rather resistance to temptations and vices and
the courage to love your neighbor as yourself.
Temperance, a quality necessary for living socially
in peace and, to not offend others For the
M Temperance means being discreet, not revealing the
secrets of the Institution to PProf not letting oneself be dragged
through passions and vices, and enjoy the pleasures of life with
moderation.
Prudence means that the mind is above all.
M must deliberate firmly, guide cautiously its
acts and nothing swearing without the approval of the conscience.
From the four cardinal virtues, the four duties are inferred.
fundamentals of M self-love, in the sense of
love for one's own duties; love for others; love for
Family and love for the Fatherland. However, above all, love.
to God,G A D U because this love involves everyone
too much.
Withdraw to your own inner self to elevate yourself to
Principle of things, the great Triad that shines
in the immaculate ether. Consumes your body with the fire of
your thought, detach yourself from matter like the
call of the wood that devours. Then your spirit will cast.
it will be through the pure ether of eternal things” Orpheus.
V M the first geometric figure that can be drawn
, it is the circle, centered by the point. Taken by
with the C
excellence as a solar symbol, there the infinite is combined
with the beginning of every manifestation or evolution. The relative
and the absolute is found, as represented by the action of
C which, in turn, represents duality and unity. By
this reason adopts the Maç the C like one of your greats
symbols, and place it over the Alt from the Loj linked with the
Esq to symbolize the Macrocosm, and the L from L what
it means the Wisdom that illuminates and directs both the
Macrocosm as the Microcosm. The three are
considered the great Jewels and the great Lights of
M symbolically meaning measure and justice.
I will guide the blind to the road that does not
I will make them walk along paths that always
they ignored. I will turn darkness before them into light and them
"crooked paths in rights" Isaiah 42:16.
O N e o jewel furniture used hair
Pr e Seg. Vig. respectively; represents the
social equality and the righteousness of judgment that must be
always watched by the true Masons so that never
suppress your brother contributing to inequality
social, which dulls the spirit of the masses through oppression
material, and impartiality in judgments, for in the face of
do G A All men have the same rights and duties.
. Always working aiming for the good.
Seneca says: "A good citizen never loses his
work: this is heard and seen. Its features, its
gestures, your silent stubbornness, and your way of walking,
everything helps.
V M the second we must therefore; even if the costs
from the hardest efforts, and, with divine help seek
incessantly for the wisdom to be able to serve as
example of society and ourselves, and that our
knowledge and learning, no matter how insignificant it may be
to radiate and serve as a port for our lesser brother
favored by luck. May the gods say amen.
Nothing is great on earth except Man, and nothing
Nothing is great in man except the soul – Pico D` Mirandola.
Do not let yourselves be led by passions and be just - Quran

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