Monday, November 18, 2024

A Brother Asks: How can you Prove Previous Light?

  

A Brother Asks: How can you prove previous Light?

Coach: Great question! 

Here's a quick list of 12 things off the top of my head...

Proving Previous Light (APPRENTICE LEVEL)

1. Explain to another human being exactly what a vice and a superflity are and how they are divested successfully.

2. Communicate how you identified and divested yourself of at least 5 vices and/or superfluities. 

3. Explain how one goes about setting one's plumb. 

4. Communicate how to create one's square of virtue. 

5. Explain how setting your plumb is related to your use of your twenty-four inch gauge. 

6. Communicate the differences between a desire and a passion. 

7. Explain how you can tell when someone has not circumscribed and subdued their passions. 

8. Communicate: 

        a. what our masonic purpose is, 

        b. where you will find it clearly spelled out in our ritual, 

        c. and how you go about fulfilling it. 

9. Explain: 

        a. where one finds God's rules & designs, 

        b. how one prepares one's self to both understand and employ them, 

        c. and what structure one applies them to. 

10. Name 12 reasons and 8 premises justifying the belief in God to fulfill one's masonic purpose. 

11) Share and explain what 17 Working Tools are used, displayed, conveyed, and need to be used or developed to perfect one's Ashlar before moving on to Second Degree Activities. 

12) Explain how the modern day definition of the word "perfect" is different from the definition employed by our original ritual writers.

You have 24 hours to complete... yeah, open books are okay.

Begin!

 

 

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