A long time ago in a monastery a cat entered in the abbey during commissioning meowed and jumped on the altar, the abbot can not tolerate, asked the novices to take the cat and tie before the function to release him at the end of the same. They spent many abbots and many generations of novices, always the cat was tied before the function and released at the end of the same. This story continued until the arrival of a young abbot who asked novices why the cat tied to untie the end of the mass. Their answer was succinct: "why so did the novices before us, because we have always done so." Heard the answer l 'Abate told them not to tie the cat and left more brooding.
No ifs no buts quotes
I deliberately chose not to use quotes from books, even from the most authoritative authors. Not presumptuously but for two simple reasons. The first: all of you are probably the finest connoisseurs me of Masonic literature and "Scottish". The second: a job full of copy and paste or become a hodgepodge or become a scientific study. Without ifs and buts, because it is right and proper to present their ideas even if they go against the majority of opinions (after Parmenides already attacked the opinion as fake knowledge). Freemasonry is a school that forges respect and confrontation but also in the degree of the Scottish Rite should teach us not to be fearful, but men willing to learn and express their thoughts even from the pack.
The apron of leather or leather and silk before then is indispensable business tool as well as a sign of belonging and teaches. In signum sak from the root that is going to show. Signum, that is, it needs to introduce or give a clue. In this sense, in my opinion, it has a double meaning. The first is that of an external manifestation of the degree of awareness reached. The second, valid especially for aprons Rite, is that they are a tool of meditation; watching them help through meditation to grasp the "secretum" varying degrees of accounting. This is just to mention the front of aprons, we often forget that they are also compounds (and it is an integral part) by a "rope" (laces). This "rope" used to cingerli hips turns the apron in a track designed to separate what is up and what is down, separate as there is material from what is spiritual. Moreover, the reference to the sacred is immediate. Finally if the apron is the first tool of work and protection, because never in a Lodge of Improvement, in Chapter etc. you should give up its use?
Considerations necessary and perhaps insufficient on the apron as a tool
During the Masonic initiation, the apron is girded around the waist and are delivered gloves. On this occasion usually the speaker among other things explains that they are of the instruments. But is it a tool? We could say that the instrument is everything with which and for which means you can operate an action. In its etymology instruere that are going to build, but instruere is all 'origin also to instruct (that we could read as coaching from the inside); struere well as educate, refer to two other words that it is the literal meaning that in the deeper ones are or should be linked; they build and destroy. The first is the particle with (together) and strudere (merge, sort), then put together multiple objects neatly [1]; the second is the deprivation of particle with the opposite direction, then we will have destruere (unpack, put down). After answering and rambled on what may be an instrument, the next question is: What am I doing? I use it! It is a simple answer, perhaps trivial, but with strong implications. What it means to use the apron? Certainly not enough to encircle, but if we started to do so would be a step forward. A leap forward and project ourselves in the subtle world to perceive the true importance. Not only on subtle levels, even on the physical plane it is a memento from one side and a beacon to guide us in our thinking about the symbols on the other. The tools both physical and no are donated to Mason because they can use to improve more and more in Art; the single best efforts to become a member of the school and especially in order to better convey what has been received.
Considerations necessary and perhaps insufficient on the apron as a tool
During the Masonic initiation, the apron is girded around the waist and are delivered gloves. On this occasion usually the speaker among other things explains that they are of the instruments. But is it a tool? We could say that the instrument is everything with which and for which means you can operate an action. In its etymology instruere that are going to build, but instruere is all 'origin also to instruct (that we could read as coaching from the inside); struere well as educate, refer to two other words that it is the literal meaning that in the deeper ones are or should be linked; they build and destroy. The first is the particle with (together) and strudere (merge, sort), then put together multiple objects neatly [1]; the second is the deprivation of particle with the opposite direction, then we will have destruere (unpack, put down). After answering and rambled on what may be an instrument, the next question is: What am I doing? I use it! It is a simple answer, perhaps trivial, but with strong implications. What it means to use the apron? Certainly not enough to encircle, but if we started to do so would be a step forward. A leap forward and project ourselves in the subtle world to perceive the true importance. Not only on subtle levels, even on the physical plane it is a memento from one side and a beacon to guide us in our thinking about the symbols on the other. The tools both physical and no are donated to Mason because they can use to improve more and more in Art; the single best efforts to become a member of the school and especially in order to better convey what has been received.
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Michele Leone
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bibliography
Porciatti U.G., Simbologia massonica - gradi scozzesi, Atanòr 1981Sebastiani A., La luce massonica vol. 4, Hermes Edizioni 1993
Mainguy I., Simbolica dei gradi di perfezione e degli ordini di saggezza, Edizioni Mediterranee 2007
Bernard E. Jones, Guida e compendio per i liberi muratori, Atanor 2001
Palingenius, L’Orthodoxie Maconnique, in La Gnose, n° 6 1910
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