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Creator

Corcuera, A. Leynes

Language

English

Year

1964

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I( is the mail who suffers a real deprivation that an ideal is first necessity of life; for man is an idealist by nature, and only great sufferings give birth to great ideals; and never, but this time, is the Cross more symbolic of mans ultimate hope; and prayers, more timely. No one can repress the liberty of conscience. The axiom — "the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom” — has survived, up to this day, as a cult even to the infidels: and, as the salvation or damnation of the soul depends, in the last resort, upon His judgment, man must live in the right direction — towards God — with the burdens and confusions of his own history. A A A Questions and Answers By A. LEYNES CORCUERA If you hove iny queition on Maionry, write it down on a piece of paper and mail it to "Queilions and Antweri,*' Cabletow, 1440 San Marcelino, Manila. Your anawer QUESTION: IT«.v Hiram Abif a real, or merely a mythical, person? ANSWER: He was a real person, an artisan in metals, who was sent King Hiram of Tyre (flourished about 1000 B.C.) to King Solomon i<> work on the ornamentation of ihe Temple (1 Kings 7:13-15; 2 Chronicles 1.11 22) QUESTION: it'd Hiram Abif die in the manner known to all Master Masons? ANSWER: No; he finished lhe work he was called to do lor King Solomon’s Temple (2 Chronicles 1:11). According lo Flavius Jose pints (A.I). 27 - A.D. 95) "lie lived in lyre long afterwards.” QUESTION: Has the Bible always been a part of the farnitnre of the Lodge? ANSWER: No; it was not un'il 1700 that the (.land Lodge ol England (1717). upon motion ol william Preston (1712-1818), decreed ihat the Bible be made one of the* Great Lights (Voor—his, Facts for Masons, p. 27). QUESTION: What is meant by Ancient Craft Masonry. ANSWER: It is the name given to the three degrees of symbolic, or Blue1 Lodge Masonry — the Enter ed Appientice, lhe Fellow Cralt, •and lhe Master Mason. Sometimes lhe icim is shortened to Craft Ala .sonry. I lie term is most appropriate because it calls attention lo lhe lad that the three degrees do not belong to any particular rite, that they constitute primitive Mi semi y. CUES I ION: Jl’/cy do Masons hon oi I’ylhagoias? ANSWER: Pythagoras (c. 582 c . 507 B.C.), born at Sanios, was a icinarkable and great Greek philosopher. In the course ol his traFebruary 1964 271 . vels over the llien known-world he became a pupil of Zoroaster (650583. B.C.). At Crotona, Italy, he founded a religious brotherhood which borrowed from Oriental mysticism the idea of re-incarnalion of the soul. He taught that lhe essence of all nature can be expressed in numbers, whose mysteries arc found in the Hebrew Kabbala as well as in all occult studies and in Masonry. It is said that the symbolism of the three degrees of the Grecian Mysteries he established beats a close analogy to the symbols of Masonry. It is even claimed that esoteric Masonic doctrines were received from those of Pythagoras. QUESTION: /.» it Hue that the Grand Lodge of the Philippines, even before the unification, had already proved the organization of a Spanish -Speaking Lodge? ANSWER: Yes; Biak-na-Bato Lodge No. 7. Bro. Felipe Tcmpongko, Junior Warden of Bagumbayan Lodge No. 1. was named Master in both the Dispensation and the Chapter. He and Bro. Leo Fischer, Secretary of Bagumbayan Lodge No. 1, translated the ritual into Spanish. This is the ritual which live years after the unification the Spanish-speaking Lodges, formerly under the (frail Lc’igia Regional, were recpt it cd to use. EDITORIAL . (From page MO) Freemasonry is a way of life, a philosophy for living. It deals only with the material matters of earthly existence, prescribing through its tenets and demanding through its* abligations that Freemasons conduct themselves with such brotherly love, morality, and virtue as will ensure their escension to the Grand Lodge above where the Great Architect of the Universe lives and reigns forever. is not the objective of Freemasonry the same as that of religion? How can Freemasonry be at odds with any religion or any religion be at odds with Freemasonry, if all serve the same God and have the same ultimate goal? — R.E.W. A A Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, Creator of the Universe. That he governs it by his Providence. That he ought to be worshipped. That the most acceptable service we render him is doing good to his other children. That the soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this. - BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 272 The Cabletow

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