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February 1999
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A Look at the Master Mason
continued from front page
You see this word is so simple that
even a fool can not err in it. It’s very
simple. Master masons when you
were received on that lovely night,
both points of the compasses were
given to you and they told you that
the heart and vitals were between the
breast and consequently, in pre
masonry the most vital tenants were
contained, symbolizing the three vital
tenants of friendship, morality and
brotherly love. You didn’t come into
Church on your own. Somebody
invited you, somebody was talking
about the service, somebody was talk
ing about the sermon, somebody was
talking about the singing and you
said “I’ll believe I’ll go see what’s to
it”. Then you get in here and you get
it firsthand and you see whether you
know it or not. Those of you that
don’t belong to the mason family,
when you look at the shape of the
Church you also look at the shape of
the lodge. You see - both are built on
the pattern of the tabernacle in the
wilderness when Moses and Aaron
went before God and that pattern did
not come out of the air, God had
already created that pattern. He says
I’m going to give you a stomach where
all food will go and told the church
I’m going to give you a vestibule
where all people come in. Then he
says I’m going to give you a chest
where there is a heart that pumps
blood throughout the body. In the
Church they call it a sanctuary and
then I’m going to give you a Holy of
Holies and I don’t want you coming in
there until I send for you. They call
that the pulpit area. He said then I’m
going to give you the three attributes
of myself and I want three principle
officers in the lodge and then I want
three principle chairs in the pulpit.
Yall don’t hear me. I’m going to get
to the text in a minute he said
behind the worshipful master in the
east I don’t want a door. But there is
a door; it’s called a the cross. Now the
cross is a peculiar symbol. You see,
Hitler, during World War II, and
prior to that war he wanted to ingra
tiate himself with the masons of
Germany so he adopted the swastika
as one of his main emblems. What he
didn't know, was a sign or a symbol
ain’t nothing like the real thing.
While he was trying to ingratiate
himself with the masons he lost the
meaning of the swastika. You see,
the swastika is made like this cross in
a different arrangement. They repre
sent four squares that represent four
virtues. You remember when the
woman touched Jesus and he said,
“virtue has gone out of me”. You see,
Jesus walked upright by the plum, he
traveled on the left and he parted on
the square, but in between as he
approached his 33rd birthday he
thought about, I imagine in my own
mind, man cannot be like coffee, you
pour water on it and instantly it is
ready to drink. It’s a lifelong process.
So by the inspiration of God the
Masonic degrees were given from 1
through 31. Now one is a symbol of
God. There was a cry that said “Hear
O Ye Israel, the Lord God , He is One.
And then the Arab, he hollows “God
is One” and then when he got ready
for his holy city, he named it
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Jerusalem. Salem means peace. The
Jews say Siloam, the Arabs say
Salaam. We say Salem as in
Winston-Salem. We are all looking
for that New Jerusalem to come down
from heaven lead by a resurrected
and ascended Christ. That’s what
we’re looking for. So you see master
masons you wear an apron not
because you are of a feminine nature,
but you’re only
following the old
ways. When
Adam and Eve
came into the
knowledge of
good and evil
they made
aprons of fig
leaves. They
didn’t cover their
eyes; they didn’t
cover their ears.
They didn’t cover
their breast, but
they covered the
fountain of life. You see man is trying
to clone people right now. He started
out with a sheep and then had to con
fess that it was a lie. Said that that
sheep did not actual come from the
other sheep through cloning. Then a
few days ago we read where Thomas
Jefferson’s DNA was read. You know
I don’t know of any white man named
Jefferson today. Somebody said do it
to George Washington. I don’t want
to be digging up dead folks. It’s going
to be embarrassing to some, because I
know how my daddy felt when my
brother was born, red headed, freck
led face and look at me. I got one
freckle and it’s all over. So master
masons wore an apron of shame and
then as God started revealing himself
to his people, he wanted a spokesman
to come before him. So he told Moses
to outfit his brother Aaron and the
last thing I want you to put on him
royal ark masons, is an eprod which
is a girdle about his loins. While
Adams and Eve whore aprons of
shame now Aaron is wearing an
apron of sacrifice. And then as the
Bible goes on
and gets into
the New
Testament
we read
about a man
name John
coming out of
the wilder
ness. And
you shriners,
he wasn’t rid
ing a camel,
he was wear
ing one. Said
that his cloth
ing was camel hair with a leather gir
dle about his loins and that was an
apron of repentance. When those old
saints hanging around there (false
saints I call them) said they didn’t
need to repent or be baptized because
Abraham was their father. Too often
we want to take credit from our
mama, grand mama, granddaddy or
daddy, but one thing about
Christianity, it’s like a number three
'tub, every tub has got to sit on it’s
own bottom. Now we skip over to
John 13, where Jesus himself took on
the mantle of a mason to let us know
what we are suppose to do as Grand
Masters, Deputy Grand Masters,
continued on page 22
Rev. Samuel J. Cornelius
and Rev. Howard L. Woods
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