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The 24-inch gauge teaches us so to measure and divide our time that just proportion of it may be given to the service of God and a distressed worthy brother, to our usual vocations, and to refreshment and sleep. Ruling our lives by a punctual…

Used to symbolically spread the cement of brotherly love and affection.

The three tapers represent the three lights of masonry.

The Holy Bible (or any religious text) is placed in the center of the lodge on the altar. It is a a guide for masons to have questions answered if they cannot find them in the world.

Freemasonry is not a religious fraternity but rather a…

The common gavel we use, symbolically, to break off the corners of our rough earthly natures.

Where the By-Laws of the lodge regulate the lodge, the Book of Constitutions are rules of the Grand Lodge and thus are the overarching rules.

Ex. Each State has a constitution (By-laws) but the United States constitution (Book of Constitutions)…

As the guard for the lodge, he is given the sword to fend off any cowens or eavesdroppers to the lodge. He is also charged with checking the credentials to to dismiss those who do not have the valid permissions to enter the lodge.

The Square teaches masons to square their actions by the square of virtue.

It is an instrument made use of by operative Masons to square their work. But as Free and Accepted Masons, we are taught to make use of it for the more noble and glorious purples of squaring our action by the square of virtue.

The Ashlar reprents a Mason going through his journey as a Mason. As a new Mason they are rough, the hope is once a Mason answers the call of the Great Architect of the Universe he will be the perfect.