Month: September 2012
The Rough Ashlar, on the Mosaic Pavement, next to the Tracing Board.
The Rough Ashlar represents a Man as he enters Freemasonry, rough and unshaped. Through application of the Craft and virtue he will become smooth and perfect in proportion in terms of his mind, morality and relationship to the Ultimate.
When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. “This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar” she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. ‘My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.’ It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions?
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My mind has flipped for the better.
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