Need Help! What Is The Meaning of This Picture?

reply to post by MWStargazer

If it hasn't already been said, it's a modern interpretation of a first degree, Entered Apprentice Tracing Board. Pretty imaginative and cool, I wonder if any Lodgea are using them. Those I have sat in used the older style.

Google "Mark Passio" - he will explain it extremely well for you!

Originally posted by no1smootha
reply to post by MWStargazer

 

If it hasn't already been said, it's a modern interpretation of a first degree, Entered Apprentice Tracing Board. Pretty imaginative and cool, I wonder if any Lodgea are using them. Those I have sat in used the older style.

edit on 21-6-2012 by no1smootha because: (no reason given)

Smootha is correct. The symbolism pertains to the first degree of the York Rite, not the 15th degree of the Scottish Rite.

Whatever the symbolism means, you don't have to be a mason to undergo the spiritual transformation that the symbols point to. All the tools you need are already inside you, waiting for you to grasp. You don't need to deciper all the symbols in order to do that. You can let your inner Muse give you your own set of symbols.

Originally posted by BlueMule
Whatever the symbolism means, you don't have to be a mason to undergo the spiritual transformation that the symbols point to. All the tools you need are already inside you, waiting for you to grasp. You don't need to deciper all the symbols in order to do that. You can let your inner Muse give you your own set of symbols.

Indeed. Masonry is simply one way to achieve this, and because it is a more formal system, it can be easier for some to use those methods than to try to do is on their own.

Originally posted by MWStargazer
What do you know about the picture? Can you explain how Pinocchio is off in his explanation?

Here is a better explanation. (click through to all 4 parts, if you're really interested.)

reply to post by MWStargazer

Does anyone know the significance of this picture?

Yes, and it cant happen soon enough!