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In these rituals,
are met again certain gestures, positions and movements, as well as
words that are, in reality, the sacred words of passage. Another important
element is the "Table Lodge", an iconographic representation where
secrets are summarized for each grade.
Although the iconographic repertoire of Freemasonry has
varied over the centuries, the essential components of each of three fundamental
universal degrees (Apprentice, Fellow and Master) have not undergone major
changes, and there exist no significant differences between the different
presentations of the same Grade.
We see first that the Lodge of Master box is arranged so
that Hiram, lying on the sarcophagus, keep the head facing West and East, the
north stands for in his left.
In Freemasonry, and although the readings have mutated over
time, Hiram represented two aspects of divinity, but this divinity came to be
free of doctrinal or derived definition of deism according to Natural Religion:
the first aspect is linked to the heavenly life that descends to this world
(the world is the man) to build there but also it concerns the god temple
buried in the tomb of the body, and to be raised, both aspects very present in
the third degree.
Master's Word
In modern Masonry, the name first appears in the manuscript called
Dumfries No. 4, 1710, when it qualified for "Master Mason". The
"tomb of Master Hiram 'is perceived in the manuscript identified as Wilkinson, 1727, and the
first description of a raising (resurrection) of Hiram’s body through the
master word in the manuscript of Graham, 1726. In an attempt to lift, one of
the teachers says: "In this bone morrow", "bone / bone marrow in
this."
The work of Samuel Prichard, Masonry dissected, published in
London in 1730, contains the complete legend of Hiram. We find there is also a
description of the "five points of partner" or
"perfection." Since then, in all the rituals of the third degree, the
"resurrection" of Hiram is associated with the master word and the
"five points of perfection".
According to a 1725 manuscript, "The Whole Institutions
of freemasons opened", the word for teacher is Magboe and Boe, which,
according to the ritual, mean: morrow in the bone, "bone / marrow in the bone."
During the eighteenth century, the word for teacher will
take various forms: Mahabon, Moabon as well as a variety of graphics, which
only made the disparity increasing phonetics and semantics. Some authors claim that Mahabon or Moabon and its variants
are an haboneh mah, a Hebrew corruption.
F-H. Delaulnaye a French Freemason early nineteenth century,
reports that Moabon meaning is 'father', as a Freemason becomes, by virtue of
receiving the third degree, the son and successor of Hiram. Moreover, The Vuillaume
Tuileur of claims that comes from the Hebrew Moabon moab, because ab, means
father.
Whatever it is, the word of the teacher is always associated
with putrefaction: the meat separates from the bone, the meat is tainted,
"rotten to the bone" and so on. But we also say: no bone on bone ...
The underlying idea is partly that the spinal / marrow are
alive and, moreover, that the meat is rotten. The confusion that reigns among
the names of the master degree is indeed real. However, if we examine closely the
rituals, and although the elements referring to corruption are associated with
the sacred word of expertise, this does not necessarily mean they are a
translation. At the time when the teacher stands Hiram, saying only: the c ....
is s .... the h ..... There is an association of concepts, not necessarily
translation.
Another word used in masonry teacher, Mac-B .... c, figure
on a 1730 French ritual, and is used in the French or Modern Rite. Also attach
multiple origins and meanings, although some authors consider that it means
nothing at all, in any language. For English Mason Thomas Payne (1737-1809), is
a name of Celtic origin: son (mac) the widow (b ... c). This interpretation
agrees well with his thesis on the origins of Freemasonry and English Druidism.
Although inaccurate it in no way contradicts the other and integrates well in
the context of master degree symbolism.
In the work cited in Prichard, we find the graphics Machbenah and attribute the following
sense: the builder has been killed. An English work published in 1751, "The Màcon Unmasked"
cites the term Mac cy B .... says it means "meat separates from the
bones." Arturo Reghini in 1922 attributed a Hebrew origin and translated it
as œdificantis putrid, "the putrefaction, (maq) of one who builders (Boneh).
The verb also means begetting Benah so that Mac-Benah could
mean "begotten of putrefaction," which would be a clear reference to
the death and resurrection of Hiram. In this sense, the interpretation of Reghini
is revealed acceptable, and integrates seamlessly into the mystery of the third
degree.
Finally, the eighteenth century French documents claim that
the ancient sacred word mastery was J ... h, that has been lost (ie better
replaced by prudence) and that it is incumbent rediscover Masons. According to
G-L. Perau, in his book "The Secret of the Freemasons," published in
1745, the Tetragrammaton was written on the sarcophagus of Hiram because
"such was the old master word" formal statement is also collected for
the preparation of Régulateur du Màcon , in his Third Degree ritual.
Joaquim Villalta, Vª Orden, Gr.·. 9
Miembro del Supremo Conselho do Rito Moderno - Brasil
Miembro del Sublime Consejo del Rito Moderno para el Ecuador
Miembro del Círculo de Estudios del Rito Francés
"Roëttiers de Montaleau"
Miembro de la Academia Internacional de la Vª Orden - UMURM
Miembro de la Logia de Investigación "Los
Modernos" - GLMAE
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