In one of the last workshop taken in our beloved Lodge I had the opportunity to articulate a modest reflection on The Tracing Boarding Table of the First Degree. I will tell you that I carry out this tracing board table every week, together with my brethren from the deposit to the temple. This time, the Junior Warden spoke a discourse allusive to the topic with the nice addition of distributing copies of his speech. It toured the temple structure (Lodge), the meaning of the symbols, adorning jewelry and furniture that are in the Temple and the symbolic connection with the G:. A:. D:. U:.
"With your permission Worshipful Master, I will speak about 3 themes: I) If I could extract the most important part, the noumenon of the brilliant presentation of the Junior Warden, I will stop at something that captures and captivates my mind wherever I go. The connection with the G:. A:. D:. U:. : The Jacob's ladder, which means that after a sincere conversion is possible to climb and be part of the universal consciousness, a higher space inhabited by a new type of humans beings. If the fate would grant me the pleasure of advising the training of a new entered apprentice during their first steps in this or any other Lodge, I would suggest him to watch closely the Jacob’s Ladder of the Tracing Board of the First Grade without requiring any immediate response at all. With the assurance that the learner would find the correct answer, I will hope -some years later- that when he will counsel to other entered apprentice he will guide him the same way and then again and again, ad infinitum with other entered apprentices.
"II) Jacob's Ladder is a symbol that is not magic or fictional. It's a visual stimulus proposed to every mason to be continually better. Symbols like Jacob's ladder and others who wield the Lodges constitute an ancestral alternative communication system. One beholds and apprehends the meaning at a single glance. It is a synthetic and effective communication media, which goes straight to the heart, the deepest part of our structure. The Chinese say that a picture is worth a thousand words. Today, I'm almost convinced that oral or written language does not convey everything we want. Therefore, in certain limit situations, after talking and talking we finally kill ourselves. Saviant (s) the fremasons who adopted symbols and signs to communicate properly through centuries".
"III) Finally Worshipful Master, if an entered apprentice urge me to provide him counseling about ethics and morality, to facilitate their climb up the ladder of Jacob, I will whisper in their ears: i) To follow faithfully what Free-masonry preaches and makes every day: fraternity , charity, temperance, tolerance, beauty, strength, justice, wisdom, harmonic silence, love to our fellows, love to the whole mankind and ii) that he must scrutinize the Volume of Sacred Law, reading and rereading it (more times the better). If I were asked why?...gathering all forces of my humanity I would add this support: a) the Volume of Sacred Law recounts events over 3000 years ago and yet still and forever will continue fresh and young and b) that unlike modern books on ethics and morals that speak only of the good, the Volume of Sacred Law spoke of crimes-sacrifice lives for others, incest-respect for others, war-peace-search, showing life as it is, urging you to look for yourself and find the truth, according to your heart and your level of spiritual evolution.
"With your permission Worshipful Master, I will speak about 3 themes: I) If I could extract the most important part, the noumenon of the brilliant presentation of the Junior Warden, I will stop at something that captures and captivates my mind wherever I go. The connection with the G:. A:. D:. U:. : The Jacob's ladder, which means that after a sincere conversion is possible to climb and be part of the universal consciousness, a higher space inhabited by a new type of humans beings. If the fate would grant me the pleasure of advising the training of a new entered apprentice during their first steps in this or any other Lodge, I would suggest him to watch closely the Jacob’s Ladder of the Tracing Board of the First Grade without requiring any immediate response at all. With the assurance that the learner would find the correct answer, I will hope -some years later- that when he will counsel to other entered apprentice he will guide him the same way and then again and again, ad infinitum with other entered apprentices.
"II) Jacob's Ladder is a symbol that is not magic or fictional. It's a visual stimulus proposed to every mason to be continually better. Symbols like Jacob's ladder and others who wield the Lodges constitute an ancestral alternative communication system. One beholds and apprehends the meaning at a single glance. It is a synthetic and effective communication media, which goes straight to the heart, the deepest part of our structure. The Chinese say that a picture is worth a thousand words. Today, I'm almost convinced that oral or written language does not convey everything we want. Therefore, in certain limit situations, after talking and talking we finally kill ourselves. Saviant (s) the fremasons who adopted symbols and signs to communicate properly through centuries".
"III) Finally Worshipful Master, if an entered apprentice urge me to provide him counseling about ethics and morality, to facilitate their climb up the ladder of Jacob, I will whisper in their ears: i) To follow faithfully what Free-masonry preaches and makes every day: fraternity , charity, temperance, tolerance, beauty, strength, justice, wisdom, harmonic silence, love to our fellows, love to the whole mankind and ii) that he must scrutinize the Volume of Sacred Law, reading and rereading it (more times the better). If I were asked why?...gathering all forces of my humanity I would add this support: a) the Volume of Sacred Law recounts events over 3000 years ago and yet still and forever will continue fresh and young and b) that unlike modern books on ethics and morals that speak only of the good, the Volume of Sacred Law spoke of crimes-sacrifice lives for others, incest-respect for others, war-peace-search, showing life as it is, urging you to look for yourself and find the truth, according to your heart and your level of spiritual evolution.
LA PLANCHA DE TRAZAR
En una de las últimas tenidas realizadas en nuestra querida Logia tuve la oportunidad de articular una modesta reflexión en torno a “La tabla de trazar del Primer grado”. Os contaré que contemplo esta Tabla de Trazar, cada semana, en tanto de conjunto con mis hermanos la llevo desde el depósito hasta el templo. En esta oportunidad el Segundo Vigilante disertó un compacto alusivo al tema, con el simpático agregado de distribuir fotocopias de su ponencia. En ella, recorrió la estructura del templo (Logia), el significado de los simbolos que la embellecen, las joyas y muebles que la componen y la conexión simbólica con el G:.A:.D:.U:.
“Con su venia Venerable Maestro, reflexionaré alrededor de 3 temas :I) Si pudiese extraer la parte mas importante, el noumeno de la brillante disertación del Hermano Vigilante, me detendria en algo que apresa y cautiva mi mente dondequiera que voy. La conexión con el G:.A:.D:.U:., mediante la escalera de Jacob, en la que mediante una conversión sincera es posible ascender y ser parte de la conciencia universal, un espacio superior donde habita un nuevo tipo de seres humanos. Si el destino me concediera la dicha de aconsejar a un aprendiz, durante sus primeros pasos en esta u otra Logia, le sugeriría que observe detenidamente la Plancha de Trazar del Primer Grado sin exigirle en absoluto alguna respuesta inmediata. Con la seguridad de que el aprendiz encontraría la respuesta correcta, abrigaría la esperanza -años mas tarde- que cuando le tocase a él orientar a otro aprendiz haría lo mismo que yo y asi, una y otra vez, ad infinitum”.
”II) La escalera de Jacob, es un símbolo que no es mágico ni ficcional. Es un estimulo visual propuesto a todo masón para superarse continuamente. Simbolos como la escalera de Jacob y otros que pergeñan las Logias representan un sistema de comunicación alterno ancestral. Uno contempla y aprehende el significado de un solo golpe de vista. Es una comunicación sintética y eficáz, que va directo al corazón, a lo mas hondo de nuestra estructura. Los chinos dicen que una figura vale mas que mil palabras. Hoy, estoy casi convencido que el lenguaje oral o escrito no trasmite todo lo que queremos. Por eso en ciertas situaciones limite, después de conversar y conversar continuamos agrediéndonos. Sabio (s) los masones que adoptaron simbolos y señas para comunicarse adecuadamente a través de los siglos”.
“III) Para terminar Venerable Maestro, si un aprendiz me urgiera a proporcionarle consejeria ético-moral, para facilitar su ascenso por la escalera de Jacob, susurraría en sus oídos : i) Que siga fielmente todo lo que la masoneria predica y hace :fraternidad, beneficiencia, templanza, tolerancia, belleza, fuerza, justicia, sabiduría, silencio armónico, amor a nuestros semejantes, a la humanidad toda y ii) que después escrute el Volumen de la Ley Sagrada leyéndola y releyéndola…cuantas mas veces mejor. Si me preguntase porque, juntando todas las fuerzas de mi humanidad añadiría este soporte : a) el Volumen de la Ley Sagrada relata hechos ocurrido hace mas de 3000 años y que sin embargo continúan y continuaran siendo actuales por siempre y b) que a diferencia de modernos libros de ética y moral que hablan solo de lo bueno, el Volumen de la Ley Sagrada habla de crímenes-sacrificios de vidas por otros, incesto-respeto al prójimo, guerras-busqueda de paz, mostrandote la vida tal cual es, instandote a que tu mismo busques y encuentres la verdad, según tu corazón y tu grado de evolución espiritual”.
.+Photo+Author.jpg)
No hay comentarios:
Publicar un comentario