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Something to Think About
From:
Steven
G. Tiner M\
E \
Grand High
Priest of
Arkansas
Why the NORTHEAST Corner?
In the Northeast
Corner the initiate stands midway between the North, the place of
darkness, and the East, the place of Light, whence healing,
revealing rays fall upon the life of man. Such is his position,
symbolically, and rightly so. He is an Entered Apprentice, a
beginner in the Masonic Art, neither in the Dark nor in the
Light. He has come out of the Darkness, his face set toward the
Light, and his quest is for more Light, with yet much light to
dawn upon him. What is life for? To live, of course; and only by
living it do we learn what it is for, much less how live it. It
is ever an adventure, a new adventure for each man, despite the
millions that have lived before us, since, as Keats said about
poets, "We Never Really Understand Fine Things Until We Have
Gone The Same Steps As The Author." Only by living can we
learn what life is, verifying the wisdom of ages alike by our
virtues and our vices.
The initiate stands
Erect in the Northeast Corner, upright and ready to receive his
working tools, a son of the Light, himself a living stone to be
polished. What is more wonderful, what more beautiful, than Youth
standing erect before God - not cringing, not groveling - seeking
the Light by which to make its way through the dim country of
this world to the City that hath foundations! Truly, our Masonry
is the organized poetry of faith!
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Masonic
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FROM
THE HIGH PRIEST