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PART THREE

The Mark Master's Degree is indeed unique above all other degrees. It is prefaced by a "prologue", a play let, if you will, that is acted out for the benefit of the initiate. It portrays work going on in the quarries of King Solomon's Temple. A young Fellow-craft happens upon a beautiful stone that has already been prepared. He's immediately tempted to present it as his own work. This method of teaching in a degree is incongruous with the usual Masonic teaching process. The manner in which the exemplar is introduced into the Lodge room is not in accordance with usual Masonic custom. The concept of placing the candidate in the position of being an imposter and a cheat is not in keeping with Masonic philosophy as we have encountered it thus far in our journey through Masonic initiation. The point, though, is to commend honesty. The brightest light in this part of the initiation is found in those who were loath to discard the Keystone "OWING TO ITS SINGULAR FORM AND BEAUTY." They are, of course, criticized by the Master Overseer who asks, "what have we to do with singular form and beauty?" But the Junior and Senior Overseer were able to see something he was not. The Master Overseer could only see the "material" and not the "spiritual." He passes only on "square work", that which symbolizes the material. The Junior and Senior Overseers are impressed with the pure beauty of this emblem of spirituality and hesitate to discard it. The subordinate overseers, though supposedly ignorant of its true value, still recognize the beauty of the spiritual. The stone is, of course, finally discarded. If it were not, the allegory couldn't be taken to its logical completion and the lesson couldn't be driven home. This part of the degree reminds us that far too often, the most beautiful thing of life is heaved over in the rubbish by those who have not reached a level where they can recognize its inherent value and put it to its intended use.

...to be continued...

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