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Symbol namn : | Rough ashlar |
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| Symbol type : | Freemason | |
Rough Ashlar is a symbol of a person to be initiated into a secret society such as Freemasonry. Symbolizes a person who, in the eyes of the secret society, has the potential to become something good, a good brother. A person who is to be reborn from the lie to the truth according to the beliefs of the society. He must be a man who shows good prospects of being made a good Mason.
Rough Ashlar according to Freemasonry
The rough ash wasn't a stone just picked up somewhere. It was a stone that has been selected. Some work was done on it. It was apparently a good stone. It was a stone that showed good prospects of being made into a Perfect Ashlar. Had it not been a good stone, it would never have been hewn from the quarry.
Stone means father and son in Hebrew. Therefore, we can see the rough core as the son, or the immature man who is still in potential, while the perfect ashlar can be seen as the adult individual who has reached his full growth.
After initiation, the candidate is placed, like a building stone, in the traditional position of cornerstone placement by Operative Masons-the North-East corner of a cube. This is symbolic of Masonic "birth" and has a further allusion to their relative exposure to Masonic light: partly in the light of the East, partly in the darkness of the North, but at this stage still mostly in the dark.
The candidate who has come from the preparation room, the Chamber of Reflection, stunned and in the dark after being told that the spirit of God moved upon the water, is likened to a baby coming out of the dark womb once the water has come. of the mother is broken. In the northeast there is still some darkness from the north, but also some light is now coming from the east. Of course, this is all related to the way the compasses are placed with the square of the Volume of the Sacred Lore in the first degree.