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We Specialize in Buying and Selling NGC / PCGS Certified U.S., Ancient, World and Estate Coins. Welcome to Old West Gold Coins! We have been specializing in California, Alaska and Territorial gold for over 40 years.MORE and Beyond Self from. This is the. Real Initiation: At- One- Ment. The Blue Lodge. symbolizes this Life, from the Cradle to the Grave. From our entrance upon the. Stage of Life's great Drama, 'till its close, when . The. Chapter comes next in the Masonic System- -capped with the Royal. Arch- -formerly, and we might say correctly, termed the HOLY ROYAL ARCH, for. The Past Master's degree has. Masonic System- -being merely a complimentary degree- - a sort. Act to qualify the Candidate for the Royal Arch degree. The Mark. and Most Excellent Master's degrees are amplifications of the Work of the Blue. Lodge and have no part in the consecutive work leading up to the Royal Arch in. Mackey and other teachers. Royal Arch degree is the symbolic representation of the state. Life's vanities and follies have passed away; even the first. Temple, erected with such care through Life, has succumbed, and decay and. Masonry is a search for. Light- -More and MORE LIGHT as we ascend the rounds of the Ladder- -and Masonic. Light is TRUTH ETERNAL. They had never been explained in. Lodge and NEVER WILL BE. However, they are there for all who will not only. It must be personal, self sacrificing. Treasures of Masonry that are never more than hinted at in the Lodge and. This is one of the things. Thus, if we do not attain the FULLNESS of Light, it will be our own. The City of Jerusalem and. Temple in the Royal Arch symbolize our Spiritual Natures- -Pure and. Innocent- -fresh from the hand of our Father in Heaven. By contact with the World it. Sin- -crumbles under the assaults of the enemy, and we. Chaldeans. After a period of repentance. Babylon. - -where we have been enchained by the Powers of Sin - -to start life afresh. Our journey across the. Desert, with its trials and tribulations, represents our first efforts to. Lost Character, and once more become good and true, and pure. God and Man, i. e.- - to rebuild the Temple which we have once destroyed. We struggle on- -each day is. Starry decked Canopy of Heaven, finds us nearer our. Goal- -nearer HOME. Finally, we reach the spot. There, standing on the. Mount of Olives, we see - -NOT the prosperous, well regulated City that we. Towers, marble Palaces. Temple erected to the Most High God, but a mass of. At first, we are. God of our Fathers for strength- -and then take up in real earnest. Work in Life- - willing to make any sacrifice to win, and offer unto Him. It is a hard task, this digging among the. Sin and Vice have fastened upon our. Souls- -but we bravely press on and are finally rewarded by finding the. Keystone of an Arch. It is the Keystone of Faith in the Arch of God's Promises. Loyal and Devoted Service. We take it up and offer it to the. Master, who encourages us, but tells us there is still more work for us to do. We return to the scene of our. Arch- -and, searching amid the accumulated. Him who is. directing the Work. They prove to be the Squares of Virtue, Morality and. Brotherly Love. We are put to a further test. Arch in search of further treasures. Our answer you well remember- -and we. Word - - the symbol of that Divine Love and Truth which. Then it is that we hear those. Some never get through the Realm of. Blackness; others struggle onward and upward- -gradually getting higher and. Spheres of Color - -all struggling to attain the Light which is. Spiritual sight is prepared to. TO REVIEW- -Thus, we find the. Blue Lodge furnishes Rules and Precepts to be followed in this life; and. Death and a Resurrection to a Glorious. Immortality- -a life beyond the Grave. Here the Royal Arch follows and carries. St. XV- 4. 4. The Spiritual Body, with the. Soul (its Guide) left the Physical Body at the close of the Master Mason's. Aided by the Wings of. Faith in God's Promises and guided by the Star of Hope, it finally enters the. Veils of Light- -the Red. Here, freed from the Bonds of Sin. Spheres. with that . This is symbolized by. Yellow in the list of Colors. We kneel. and pour forth a prayer of thanksgiving to the God of our Fathers. Presently a single ray of RED. Color of ZEAL and enthusiasm) comes down the spheres to us with the. RED, mingling with the Blue in its. Heartsease (Indigo Purple) with all its blessed. Glories yet to come. Still pressing on, we climb. Mount of Olives; and there stand in the VIOLET! All about us are the. Angels of Purity and Meekness. There are blessed recollections passing to and. Angels' Wings- -and the Guide says . Oliver's philosophy of Masonry deals rather with Masonry in its. In order to understand this we need. Krause was by profession a philosopher and that the main work. Oliver was a clergyman. As in Preston's case, Oliver's general. He flowed with the philosophical. He did not turn it into new channels or affect its course. Krause. Hence here, as with Preston, we may conveniently consider. Oliver's philosophy of Masonry under three heads: 1. George Oliver was. Pepplewick in the county of Nottingham, November 5, 1. His father. was a clergyman of the established church and his mother was the daughter of a. Hence he had the advantage of a bringing up under. He was educated at Nottingham and made. Caistor in Lincolnshire. Six years later he was made head master of. King Edward's grammar school at Great Grimsby. In 1. 81. 3 he took orders but. In 1. 81. 5 he was given a living by his bishop as the result. Trinity College, Cambridge, as a so- called ten- year man. That is he. was given ten years in which to earn his degree. Thus in 1. 83. 6 he was able to. In the meantime he was successively. Wolverhampton and prebendary of the collegiate church. In 1. 84. 6 the lord. He died in 1. 86. Beginning in 1. 81. Oliver was. a diligent student of and a prolific writer upon antiquities, particularly. It is worth while to give a list of the more important of. Masonic. writings it will afford some idea of his diligence and activity. I give only. those which have been considered the more important. History and Antiquities of. Collegiate Church of Beverley. History and Antiquities of the. Collegiate Church of Wolverhampton. History of the Conventual Church of. Grimsby. Monumental Antiquities of Grimsby. History of the Guild of the. Holy Trinity, Sleaford. Druidical Remains near Lincoln. Guide to the. Druidical Temple at Nottingham 8. Remains of the Ancient Britons between. Lincoln and Sleaford. To these must be added a. And be it remembered the author was, while most of these were. Lincoln and a. steward of the clerical fund for his diocese. This sounds like one man's work. To it, however, we have to add a Masonic literary. Oliver was made a Mason at. This statement, startling to the modern Masonic ear. As Masonic usage then stood a . The. privileges of a lewis have never been defined clearly. He was supposed to have. Also in England. and France he was supposed to have the right to be initiated at an earlier. The constitutions are silent on this point but the. It is hard to say how far this usage has ever obtained in America. But there is evidence that it obtained in the. George Washington who was. At any rate Oliver became a Mason in this way. St. Peters Lodge at. Peterborough in 1. Oliver's father was a zealous. Mason and a ritualist of the literal school, that is of the. Masonry. Accordingly Oliver was thoroughly trained on this side- -which indeed. Masonic advancement but, I suspect, to Masonic. Craft was rapid. In 1. Oliver established a. Grimsby where he was the master of the grammar school and chiefly by. He was master of that. Thence successively he became Provincial Grand Steward. Grand Chaplain (1. Deputy Grand Master of Lincolnshire (1. It should be remembered that the. Provincial Grand Master was reserved in England for the nobility. It. is interesting to know in passing that the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts gave. Past Deputy Grand Master. The list of Oliver's Masonic. He is the most prolific of Masonic authors and on the. He began by publishing a number of Masonic. Masonry to which, as it were, he had been bred he turned his. Craft. His first historical work is. The Star in the East, his. Masonry to. religion. Signs and Symbols, an. Masonic symbols then. History of Initiation. Oliver sought to trace. Masonic initiation and ancient systems of initiation to a common origin; a. The Theocratic Philosophy. Masonry, a further development of his ideas as to the relation of Masonry. A History of Free Masonry. Preston's Illustrations of. Masonry which he had edited in 1. Historical Landmarks and. Other Evidences of Masonry Explained, by far his greatest work, a monument of. Revelations of a Square, a. Masonic fiction. 9. The Golden Remains of the. Early Masonic Writers, an elaborate compilation in five volumes. The Symbol of Glory, his. Masonry. 1. 1. A Mirror for the. Johannite Masons, in which he discusses the dedication of lodges and the two. Sts. The Origin and Insignia. Royal Arch Degree. A Dictionary of Symbolic. Masonry, the first of a long line of such dictionaries. Institutes of Masonic. Jurisprudence. He also published a . Likewise he was a constant contributor to English and even. American Masonic periodicals. Probably no one not by. Unhappily Oliver's views of. Masonic law were not in accord with those which prevailed in England in 1. Crucefix, one of the most distinguished. English Masons, was suspended by the Grand Lodge and. Masonic activity Oliver also incurred the displeasure of the. Provincial Deputy Grand Master, to. Crucefix in which a large. Masons joined. This led to his losing his office by the. Provincial Grand Master and to his withdrawing from active. Craft. But English Masons soon came to see the soundness. Oliver's views as to the independence which Masonry must allow to the. Masonic law. Accordingly. Masons in the kingdom joined in subscribing. Oliver in recognition of his great services to.
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