The Third Degree, That’s It? Finally, we made our lives a blank slate with the first degree, refined our lives with years of study to improve all aspects of our lives with the second degree. Now we obtain the last and highest degree. What do we learn? In some crafts the working tools are the skiret, pencil, and compass. In Kentucky, we learn the working tool of a Master Mason is a trowel. The simple trowel. Used to spread cement to bind stones together. Symbolically it is to spread brotherly love and affection. The principal of Masonry has always been to perfect the individual and to guide mankind toward a better, harmonious development. In essence, we took a stone and made it into a rough ashler with the gavel and gauge, then in second degree made it into a perfect ashler with the plumb, square and level. Now in the third, we find out where to place the stone for the builders use and set the stone in place. Now that we have l...
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