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What are the two pillars of free masonry?

So to get to what these two pillars represent, we need to look at the modern incarnation of free masonry, which started during the age of enlightenment.

And that was a period in the history of Europe

and Western civilization where an intellectual and cultural movement flourished. This started

in the 16th century and bled all the way into the early 18th century. Now, this was characterized

by an emphasis on several things, reasoning, empirical evidence, and a scientific method,

and it also promoted ideas of individual liberty, religious tolerance, progressiveness, natural rights.

And I have been going into these ideas in depth in my series, Rosicrucian American Order,

which Freemasonry is blended in with all of that. And several characters that pop up during

this time are Johannes Kepler, Francis Bacon, which I've gone in detail with, Isaac Newton,

Thomas Hobbs, John Locke, and many others that were a part of all these different secret societies and many of them were Freemasons as well.

Now, it was during this age of enlightenment that several symbols surfaced specifically within the second section of the fellow craft degree, and none were more important

than the pillars of Boaz and Yaqeen. So I want to look at first a biblical analysis of where

Boaz and Yaqeen come from, because this comes from a biblical place. They were two pillars

within the Temple of Jerusalem that King Solomon had built. Now, we're going to start with

1st King 7, 13 through 22. Now, King Solomon sent to bring Huram from Tyre. He was the son of a widow

from the tribe of Neftali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a craftsman in bronze. Huram had great

skill, understanding, and knowledge for every

kind of bronze work, so he came to King Solomon and carried out all of his work. He cast two pillars

of bronze, each 18 cubits high and 12 cubits and circumference. He also made two capitals of cast

bronze to set on top of the pillars, each capital five cubits high. For the capitals on top of the pillars each capital five cubits high.

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