The Masonic journey from darkness toward light has its beginning in the giant stride of the Entered Apprentice degree. In the brief span of this first degree in Freemason, the foundations are laid. A full list of the Masonic elements which are presented in this degree, either directly or by implication, is astonishing.

Realizing how much is contained within the freemason Entered Apprentice degree, there is a temptation for the Masonic instructor to attempt too much in reviewing the candidate’s experience. Such an attempt leads to lecturing rather than to discussion and may encourage indoctrination rather than exploration.

The educational process outlined within freemason is designed to present the new Mason with a brief review within the setting of the Entered Apprentice

Entered Apprentice Degree Preparation - Freemason Attitude

In ancient days Corn, Wine, and Oil constituted the wealth of the
people, and were esteemed as the main supports of life. The Psalmist
counts them among the greatest blessings mankind enjoys, and you
may recall that he brings them together in the 104th Psalm where he
speaks of them as "Wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to
make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart."
Freemason - The Wages of an Entered Apprentice

Freemason - What are the wages of an Entered Apprentice Mason

THE THEORY OF THE DEGREE OF ENTERED APPRENTICE MASON.
THE Degree of Entered Apprentice is the initial letter of the Masonic alphabet, the first round in the ladder
of grades, variously numbering three, seven, nine, eleven,
twenty-nine, one hundred and twenty-five, or whatever
figures the fancy of modern ritualists may assume to embrace all the Degrees of Freemasonry. An Entered
Apprentice degree is a beginner, a neophyte. All that is explained to him in the First Degree must be in the sense of laying down a foundation; for he can have no previous information or instruction upon which to base it. Yet the Entered Apprentice, in theory, is already a Mason, even before he enters the Lodge;, that is, he
must be already prepared in heart, for there is nothing
in Masonic science that can do the work of heart-preparation. And the neophyte must have had some exoteric
knowledge of Masonry as a public institution because he
is required to declare that "he has long entertained a
favorable opinion of it."

Freemason - The Entered Apprentice Degree by The Masonic Ladder - THE SYMBOLICAL DEGREES Part 1

To my mind the more of the truth we know, the more we value the legends. Therefore, I try to be a student of the real history of Masonry, that I may love its stories, its myths and its symbols the more. No sheep, the new-cut trail is under my feet and will be, while these old eyes can follow it- ." The Old Tiler's voice trailed off into silence

The Great Secret Of Freemasonry

Heat treating of metals is essential to the production of durable products. These products are heated in a furnace to the proper temperature and then cooled by some sort of quench medium: air, salt, quench fluid, or oil. The use of oil quenches is wide-spread and the quench facilities generally fall into two categories - open and enclosed. In many Open Quench Tank operations, the parts, as they exit the furnace on the furnace conveyor, drop into an oil bath through a chute. A conveyor, submerged in the oil, carries the parts through the oil for the prescribed time A drip pan under the exit conveyor catches the quench oil draining back into the quench tank. A fume collection hood and exhaust duct create a secondary area for concern.

Metallurgy of Steel for Bladesmiths & Others who Heat Treat and Forge Steel By John D. Verhoeven

Metallurgy of Steel for Bladesmiths & Others who Heat Treat and Forge Steel By John D. Verhoeven. Part Two

Metallurgy of Steel for Bladesmiths & Others who Heat Treat and Forge Steel By John D. Verhoeven. Part Three

Heat treating of metals is essential to the production of durable products. These products are heated in a furnace to the proper temperature and then cooled by some sort of quench medium: air, salt, quench fluid, or oil. The use of oil quenches is widespread and the quench facilities generally fall into two categories - open and enclosed. In many Open Quench Tank operations, the parts, as they exit the furnace on the furnace conveyor, drop into an oil bath through a chute. A conveyor, submerged in the oil, carries the parts through the oil for the prescribed time A drip pan under the exit conveyor catches the quench oil draining back into the quench tank. A fume collection hood and exhaust duct create a secondary area for concern.

Metallurgy of Steel for Bladesmiths & Others who Heat Treat and Forge Steel By John D. Verhoeven. Part Four

You desire to LIVE "according to Nature"? Oh, you noble Stoics, what fraud of words! Imagine to yourselves a being like Nature, boundlessly extravagant, boundlessly indifferent, without purpose or consideration, without pity or justice, at once fruitful and barren and uncertain: imagine to yourselves INDIFFERENCE as a power--how COULD you live in accordance with such indifference? To live--is not that just endeavoring to be otherwise than this Nature? Is not living valuing, preferring, being unjust, being limited, endeavoring to be different? And granted that your imperative, "living according to Nature," means actually the same as "living according to life"--how could you do DIFFERENTLY? Why should you make a principle out of what you yourselves are, and must be? In reality, however, it is quite otherwise with you: while you pretend to read with rapture the canon of your law in Nature, you want something quite the contrary, you extraordinary stage-players and self-deluders! In your pride you wish to dictate your morals and ideals to Nature, to Nature herself, and to incorporate them therein; you insist that it shall be Nature "according to the Stoa," and would like everything to be made after your own image, as a vast, eternal glorification and generalism of Stoicism! With all your love for truth, you have forced yourselves so long, so persistently, and with such hypnotic rigidity to see Nature FALSELY, that is to say, Stoically, that you are no longer able to see it otherwise-- and to crown all, some unfathomable superciliousness gives you the Bedlamite hope that BECAUSE you are able to tyrannize over yourselves--Stoicism is self-tyranny--Nature will also allow herself to be tyrannized over: is not the Stoic a PART of Nature? . . . But this is an old and everlasting story: what happened in old times with the Stoics still happens today, as soon as ever a philosophy begins to believe in itself. It always creates the world in its own image; it cannot do otherwise; philosophy is this tyrannical impulse itself, the most spiritual Will to Power, the will to "creation of the world," the will to the causa prima.

Metallurgy of Steel for Bladesmiths & Others who Heat Treat and Forge Steel By John D. Verhoeven

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