The Fellow Craft's Friend
By Kim March
SKU: 9780853186342-
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The Fellow Craft’s Friend
The Fellow Craft’s Friendis an easy to read practical exploration of Freemasonry's Second Degree. With over 110 images and illustrations, it travels at pace through time from the construction of King Solomon's Temple, into medieval England and on to the dawning of Speculative Freemasonry. ThisFast Masonic Educationbook will help Fellow Craft Freemason’s to remain focussed and engaged.
The Fellow Craft’s Friend- key features:
·Answers 7 questions about the Second Degree building upon the 25 foundation questions in The New Mason’s Friend.
·Demystifies the Ceremony of Passing explaining why this was the only, and therefore most important, ceremony in a medieval guild setting. Also answers the question about our present day Ceremony’s apparent brevity.
·Glossary explaining First and Second Degree archaic ritual terminology (Emulation).
·Offers a detailed exploration of King Solomon’s Temple [KST] with biblically correct colour images of its interior including the Sanctum Santorum. Did KST even exist? The latest evidence is summarised and illustrated with CGI components.
·Examines medieval higher education with an explanation and examples of the Seven Liberal Arts and Sciences.
·An exploration of the wider English Guilds system which formed the medieval equivalent of our present day clubs, societies and associations.
·Traces and shares the origins of the terms Brotherly Love, Relief and Truth.
·Explains the role of medieval Mystery Plays and the involvement of stonemason’s guilds.
·Sets out the questions and responses leading to the Ceremony of Raising (Emulation) in the 5-Minute Ritualist memory friendly format.
CONTENTS:
Part 1 7 Questions about the Second Degree:Expanding our Masonic knowledge
Part 2 The Ceremony of Passing Explored:Making sense of our Ceremonyexperience
Part 3 King Solomons Temple Explored:Freemasonry’s central metaphor examined
Part 4 English Gilds/Guilds:Rise and decline Fast History
Part 5 The Seven Liberal Arts and Sciences:Higher education in the medieval period
Part 6 First & Second Degree Glossary:Cutting through all the archaic language
Part 7 Mastering Masonic Ritual:Easy to follow Ritual memorisation system
This book will help keep Fellow Craft’s focussed and engaged whilst they await their Ceremony of Raising. It also helps Brethren make a continuing daily advancement of Masonic knowledge.
Over 130 images, 20+ in full colour, helping to bring this easy to read, 192 page book to life – all for just £12.00.
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THE AUTHORKim MarchRead More
Kim March was born in Hastings, East Sussex in 1955 and was brought up in the hurly-burly of a large, cusp of town and countryside, council estate. He attended Hastings Grammar School for Boys leaving at the age of 16 to join the Metropolitan Police Cadets. Shortly before his 22nd birthday he left the police service to take his first print media job. This change revealed an innate entrepreneurial drive, providing the impetus for a successful career in educational consumer publishing and allied marketing services. Largely through hands on experience, he rapidly acquired all the essential skills to create a media company employing his own concepts.
He married wife Sue, in 1979 who continues to listen to his ideas and generally put up with him!
He is a self-confessed creative thinker and has been blessed to bring several of his educational publishing concepts into fruitful, award winning reality. He has worked with a wide range of domestic and international clients and has spoken at major marketing conferences. Having sold his business interests in 1999, he and Sue relocated from Oxfordshire to the Shropshire Hills. As a keen hill walker, he gave 7 years service to a struggling childrens outdoors adventure charity. In 2012 both he and the charity won two social entrepreneur awards for the creation and successful delivery of a recovery business plan. He has also worked as a local business consultant.
Kim was Initiated into The Longmynd Lodge No 4877 in 2001; joining the Salopian Lodge of Charity No 117, in 2006 serving as Master in 2013. Challenging health circumstances resulted in a complete break from Freemasonry in 2016 with the ensuing recuperation period affording him the opportunity of refining, writing and designing the 5-Minute Ritualist. He is presently a member of Powis Lodge No 7355, a Lodge he has visited on numerous occasions on foot, walking the 23 miles from home - often in the good company of Shropshire Masons on a fundraising mission. He plans to continue doing so!
Now retired, he and Sue have taken to also exploring the great outdoors further afield, including recent trips to the Ecuadorian Andes, Galapagos Islands, Costa Rica and Namibia. He is currently working on other publishing projects.
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