To the ordinary man Geometry means nothing more than the branch of mathematics associated with the problems of Euclid, a subject having no relation to Masonic ceremonial and ideals. There is however a more ancient description of the term.
Geometry was one of the ‘seven noble arts and sciences’ of ancient philosophy. It means literally the science of earth-measurement. But the ‘earth’ of the ancients did not mean, as it does to us, this physical planet.
It meant the primordial substance, or undifferentiated soul-stuff out of which we human beings have been created, the ‘mother-earth’ from which we have all sprung and to which we must all undoubtedly return.
Man was made, the Scriptures teach, out of the dust of the ground, and it is that ground, that earth or fundamental substance of his being, which requires to be ‘measured’ in the sense of investigating and understanding its nature and properties.
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Geometry was one of the ‘seven noble arts and sciences’ of ancient philosophy. It means literally the science of earth-measurement. But the ‘earth’ of the ancients did not mean, as it does to us, this physical planet.
It meant the primordial substance, or undifferentiated soul-stuff out of which we human beings have been created, the ‘mother-earth’ from which we have all sprung and to which we must all undoubtedly return.
Man was made, the Scriptures teach, out of the dust of the ground, and it is that ground, that earth or fundamental substance of his being, which requires to be ‘measured’ in the sense of investigating and understanding its nature and properties.
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