Masonic Educational Quiz #7A
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PROVIDED BY THE MASONIC EDUCATION COMMITTEE OF YOUR GRAND LODGE.
This quiz should be given to the Education Committee Chairman for your lodge.
This word list may be used as a lodge educational program by simply giving the word and let participants give a definition of the word. Continue until all the different meanings of the word have been brought out.
ALTAR: A raised structure for the purpose of offering sacrifices to God or a structure to assist in an act of worship. At the altar, a candidate experiences the most profound experience of his initiation.
SYLLABLE: A word or part of a word pronounced with a single sounding of voice. Technically, we do not syllable a word we syllabize it.
TEMPORAL: Concerning with life on earth rather than life after death; relating to secular or worldly matters. (Earthly, fleeting, temporary, transitory.)
ZOROASTER: Who was Zoroaster? An ancient Persian Prophet. He founded Zoroastrianism which was the national religion of Persia and influential throughout the Middle East prior to the rise of the Islam religion. He is mentioned in the lecture on Charity.
ENJOIN: To impose as a rule, order or duty. To command or urge authoritatively. “We enjoin upon you … In law, it means to forbid or restraint.
ADJOURN: To suspend or defer a meeting with intentions to later resume. A motion to adjourn is inappropriate in a Masonic Lodge. The Master alone decides when a lodge will close.
ASHLAR: A building stone. A rough ashler is an unsquared stone. A perfect ashlar is one prepared and ready for use.
CORNUCOPIA: It is an emblem of plenty, sometimes called the Horn of Plenty and the emblem of a steward in the Masonic Lodge.
DISPENSATION: Authority is given by the Grand Master to do that which is not normally allowed. For example, A dispensation to hold an election other than on the date specified in the By-Laws. Temporary permission is given to a new lodge to operate prior to actually being chartered. In earlier days it was known as a deputation.
CHARTER: The authority by which a lodge is created and works. It should always be in the Lodge when the lodge is at labor. In some places, it is called a warrant or constitution.
EXOTERIC: The opposite of ESOTERIC which means not written, secret; only for the initiated. The Masonic Monitor is exoteric. The degree work is esoteric.
Used in ___________ Lodge _________
Aug. 1997