hi Nicolmare

not sure what i met [didn't want to appear totally nacisstic]; but, yes... was/am completely serious

found this; this morning:

after the destruction of the first temple, when the captives in Babylon are released by the Decree of Cyrus and are instructed to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple.

The ceremony called “passing the veils” concerns three sojourners who journey to Jerusalem and present their credentials to the Sanhedrin, asking to be given work on the new temple.

However, the veils allude to the Tabernacle erected by Moses and the Scripture readings refer to the Exodus story, replicating a ceremonial carried out every seven weeks by the Therapeutae Essenes of Qumran in the first centuries BC and AD, exhorting obedience to the Covenant until the second coming of the Lord.

The moral is revealed in the allegory of the Royal Arch, when the sojourners are put to work to clear away the rubbish in preparation for the second temple.

Through their diligence the “Lost Word” is recovered, teaching that all men are equal in the sight of God and that the lowest work will receive full and just reward if properly carried out.

The esoteric lesson is that salvation can be found only through a complete faith in the “True Word”, representing the present, future and eternal “I Am”.

link:
[link to www.hiram.net] masons/The_Symbols_of_Freemasonry.html