From the Quarries

At the heart of Craft Freemasonry stands a great symbolic architecture: the Temple of King Solomon, the figure of Hiram Abiff, the twin pillars at the entrance, and the later recovery tradition of the Holy Royal Arch. This compilation gathers four lectures exploring that central imaginative world: the story of the Master Builder, the sacred space of the Temple, the meaning of the pillars, and the Royal Arch’s concern with loss, concealment, discovery, and completion. Taken together, they form a journey through one of the most enduring symbolic landscapes in Freemasonry: not merely a building of stone, but a moral, initiatory, and spiritual structure in which the Craft has long sought to express its deepest teachings.

CONTENTS

1. Introduction
2. The Story of Hiram Abiff
3. A Walk Through King Solomon’s Temple
4. Two Pillars
5. The Holy Royal Arch of Jerusalem