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I will do more than belong –– I will participate.
I will do more than care –– I will help.
I will do more than believe –– I will practice.
I will do more than be fair –– I will be kind.
I will do more than forgive –– I will forget.
I will do more than dream –– I will work.
I will do more than teach –– I will inspire.
I will do more than earn –– I will enrich.
I will do more than give –– I will serve.
I will do more than live –– I will grow.
I will do more then be friendly –– I will be a friend.
I will do more than be a citizen –– I will be a patriot.
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"Seven is universally the number of completeness. The time-periods of creation were seven. The spectrum of light consists of seven colors; the musical scale of seven notes, our division of time is into weeks of seven days; our physiological changes run in cycles of seven years. Man himself is a seven-fold organism in correspondence with all these and the normal years of his life are seven multiplied by 10."
- Walter Leslie Wilmshurst, FURTHER NOTES ON CRAFT SYMBOLISM
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Nuit. Goddess of the sky as represented by the night sky (stars). Goddess of resurrection. Her hands and feet attach to the Earth at the four cardinal points, representing N, S, E, and W. Mother of the Sun and the Moon. She gives birth to the Sun every morning, and eats it every night.
"She gives birth to the sun in the east and swallows the sun in the west."
"Nut was sometimes represented as a woman carrying a vase of water on her head, which was often horned. The hieroglyph for her name, is a water pot, which is also thought to represent a womb or Aquarius."
"She was a goddess of death, and her image is on the inside of most sarcophagi. The pharaoh entered her body after death and was later resurrected."
"In the Book of the Dead, Nut was seen as a mother-figure to the sun god Ra, who at sunrise was known as Khepera and took the form of a scarab beetle (at noon he was Ra at his full strength, and at sunset he was known as Tem (Temu, Atem) who was old and weakening):
Homage to thee, O thou who hast come as Khepera, Khepera the creator of the gods, Thou art seated on thy throne, thou risest up in the sky, illumining thy mother [Nut], thou art seated on thy throne as the king of the gods. [Thy] mother Nut stretcheth out her hands, and performeth an act of homage to thee....
The Company of the Gods rejoice at thy rising, the earth is glad when it beholdeth thy rays; the people who have been long dead come forth with cries of joy to behold thy beauties every day. Thou goest forth each day over heaven and earth, and thou art made strong each day by thy mother Nut....
Homage to thee, O thou who art Ra when thou risest, and who art Tem when thou settest in beauty. Thou risest and thou shinest on the back of thy mother [Nut], O thou who art crowned the king of the gods! Nut welcometh thee, and payeth homage unto thee, and Maat, the everlasting and never-changing goddess, embraceth thee at noon and at eve....
The gods rejoice greatly when they see my beautiful appearances from the body of the goddess Nut, and when the goddess Nut bringeth me forth."
Sources: http://www.crystalinks.com/nut.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nut_(goddess)
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The four cardinal directions correspond to the following degrees of a compass:
North (N): 0° = 360°
East (E): 90°
South (S): 180°
West (W): 270°
An ordinal, or intercardinal, or intermediate, direction is one of the four intermediate compass directions located halfway between the cardinal directions.
Northeast (NE), 45°, halfway between north and east, is the opposite of southwest.
Southeast (SE), 135°, halfway between south and east, is the opposite of northwest.
Southwest (SW), 225°, halfway between south and west, is the opposite of northeast.
Northwest (NW), 315°, halfway between north and west, is the opposite of southeast.
Masonically, we sometimes discuss a ninety degree angle or the fourth part of a square. This may illuminate interesting parallels with degrees and directions. The fourth part of a square is ninety degrees, which corresponds with "East" in the model above. The place of darkness corresponds with both zero and 360 degrees. The degrees may have others significance as they correspond with the path or position of the Sun by East to South to West.
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Honor all men; love the brotherhood; fear God.
1 Peter 17
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Masonry represents a near unlimited opportunity to act, to learn, to explore.
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