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    The document analyzes the numerical symbology in the Masonic apprentice degree, focusing on the binary and ternary arcana. He explains that the binary model represents opposition and complementarity, while the ternary model seeks the integrating element. Give examples such as the moon and the sun, the square and the compass. Finally, he argues that mastering the binary and ternary arcana leads to the number five, a symbol of progress in learning.

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    NUMEROLOGY IN THE INITIATIVE TRADITION OF THE MASON

    APPRENTICE:

    Some reflections on the numerical elements in the ritual of the Masonic

    Apprentice Degree.

    Q:. H:. Fernando Falcon

    Ap:. M:.

    When we reflect on the symbology of the Ritual of the Ancient and

    Accepted Scottish Rite, we find that, beyond the mystical or rational

    considerations that impel men to adopt the paths of the Light as their own,

    there exists in all these rituals a perfect agreement, both between them and in

    the whole of the Rite that imply something beyond simple symbolic

    expressions.

    In fact, each ritual of the rite contains two aspects that in themselves make up

    the central element of Masonic symbology in its esoteric and rational aspects:

    The initiatory teaching itself and its form of transmission. This esoteric

    teaching is known as the Arcanum.1

    A detailed analysis of the Rite allows us to configure a tentative classification

    of the Arcana into Five large groups.2 , namely:

    - Verbal Symbols

    1
    Hurtado, Amando: Because I am a Mason. EDAF. Madrid 1994. Q. 142.
    2
    Plantagenet, Edouard: Causeries Initiatiques en Loge d´ Apprentis. Dervy Paris 1948.
    - Gesture Symbols

    - Temporal Symbols

    - Chromatic Symbols

    - Numerical Symbols

    The purpose of this contribution will be to carry out an analysis of the

    numerical Symbology in the works of the Apprentice Degree. For these

    purposes, I will analyze the numerical symbolism of the Apprentice Degree

    from a rational Masonic and geometric perspective and I will make the

    corresponding conclusions.

    When we analyze the teaching of numerical Arcana in the Apprentice

    Degree, it is based, in all Rites, on two basic models: Binary and Ternary.

    From a purely rational point of view, the Binary model is the first Basic

    element to contrast any reality with its opposite, in order to access with greater

    precision the concretion and expression of an idea, concept or theoretical

    construction. This model, whose origin we find in Greek philosophy through

    Plato's cave and in Eastern philosophy through Ying and Yang, constitutes the

    basis of Western thought that Descartes would later model in the Discourse on

    Method. Only through darkness can the Light be perceived, femininity

    highlights and complements masculinity, Day and night, Virtue and vice, are
    examples of teaching by contrast or complement, using the Binary as a key

    element for the illustration of Being and the path to finding oneself. At the

    Apprentice level, these two elements, Contrast and complementarity, are

    expressed binaryly in various aspects of the Ritual. In Geometry, they

    represent the union of two points through a straight line, the starting point for

    the rest of the geometric figures.

    The Moon and the Sun, The square and the Compass, the Perpendicular and

    the Level, the raw stone and the carved stone, Chisel and mallet, Columns B

    and J, constitute models in apparent opposition, whose analysis and reflection

    lead to the concept of complementarity reciprocal, which in turn leads to the

    Unity of things3 .

    The tertiary model, for its part, involves the search for the integrating element

    of a reality or concepts in which a third integrating element underlies that,

    giving strength to the opposition or complementarity, implies the appearance

    of the concept or reality that allows the true passage. to reason. Dialectics, as a

    model of advanced thought, by integrating synthesis as an element that founds

    the principles of thesis and antithesis, constitutes the key element to combat

    fanaticism, superstition and error, members of the triad, in turn. time, from the

    darkness of reason4 .

    3
    Guenón, Raymond: Appercus sur l'initiation. Materiels d´Loge de Compagnons du Temple Denis Diderot
    N° 51. Paris 1995. Mimeograph.
    4
    Berteaux, Richard: La Symbolique au grade d'Apprentis. Edimaf. Paris. 1970. Pp34.
    In geometry, the tertiary element is expressed through the triangle, the

    simplest form of delimiting space through the intersection of straight lines that

    join three separate points.5 .

    In the ritual of the Apprentice degree, the tertiary model is manifested in

    several symbolic elements. The initiatory journeys. The lights of the lodge, its

    symbolic degrees (Apprentice, Companion and Master), the three parts where

    the sun shines strongly, the age of the Apprentice, the battery of the Degree,

    lead to symbolically representing the third integrative concept, a central

    element of learning. masonic. The response to the triad Wisdom, Strength and

    Beauty constitutes the central element, in my opinion, in the symbolic study of

    the Apprentice degree. The mastery of the two numerical Arcana, two and

    three, will finally configure five, time to move from the level to the

    perpendicular.

    5
    Granville, J: Plane and Spherical Trigonometry. UTEHA. Mexico. 1972. Pp5-6.

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