A Prayer at Lodge-Closing
A Prayer at Lodge-Closing
The Meaning Of Masonry
A PRAYER AT LODGE CLOSING
O Sovereign and Most Worshipful of all Masters, who, in Thy infinite love and wisdom, hast devised our Order as a means to draw Thy children nearer Thee, and hast so ordained its Officers that they are emblems of Thy sevenfold power;
Be Thou unto us an Outer Guard, and defend us from the perils that beset us when we turn from that which is without to that which is within; Be Thou unto us an Inner Guard, and preserve our souls that desire to pass within the portal of Thy holy mysteries;
Be unto us the Younger Deacon, and teach our wayward feet the true and certain steps upon the path that leads to Thee: Be Thou also the Elder Deacon, and guide us up the steep and winding stairway to Thy throne;
Be unto us the Lesser Warden, and in the meridian sunlight of our understanding speak to us in sacraments that shall declare the splendours of Thy unmanifested light;
Be Thou also unto us the Greater Warden, and in the awful hour of disappearing light, when vision fails and thought has no more strength, be with us still, revealing to us, as we may bear them, the hidden mysteries of Thy shadow;
And so, through light and darkness, raise us, Great Master, till we are made one with Thee, in the unspeakable glory of Thy presence in the East.
So mote it be.
See also
- So mote it be
- En: Walter Leslie Wilmshurst
- En: Wilmshurst: The meaning of masonry
- The deeper symbolism of Freemasonry
- Masonry as a philosophy
- Further notes on craft symbolism
- The form of the lodge
- The position of the officers of the lodge
- The greater and lesser Lights
- Opening and closing the lodge
- Second or Fellow-Craft Degree
- Third or Master-Mason Degree
- En: The Masonic Apron
- The holy Royal Arch of Jerusalem
- Freemasonry in relation to the ancient mysteries
- Masonic Study Society
