{"collection":"mas","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/mas/gar/gar28.htm","path":"mas/gar/gar28.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/mas/gar/gar28.htm","text":"General Ahiman Rezon, by Daniel Sickels, [1868]\nAre the MOSAIC PAVEMENT, the INDENTED TESSEL, and the BLAZING STAR.\nThe Mosaic Pavement is a representation of the ground-floor of King Solomon's Temple; the Indented Tessel, * of that beautiful tesselated\nborder or skirting which surrounded it. The Mosaic Pavement is emblematical of human life, checkered with good and evil; the Indented Tessel, or Tesselated Border, of the manifold blessings and comforts which constantly surround us, and which we hope to enjoy by a firm reliance on Divine Providence, which is hieroglyphically represented by the Blazing Star in the center.\nAs the steps of man are tried in the various and uncertain incidents of life; as our days are checkered with a strange contrariety of events, and our passage through this existence, though sometimes attended with prosperous circumstances, is often beset by a multitude of evils; hence is the Lodge furnished with Mosaic work, to remind us of the precariousness of our state on earth: to-day, our feet tread in prosperity; to-morrow, we totter on the uneven paths of weakness, temptation, and adversity. While this emblem is before us, we are instructed to boast of nothing; to have compassion, and give aid to those who are in adversity; to walk uprightly, and with humility; for such is this existence, that there is no station in which pride can be stably founded: all men, in birth and in the grave, are on a level. While we tread on this Mosaic work, let our ideas return to the original, which it copies; and let every Freemason act as the dictates of reason prompt him to live in brotherly love.\n81:* The Indented Tessel is a border of stones, of various colors, plead around the pavement, cut or notched into inequalities resembling teeth.","title":"General Ahiman Rezon: First Degree: Entered Apprentice: T...","type":"page"}