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Welcome to the Scottish Right Journal podcast and audio presentation
of the Scottish Right Journal, brought to you by the
Supreme Council of the Scottish Right Southern Jurisdiction Mother Supreme
Council of the World. This week's article is contemplating Edifices
Temporal and Eternal on the Feast of Tishriy by Brother
Mark Dreysenstock thirty third degree and comes from the September
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October twenty twenty five issue of the Scottish Right Journal.
In eighteen sixty six, the Supreme Council of the Ancient
and Accepted Scottish Right of Freemasonry of the Southern Jurisdiction
of the United States declared the fifteenth day of the
Jewish month of Tishriy, the equivalent of our October, to
be the Feast of Tissary, also known as the Feast
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of Tabernacles. Thus, every autumn the District of Columbia, Scottish Rite,
and many Scottish Right Valleys in the Southern Jurisdiction celebrate
this occasion. It is based on the Jewish holiday of Sukote,
a harvest festival known as the Feast of Taber or
the festival of booths. In English translations of the Bible,
we read in Leviticus chapter twenty three, verses thirty three
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through thirty four, and the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
speak unto the children of Israel. The fifteenth day of
this seventh month shall be the feast of the Tabernacles
for seven days unto the Lord. During this holiday, the
Israelites of biblical antiquity would leave their homes and enter
lightly built shelters or booths suka constructed of the leaves
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and branches of trees, in commemoration of their forty years
sojourn from Egyptian bondage to the Promised Land. This follows
the Biblical injunction, ye shall dwell in booths seven days Leviticus,
chapter twenty three, verse forty two. Yet the feast of
Tissery is more than simply Scottish Rite nomenclature for the
Jewish holiday of Sukhote. Instead, it commemorates the particular Sukote
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that occurred at the completion of construction of King Solomon's temple.
The Reverence and Quadrico Striscoll thirty second degree kcch interviewed
for this article notes fittingly that this Scottish Rite holiday
reminds all Masons that we are to be the embodiment
of King Solomon's Temple, forever rebuilding ourselves, imagining a better world,
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with the hope of becoming the master craftsman for a
better world and future. Doctor Gordon Black, in an article
in the September nineteen sixty four New Age magazine now
the Scottish Rite Journal, explains how Solomon dedicated the first
Temple in Jerusalem. He sanctified it by asking God to
keep in mind all people who would come to pray
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within its walls, not only Jews. In a similar way,
the author notes, Freemasonry honors God regardless of that religion
that each member calls his own. Likewise, the feast of
Tissery gives each Mason a unique path to follow, depending
on where each of us is on his Masonic journey.
This is reflected through the mason's personal contemplation of two
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opposite edifices, one transient and temporal and one durable and eternal.
On the one hand, the suka is symbolic of our
fragile mortality on Earth, inspiring the Mason to search for
the spiritual meditative life that transcends the material concerns of
everyday life. At the same time, one can see in
the feast a reminder of the completion of King Solomon's temple,
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emblematic of the steadfast inner temple of one's immortal soul.
Yet at the very same moment, the feast of Tissery
calls us to celebrate our Scottish Rape community and Masonic brotherhood.
It is the time for all Scottish Ripe Masons to
rejoice in fellowship, break bread with one another, and behold
how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to
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dwell together in unity Psalm one thirty three. Like and
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Supreme Council of the Scottish Right Southern Jurisdiction Mother Supreme
Council of the World. Mark Dreysenstock, thirty third degree, Managing Editor.
I'm your host, Matt Bowers