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Recommendations for an EA

CorbanGW

Registered User
Any recommendations for an EA? I will be initiated next Friday and want to have some books prepared
 

Warrior1256

Site Benefactor
Your GL may have memorization work for you to be working on. I’d start there.
True. After your initiation you will be busy doing memorization work to prepare for the Fellowcraft degree.
Best to go into the ceremonies cold! Don’t read ahead unless your lodge gave you a reading list.
Absolutely! If you read anything before hand it may spoil the experience for you.
 

coachn

Coach John S. Nagy
Premium Member
Any recommendations for an EA? I will be initiated next Friday and want to have some books prepared
That truly all depends upon if you enjoy receiving gifts not knowing what they are OR knowing what they are in advance.

Reading anything about ritual before hand that spoils a surprise defeats the whole purpose of experiencing something for the first time without foreknowledge.

That being said and to the contrary, if you have seriously studied the Bible (more specifically what is called "The OT" by Christians) and Classic Greek Philosophy, you're going to experience Ritual as a kid in a candy store with free reign. If you have not done so, then you're going to be pretty well impervious to most all that is put before you, including the explanations.

Either way, I suggest you go into this as if it were a rollercoaster ride and do so with your hands held high and your seatbelt fastened tightly; enjoy the ride!
 

dfreybur

Premium Member
Any recommendations for an EA? I will be initiated next Friday and want to have some books prepared

It's way too late to start reading books on philosophy.

Once you are initiated the amount of work to get your next degree is similar to a class at junior college. You will be far too busy with the assigned work to worry about other material.

Ask us again several months before your degree. Oops, too late for that. Ask us again after you present your Master Mason proficiency. Then the answer will be everything.
 

hfmm97

Premium Member
Any recommendations for an EA? I will be initiated next Friday and want to have some books prepared

CorbanGW:

Freemasonry is unlike any educational system in that you are given the credentials first (EA) and then study for the exams as a requirement to advance to the next levels.

Besides which, in some jurisdictions, the ritual work is done by memory and in a mouth to ear fashion by working with a Masonic instructor.

Good luck and best regards




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Warrior1256

Site Benefactor
I suggest you go into this as if it were a rollercoaster ride and do so with your hands held high and your seatbelt fastened tightly; enjoy the ride!
An excellent way to put it!
Once you are initiated the amount of work to get your next degree is similar to a class at junior college. You will be far too busy with the assigned work to worry about other material.
Exactly.
 

dfreybur

Premium Member
Every teenager should be reading books on philosophy !

Starting several years before the petition not several days before. I remember reading The Republic in high school but my philosophy courses were undergrad college. Whenever I could check off a general education requirement with an anthropology or philosophy course I signed up. I could have had a minor if I had focused on one of those.

You and I and many members of this board have different ideas of education than most teenagers! Go figure ...
 

otherstar

Registered User
Every teenager should be reading books on philosophy !

I agree. I was reading Aquinas and Aristotle on my own in high school. There are some high schools that actually teach philosophy as part of their curriculum in Houston (Catholic schools, mostly).
 
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