Grado 8 – Intendente de los Edificios
Segunda Clase – Grado 8º – Quinto Capitular
Grado 8 – Intendente de los Edificios
Segunda Clase – Grado 8º – Quinto Capitular
Segunda Clase – Grado 8º – Quinto Capitular
Pertenece este grado a los Israelita Salomónicos y la ceremonia de recepción está basada en el nombramiento hecho por Salomón de cinco discípulos de Hiram, para que le reemplazaran en la dirección de las obras.
El eje simbólico de este grado es el trabajo operativo de albañilería.
Su meditación es la construcción del hombre nuevo.
La decoración de la Logia es con tapicería roja. 27 luces; cinco delante del Segundo Vigilante; siete delante del Primer Vigilante y 15 delante del Presidente.
EIGHTH DEGREE.
SUPERINTENDENT OF THE BUILD INGS, OR MASTER IN ISRAEL.
The eighth degree, or fifth of Perfection, is called Superintendent of the Buildings, or Master in Israel. Solomon, wishing to bring the work which he had commenced to the greatest state of perfection, formed a degree composed of the five chiefs of the five orders of architecture, and he placed at the head of it Tito and Abda. The Lodge is hung with red, and is lighted by twenty-seven lights, arranged in thi’ee groups —one of fifteen before the Master, one of seven before the Senior Warden, and one of five before the Junior. All the Brethren
wear a broad red ribbon from the right shoulder to the left haunch ; at the foot is a green rosette, from which is suspended a triangle, with certain words in English on the one side, and Hebrew on the other, engraved upon it. The apron is white, lined^^itllred,andborderedwithgreen. Inthemiddleisastar ofninepointsplaceduponabalance. Upon the flap is a triangle, with the letters B.-. A.-. J.-.
Loth, J. (1875). The ancient and accepted scottish rite Ilustrations of the emblems of the thirty – three degrees. Simpkin, Marschall, & Co. https://archive.org/details/cu31924030318541