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Chapter 5 - Technical Terminology
builder, had laid the foundation'; and when, still further extending the
metaphor, he told the Ephesians that they were 'built upon the
foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the
chief cornerstone, in whom all the building fitly framed together,
groweth unto a holy temple in the Lord; in whom also ye are builded
together for a habitation of God through the spirit.' 1007
Mackey cites a German catechism from 1800 where it is said that "[e]very
king will be a Freemason, even though he wears no Mason's apron, if he shall be
God-fearing [...]. And every Freemason is a king, [...] with rank equal to that of a
king and with sentiments that become a king, for his kingdom is LOVE, the love
of his fellow-man [...]." 1008 And this, according to Mackey, makes Freemasonry
an art, and the most noble art of all, a "Royal Art." A corresponding
interpretation is stated in the German Masonic dictionary, the IFL, which sees
Freemasonry as an "art of living":
Im symbolischen Sinne bezeichnet sich die Freimaurerei sehr
nachdrücklich ebenfalls als die K[önigliche] K[unst], als eine Kunst, die
für die Loge, die Lehrstätte, darin besteht, ihre Jünger mit Hilfe der
freimaurerischen Symbole zur Humanität zu erziehen, die für den
einzelnen Freimaurer aber eine Lebenskunst ist, die Kunst ernster
Selbsterkenntnis, strenger Selbsterziehung und harmonischer
Lebensführung, die Kunst, die als ihr höchstes Gebot die Liebe nennt,
die Kunst, 'die eigene Seele, wie die Menschheit zur Wohnung des
Ewigen zu erbauen'. 1009
35. Tyler (or Tiler)
Junior Deacon: Worshipful Master, the Lodge is tyled.
Worshipful Master: How tyled?
Junior Deacon: By a brother of this degree, without the inner
door, invested with the proper implement of
his office (the sword).
Worshipful Master: His duty there?
Junior Deacon: To keep off all cowans and eavesdroppers ...
1010
A Masonic lodge can only be opened or closed when it has been verified that
no intruders are present; that is, when the lodge is duly or properly tyled. This
duty is executed by the Tyler (also written "Tiler"), in French "Couvreur," and in
1007 EOF, p. 648/649.
1008 Ibid, p. 649.
1009 IFL, p. 890/891.
1010 Cf. Duncan, p. 13. Bold print added.