THE ARCANE SCHOOLS - Fort Myers Beach Masonic Lodge No. 362

SENSES, FIVE HUMAN. A symbol of intellectual cultivation.
SETH. It is the masonic theory that the principles of the Pure or
Primitive Freemasonry were preserved in the race of Seth, which had
always
kept separate from that of Cain, but that after the flood they became
corrupted, by a secession of a portion of the Sethites, who established
the Spurious Freemasonry of the Gentiles.
SEVEN. A sacred number among the Jews and the Gentiles, and called by
Pythagoras a "venerable number."
SHEM HAMPHORASH. (_the declaratory name_.) The tetragrammaton is so
called, because, of all the names of God, it alone distinctly declares
his
nature and essence as self-existent and eternal.
SHOE. See _Investiture, Rite of_.
SIGNS. There is abundant evidence that they were used in the ancient
Mysteries. They are valuable only as modes of recognition. But while
they
are absolutely conventional, they have, undoubtedly, in Freemasonry, a
symbolic reference.
SIVA. One of the manifestations of the supreme deity of the Hindoos,
and a
symbol of the sun in its meridian.
SONS OF LIGHT. Freemasons are so called because _Lux_, or _Light_, is
one
of the names of Speculative Masonry.
SOLOMON. The king of Israel, and the founder of the temple of Jerusalem
and of the temple organization of Freemasonry.
That his mind was eminently symbolic in its propensities, is evident
from
all the writings that are attributed to him.
SPECULATIVE MASONRY. Freemasonry considered as a science which
speculates
on the character of God and man, and is engaged in philosophical
investigations of the soul and a future existence, for which purpose it
uses the terms of an operative art.
It is engaged symbolically in the construction of a spiritual temple.
There is in it always a progress--an advancement from a lower to a
higher
sphere.
SPIRITUAL TEMPLE. The body of man; that temple alluded to by Christ and
St. Paul; the temple, in the construction of which the Speculative
Mason
is engaged, in contradistinction to that material temple which occupies
the labors of the Operative Mason.