Swedish-Zinnendorf Ritual

Here the general main division of the Order concludes.
The fourth class consists only of the most High Scottish brothers and the Red Cross, who are divided among themselves into three chapter degrees, of which the first corresponds to the Gast X Guest/Guest-degree X and the entire first main division of the Order.
The second degree consists of the highest officials of the province and corresponds to the Gast XX Guest-degree XX and the second main division.
The third degree pertains to the governing masters of the province, who are called by the words of Solomon, lead the government over three united main divisions of the Order, and close the entire brotherhood outside of these same degrees as members, which now corresponds to the Gast XXX Guest-degree XXX, or the St. John’s Master degrees, and is regarded as the guild of St. Andrew.

4. Why are the two pillars, which stand in the St. Andrew's Mother Lodge according to the silhouette of the Master, marked with the words Lux in Tenebris Light in Darkness?

Because they are symbols of the two celestial bodies, that is, the two outermost points of the compass diameter in the South and North.

5. Why is the compass divided into four parts, specifically from the center point of the dissected cross by a red cross?

Because the cross makes up the fourfold radii of the same, which divide the center point into four main parts.

6. Why has a significant path been made to the center point of this cross?

Because he was struck down in the middle of the ruins of the destroyed temple. Here he is meant to represent the treasure chest, which our fathers found keeping the Ark of the Covenant, for which the rainbow scroll with the Master’s word written upon it is a symbol.

7. What does the sparkling star signify, which illuminates the Scottish Master Lodge from high above in the East over the entrance to the temple itself?

It signifies wisdom and the shining star that guided our fathers when they sought and found the foundation stone under the ruins, which is a triangle, one part yellow, the other blue; the common center place is green; the letter G is fire-red and the fourth of the main colors, of which the blue and yellow are assigned to the St. John's Lodge, and the green and red to the St. Andrew's Lodge.

8. What does the letter G in the star signify?

Not only geometry, but also the name of the Supreme Architect.

9. Why does a rainbow surround the star?

Because this is the sign that the Supreme Architect set for the covenant with Noah.

10. Why is the vault of the rainbow carried by two pillars that stand on both sides of the door, which represent the entrance of the Provincial Lodge itself?

Because the vault, the pillars, and the door represent the parish or the entrance itself to our new inner temple, before which the presiding Master of the St. Andrew's Mother Lodge has his seat.

11. Why is the altar marked on one front side with a green St. Andrew's Cross framed in gold?

Because that means that the literal meaning here is the same as it has in the St. Andrew's Mother Lodge, worn by the Scottish Master in green with a golden border, just as our ancestors in Scotland adopted and wore it.

12. What do the burning lamp and the seven lights standing on the altar signify?

The lamp is here also a symbol of the guide, which spreads light, warmth, and power. The three lights in the forefront aim at the privileges of the St. John's degrees; the remaining four in a square signify the privileges of the St. Andrew's Lodge community. All signify the union of the St. John's and the Andrew's brothers, whose different branches make up the grace of the world-building, which are symbolized by the seven spirits of the world, of which there is talk in the St. John's retinue.

13. What does the golden crown of the St. Andrew's Lodge lying on the altar signify?

It testifies to the rule of the St. Andrew's Lodge, for the crown signifies the ornament of wisdom.

14. What does the sword signify?

It shows the preference of the St. Andrew's brothers, and that greater power has been granted to these presiding Masters, because he must watch over the work and fight for it with the sword in one hand and the mason's trowel in the other.

15. What does the so-called tassel, which is pinned to the south side of the working board, signify?

It serves for the incitement and union strike of the St. Andrew's Masters when they have ended their travels, and when they allow, silent, as our fathers made a firm bond when they brought up the evening-path with the help of it. In the Scottish Mother Lodge, it lies around one corner of their working board as a square, later probably set upright because our Scottish brethren do not yet know that this square serves as a tassel.

16. What does the golden rope, whose one knot is fastened to one arm of the cross, signify?

It is used to tie almost every new member of the Scottish brotherhood, partly in memory of the union of the architects that was needed when they brought up the evening-path with a rope, partly as proof that the golden rope, which is otherwise the symbol of the union knot of the tools of the Triply Great Architect, must also be the most important sign of union that knots the luminous brothers together.

17. What do the four large candelabra signify, which stand around the working board and each of which bears three burning lights?

They signify the four main locations of the residence points of the building, as well as the four main divisions of the Order. The twelve lights, which also come for formation on the and three different sieges in the art of building, also serve the Scottish Master as a reminder of the 12 architects and builders who returned from Babel, and the Master,