The First Degree: An Apprentice’s Companion to the Continental Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite

You have been initiated. The door has closed behind you, the lights have gone up, and you have been handed an apron, a pair of gloves, and an ashlar to shape. And then, almost certainly, you have been handed very little else.

For the English-speaking Apprentice entering a Continental lodge, there has been almost nothing to read. The great companions to the first degree are written in French, and they assume a reader already inside the tradition. This book was written to fill that silence.

The First Degree is a patient, unhurried walk through the Apprentice year as it is actually lived in the Continental Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite: the Chamber of Reflection, the initiation, the tracing board, the working tools, the long year of silence, and what all of it is for. It draws on the French masters, Mondet, Wirth, Boucher, and others, read in the original, and on the author’s own years in the East.

It does not hand the Apprentice answers. The Continental tradition does not work that way. It offers something better: the materials to think with, the company of those who have gone before, and the trust that the reader will build themselves.

Auteur : Nathalie Valkov

Editeur : L.O.L.
Prix de vente public : 25,53 €
Nombre de pages : 366 pages
Dimensions : 15.24 x 2.21 x 22.86 cm

EAN : 978-2492878985