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Why Join the Holy Royal
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The
Royal Arch is the culmination of "pure ancient masonry".
The Craft gives its members eminently practical rules by
which they can live their lives in the service of both God,
however they worship Him, and the community as a whole.
Man, however, is not simply a practical being but has an
essential spiritual aspect to his nature. This is taken up
in the Royal Arch, in which the candidate, without
trespassing on the bounds of religion, is led to contemplate
the nature of God and his personal relationship with Him.
Thus the Royal Arch leads the candidate from the practical
to the spiritual and completes the journey of "pure ancient
masonry", a fascinating journey of self- knowledge and self
- discovery beginning with the Entered Apprentice degree and
culminating in the First Principal's chair of the Chapter.
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