2018-12

ALTAR:
In the Craft it is an essential part of the furniture of a lodge room; on it are placed the Three Great Lights (…). Too often in English practice it is inconveniently combined with the Master’s pedestal, but elsewhere the two are clearly separated. Indeed, under many jurisdictions it is customary to place the altar well away from the East, more often than not as central feature of the lodge room and with the three candlesticks set about it. In the Royal Arch and in some degrees related to it, there is an altar “wrought in the form of a double cube”. In several Orders of Christian Freemasonry an essential and prominent feature of the apartments in which they meet is a rectangular altar in the East, with the principal officers seated on either side of it.