good within freemasonry we may see the idea of no tool of iron being used in the construction of king solomon's temple as a metaphor for all aggression and war associated with mars are removed from the temple and we begin the work the same of the truth and the outcome of collapse the outcome is taught that everything in their doctrine can be described through symbols and therefore it was the understanding of symbols in the symbolic language that allowed the outcome of us to the next stage th it's needed to do this he needed to choose a particular herb that he wanted to work with all alchemy involved collecting things with planetary signatures breaking them down in order to rebuild them in more perfect all essence was kept intact once that herb was pulled up by troops the next stage was to hang it up and allow it to dry once it was dry then you do next stage was to actually take the herb in by using a mortar and pestle grind it up is fine as possible to this day there are some chambers of reflection which are used particularly within the entered apprentice degree in europe and in some traditional observance lodges in which a mortar and pestle be found once this herb was ground up as fine as possible the next stage was to take this earth and place it into a vessel once it was in the bessel the next stage would be to take a alcohol or spirits fill the vessel up to a low water mark and allow the oils from within that herb to start to digest into the solution itself this was really the first stage of the chemical process and because it was so involved with liquid it was associated with water in order to further this process along and this would take the vessel and place it in what was known as a say in bath come here and i'll show it to you whilst the herb was placed into the vessel it was then placed within  same bath what this allowed it to do is as there was heat the heat would become equally distributed around the vessel itself the liquid within the vessel that would start to heat up and circulate within the vessel when this happened it caused the oils to start to separate the optimist would be sure at the beginning stages of this work to then take the vessel out of the sand bath twice in twenty four hours in order to shake the vessel very bigger asli this help to separate that would even further then it was placed back in the same bath to allow everything to circulate when this stage occurred the herb was no longer associated with just an herb but took on the new  crossbones sometimes it was depicted as a raven resting on top of a school but ultimately it symbolized the first little death of the herb itself as it was washed within the vessel certainly this beginning stages any entered apprentice will find resonance within the actual penalties associated with his degree the fact that this degree was associated with water the herbalists port was torn out by its roots true to not only our chemical techs but the early rites of initiation of the gnostics and even earlier egyptian mystery schools the first stage of initiation into the mysteries was always associated with water water was considered purifying and in this first stage an alchemy the liquid millstone that we have in this case using alcohol represents that reclose in the herb and literally giving it a baptism if you will to prepare for its next stage the next stage in the alchemical process after the herb is digested and it's gone through that water stage used to take the herb in its vessel and does still it distilling it this does is it removes the heart in vitals of the herb or the mineral components in the wheels from the herb and separates them from the body of the year itself when happens through heat the vessels heated up the liquid then turns into steam the steam rises up to the highest pinnacle of the apparatus only to later fall in condensed down like you do or rain into another vessel in this way all the essences from the herb have been removed this next stage was associated with air because as it's very clear the liquid as it turns into that steam is a form of air itself and the out chemical tax the stage was usually represented by birds or vultures sometimes crows picking at that corpses and picking out the heart vital organs of a corpse itself and then flying to the highest pinnacle of a commercial techs depicted them as a temple or as a church steeple in which they pray that because the work was deemed sacred within freemasonry such ideas are obviously alluded to again related to the penalty as so she did with the obligation of a fellow craft just as the first degree was associated with water the second degree then is associated with air in it we find the idea of the birds picking out the heart vitals and taking him to the highest pinnacle of the temple within freemasonry itself this idea of the distillation also relates to the public craft as he is in the first degree he is digesting all the experiences that he has been initiated into but by the second degree he's learning to distill it break it down and figure out how to get the best essences out of this new craft sometimes what happens is after all the essences of been this still doubt what is left over at the bottom of the vessel is a is the remaining ground up herb and during the final stages of  distillation tiny holes will start to form in the ground up herb itself and they look like prairie dog holes or or ground squirrel holes in a field the jurisdiction  jurisdiction is that talk about them beasts of the field this is this what is alluding to is this plane or this field is created where all these tiny holes are formed that you would find snakes or or other crawling out of it because that's exactly what we see within the vessel itself one of the things that's also worth pointing out is that during the up chemical process it's distilled over it comes out as a new clear why dish solution so it is gone from black to red to white through this first stage of the process once everything is been removed and distill from the original vessel what we have are there are two components out of three which are required within the out chemical work we have effectively removed what is called the sulfur of the earth or the wheels of the herb and also the mercury of the herb which was associated with the alcohol and actually what the mercury was was it was believed to be a vital life force which is contained within the air we breathe and is attracted to things like water and alcohol in fact this is where the words spirits gets its name from for alcohol itself so we have we have captured the mercury in the sulfur there is one final element that we need to capture though which is called of salts of the herb and ultimately believed that the salts the sulphur in the mercury could be recombined in order to form a perfect stone in our chemical attacks the salts were usually so she added with corn or wheat since corn or wheat is a mean body this made up of all kinds of little seeds or little parts just like matter itself can be broken down to all these little grains of the secret of chemical salt the sulphur was associated with oil because it was the actual wools from out of the herb itself and the alcohol or mercury was associated with wine particularly since grapes and wine could were associated with the sun and not chemical attacks but it was also very easy to drop the whole thing from wind itself so cor winding loyal they would go together to form a perfect stone or salt so for him or three just like we find in corner stones there modi's within freemasonry itself in order to extract the sulks however we needed to call them from the bowels of the original vessel that we were distilling at the bottom of this vessel after we've distilled all the liquids out of it is a remnant body which is broken down in which the outcome is called be thiis mostly because it think it's military good and kind of looked like feces this residue that was left over at the bowels of of the vessel then needed to be burned to ashes or house unaided in a crucible in order so that we could extract the salts out of it here now what's interesting is a hold out chemical tax they used cipher symbols for the different stages of the work and for the different implements and lab national talk to mainz of rarely be followed the same fate with national writers strike generally requiring some proof of real world use of the name but freemason dot ca was registered in on mason in two thousand and four and is currently farm other names have also been lost go masonry dot com is now listed for sale for over thirty thousand dollars the early days of website development imposed a steep learning curve on those unfamiliar with  developing technology for which the ground rules were still evolving there were those websites registered before fees were imposed where the owners found themselves later unable to prove ownership of a situation without back to the processing payment simpler unfortunately his company was shortly thereafter absorbed by another company and both the domain for the email address he had use when registering a domain and his real world mailing address ceased to exist that two years later the registrar network solutions misnomers there was one refuse all attempts to transfer ownership to the grand lot soon thereafter b c dad freemasonry dot com became a portal for gambling sites and today it's part true and i have to be in florida grand lodge of alabama had a similar experience while the grand lodge in minnesota and its own problems with a member who expected to profit by his their original you are out there are probably other stories the newsgroups are open for us found on usenet provided free masons an opportunity to meet free masons from around the world it also introduce attempt to create straw man for him for them  the point is what might have remained a local non issue became known to the online masonic community and the public at large through blogs such as burning paper got blogspot dot com and the  absence of real world contact information names or meeting place of the press in mordor freemasonry while the united grand lodge of england has expressed its belief that the regular grand lodge of england is composed of little more than a handful of member it developed a much discussed online presence and since two thousand and five if this was a history of irregular freemasonry there are many questions that need to be answered in the history of freema online they simply highlight the fact that without the internet no one outside of their own circle probably have ever heard of any of these people where all these many websites and the organizations or individuals behind them are irritation there and done perhaps summarized it best the grand lodges are watching the start off with fear and trembling and certainly not with benign news they do see it as a symptom of the problem that many are address the internet has also given a forum to any freemason who justifiably or not may have with his logs or ground law while some created their own new growths in the real world others wish to stay within regular freemasonry known only by the principal only within the jurisdiction there are now bandied about the internet anyone and everyone can read about starting with the grand lodge of connecticut's recognition of prince all free but the damage was done to this day some of these areas continue to be found on the on the public abandoned web sites of otherwise well meaning brother one error had a wider impact outside freemasonry i don't clear where it was first posted online but its origin can most probably be laid at the doorstep of former freemason jim shaw who claimed that the reverend billy graham was a thirty third degree free evangelical christians who are both and he masonic and felt reverend graham wasn't christian and on the removal of his name incited them further friends rather than accepting that some well meaning freemasons had made an honest mistake this was now viewed as proof positive that there was a cover up one last as bank of the internet should be noted virtual worlds at bottom simply chat rooms with internet interactive three and most of them claim to be populated by freemason the internet has been a boon to freemason many jurisdictions and founded a growing number of their candidates are coming from that group of young educated intelligent computer users