An extract from the oration delivered by the consecrating Chaplain, Very Worshipful Brother The Reverend C.E.Roberts, at the consecration of the lodge on the 21st of September 1936:
You will remember that mention is frequently made in our ritual of two great pillars at the entrance to King Solomon's temple. Now there were certain qualities about those pillars which I want to recommend to the founders of this lodge. The Phoenician craftsmen who made those pillars straight and strong crowned them at the top with wreaths of flowers carved in stone. To the Hebrews with their stiff geometrical art there was something very wonderful in that design, so wonderful that the Jewish historian makes a special note of it - "Upon the top of the pillars" he says "was Lily-work". They stood there, those two pillars, at the temple entrance witnessing to the truth which the Psalmist afterwards put into some unforgettable words. Speaking of God, he said "Strength and beauty are in His Sanctuary".
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You have chosen for the name of your lodge, that of a certain fabulous animal.The choice is a very happy one, happier perhaps than you knew when you first chose it. Pegasus, the horse with wings, emblem of strength with beauty. Let your lodge be a real Pegasus, strong as a horse, but winged and enriched by the beauty of its ceremonial, and adorned by the character of its members and the Lily-work of fellow-feeling and kindness and self-sacrifice.
May this Pegasus colt, which is born today, wax ever stronger and more beautiful as he grows older; may his wings be strong enough to carry him over the heights of Parnassus.
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You have chosen for the name of your lodge, that of a certain fabulous animal.The choice is a very happy one, happier perhaps than you knew when you first chose it. Pegasus, the horse with wings, emblem of strength with beauty. Let your lodge be a real Pegasus, strong as a horse, but winged and enriched by the beauty of its ceremonial, and adorned by the character of its members and the Lily-work of fellow-feeling and kindness and self-sacrifice.
May this Pegasus colt, which is born today, wax ever stronger and more beautiful as he grows older; may his wings be strong enough to carry him over the heights of Parnassus.
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