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Fellow Craft's Documented Working Tools

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Fellow Craft's Documented Working Tools

The working tools generally associated with Fellow Craft in published Masonic reference literature are the level, the plumb and the square, each drawn, like the tools of the other two Craft degrees, from an operative stonemason's practical kit and given a moral reading as part of the degree's publicly taught symbolism. The square in particular carries forward into the wider square and compasses emblem that represents Freemasonry as a whole.

Fellow Craft's degree lecture is also widely described, in general encyclopedic accounts of Freemasonry, as covering the liberal arts and sciences at a symbolic level, an educational theme consistent with the degree's historical operative association: a fellow of the craft was a worker who had moved past basic apprenticeship into fuller practical competence.

As with Entered Apprentice, the published record here covers only the tools' names, their operative background and their general thematic association; the specific content of the degree's ceremony, its words and its modes of recognition, remains outside what any Masonic body publishes and outside what is described in this atlas.

General encyclopedic treatments of Freemasonry present this same tool by tool progression across all three Craft degrees as a deliberate teaching device, each degree's kit building on the one before it, which is why Fellow Craft's tools are consistently discussed alongside Entered Apprentice's rather than in isolation.

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