CLO Epilogues
First degree
Brethren, today you have witnessed an Initiation Ceremony. From a Masonic perspective, it is the first side of a square. The Second and Third Degrees follow in due time, but in order to complete the square, a fourth side is required. This is the Supreme Order of the Royal Arch. It is achieved only by joining the Chapter. If you have not yet completed your Masonic Square, it is recommended that you do so.
Second degree
Brethren, when you completed the Ceremony of your Initiation, you were informed you had begun your Masonic journey on the first side of a square. In the Second Degree, you were passed through a figurative right angle to the second side of that figure. As Fellow Crafts you have reached the half-way point: the Third Degree is yet to come, and then the Royal Arch Chapter forms the completion of the square, and I exhort all who have not yet become members to do so.
Third degree
Brethren, at the conclusion of the Third Degree you have completed three sides of the figurative square which defines your Masonic career. You are well instructed in the duties you owe to God, to your neighbour and to yourselves. But there is more to learn; the story is not yet finished. A full month must elapse before a new Master Mason qualifies to become a Companion of the Royal Arch Chapter, and Brethren are advised to consider this significant move. And at that time, you will be conducted through the final stage and welcomed into the Supreme Degree, the completion of the square.