Masonic Tracing Board Decoded & Explained

Esoteric Journal Video Podcast Series:
Episode Number One:
“The Entered Apprentice of The Temple of Solomon”
@ 6:15 when I described the three pillars, my hand should have been still, not pointing to the pillars. I noticed this after I uploaded the video. Please disregard from 6:15-6:20.
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Today I wanted to share with you a couple pages from my esoteric journal. The topic for this video is the first Masonic Tracing Board and the Entered Apprentice of the Temple of Solomon. In the video I explain some esoteric interpretations of the symbolism of, and the philosophy behind, the first Masonic Tracing Board.
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Video by Kristofer Eugene Hagner, F.R.C.
Created with my iPhone 8 Plus & the iMovie app.
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[@bennevelynt4718]

Amazing. Long have I been a seeker, although not a Mason myself. Such information is a treasure. As someone constantly looking for this kind of thing, I really appreciate you making this avaliable to me. I believe you've earned a subscriber in me.

[@subrosa4792]

I sincerely appreciate you watching, subscribing, and leaving a comment! It really makes my efforts feel worthwhile!

[@nancydepoe4256]

Kris, thanks so much for your video on The Masonic Tracing Board! Your drawing and presentation was just very impressive! Thanks again and all the best for you in 2022!

[@olemolokoplus]

Thank you very much. You presented the concepts in a very clear, easy to understand manner and I learned a lot. Well done.

[@terrencewoolard1719]

Watching in 2024 please do more vids like this

[@thezeppo1138]

Thank you! Ive been looking for an explanation of this tracing board. Awesome stuff.

[@billmiller5706]

Thankyou. Enjoyed it.

[@johnpayne8251]

Thank you so much. Have just started my journey. 118 NZ

[@frankiefrank4853]

I like the idea of a journal of specific topics. Nice job.

[@subrosa4792]

Thank you so much! Glad you like it! Thanks for taking the time to watch the video and leave a comment, I sincerely appreciate it!

[@Mr_Magpie_]

Excellent drawings & writing brother

[@subrosa4792]

Thank you so much, I’m glad you like the video!

[@AuntMarysNiece]

This was so insightful.

[@babciaknows]

Very well done, worthy of a share within my circle, as explains so many very basic concepts tied neatly together. Thank you! Heidi

[@chad8251]

what does moses have to do with the pillars of soloman's temple

[@westlisbon6307]

You are a sweet person/spirit.

[@subrosa4792]

Thank you! And thank you for watching!

[@coreylehr1883]

Love your channel! Glad i stumbled across it

[@occultperspectives7236]

Great video 🤍

[@lvxleather]

Awesome video brother. Peace Profound 🌹

[@ayaygabriel]

I really enjoyed that, thank you for sharing your journal

[@eivenhoe]

Very good and understandable video. Your Videos and Content always are made with so much love, kind regards

[@carolknoll3608]

Thank you for sharing this wisdom.

[@jamesmac6353]

Thank you for your contribution of light.

[@subrosa4792]

Thanks for watching and leaving a comment, I really appreciate it!

[@xlilace14x]

I love your video great job my brother

[@damongardiner4133]

fantastic teaching!please do more like this. the journal was fabulously marvelous!

[@subrosa4792]

Thank you, I will work on another journal based lesson/video like this one! I’m glad you liked the idea!

[@damongardiner4133]

please do I learned so much. you explain things in a way I can understand .i am very thankful!@@subrosa4792

[@subrosa4792]

Thank you so much! I’m thinking about similar videos about the other tracing boards and perhaps the tree of life. Do you have any other ideas that would work with the journal/video concept?

[@pdub1976]

​@@subrosa4792I agree that the Trestle Board is a very important piece. Not only for the designs put upon it for good and wholesome instructions for their labors, but also for learning the MM Degree.

[@increasement]

Hey, cool B.O.T.A. bookmark! :)

[@kos1378]

Fantastic! Well done brother!

[@subrosa4792]

Thank you, Brother, I appreciate your kind words!

[@animalreikitherapist]

That is very interesting that you mention the Masonic lodges always facing due East and West because there is a very articulate and beautiful lodge where I live and it is facing North and South. I wonder why its not following suit?

[@pdub1976]

Unfortunately, a lot of Lodges are not truly laid out in the traditional manner of the compass due to the either the layout out the streets in the city or town, or if the building chosen does not have a true Easterly alignment. But all the ancient Temples and Lodges do face East as to where the master of the Lodge is seated. So even though my three Lodges do not face East in the meeting degree room, we still do have it marked out as it does though. Because it is important to do so for a few reasons. Not only for the positions of the elected officials, but for the journeys of the candidates coming through as well.

[@justamason6869]

Is the music kimo hussey?

[@mariastv8281]

Wow👍👍thank you so much😊

[@dvgbeatz]

great video brother

[@ryverstixx4746]

Salam. Peace be with you. Light unto you, brother~π

[@subrosa4792]

Glad you liked the video! May peace be with you as well! Thank you for watching!

[@paulhargreaves9103]

Very impressive...! Thank you.....

[@subrosa4792]

Thank you! I appreciate the kind words and I’m glad to be of service!

[@Platochidi]

Peace profound frater! Ty

[@subrosa4792]

Peace Profound! 🌹

[@mauritssteemers389]

just watch this video do you have more videos in your oooh sooooo beautiful diary? Bless you

[@iamsoulcandy]

Very nicely done!

[@subrosa4792]

Shining Light thank you! I appreciate your kind words! I’m glad you liked the video!

[@alexchavez3244]

Solomon means soul of man.

[@AFRoSHEENT3ARCMICHAEL69]

Also Solo Man. Mon comes from Mono meaning one. Soul is sole. Build the temple from the foundation up. Sol is the 5th in Do Re Mi Fa SOL La Ti Do. The golden ratio Phi. we even say Phi in Five like Phive. Sol the 5th is golden. The power chord. Nah mean? It's the same spiral numbers from the Pine cone.

[@Zaycream21]

​@@AFRoSHEENT3ARCMICHAEL69please...say more

[@alexchavez3244]

The pine cone back then was used as the pineal gland today the Roman Catholic Church has pine cones but don’t know what they symbolize

[@DaddyRules-b3w]

Jesus means g is us

[@billmiller5706]

I've learned that the story of Jesus is the story of us as individuals and that we too, by use of the pineal gland can be illuminated. Does this sound correct?

[@guidedmeditation2396]

Many meanings have been laid on the two columns. So many it is like an onion or artichoke you have to keep peeling them all away. It is my understanding the absolute highest meanings of the columns is that they represent the pillars of the universe and how it all comes about and operates. One pillar is "Principle" and the other "Personality". The principle is the feminine and the Personality is masculine principles. According to the lectures and writings of Judge Thomas Troward. There are many audiobook readings here on YT. The Ein Sof is the pre manifestation source of all there is and the physical world allows constant change and differentiation from source providing personality and desires/likes/dislikes. In the continual reciprocal interchange between the two the Ein Sof is allowed to continually evolve itself. When a man or any being manages to merge its consciousness with the universal consciousness it is represented by the keystone in the middle of an archway between the two. This is why the Tarot has a priest/priestess between the columns. In the modern world you would simply call someone who has attained this consciousness enlightened. When contemplating Solomon's temple think of it as a machine and overlay it on the human body and think of it as a biological machine. We think nothing of replicating human parts like joints, hearts, we have kidney dialisis machines, ear implants etc. But think of Soloman's temple as an occult prayer machine/manifestation machine. Notice how even with the Ark of the covenant in its portable tent operates the very same way--- literally and not symbolically. The Ark is not a religious relic but technology. Like a super powered being-made pineal gland. The human body is a manifestation machine. The great pyramids were as well and did many other things. The Ark device was stolen from the pyramids and used as a manifestation/replicator using silk sheets flapping in the wind to power it. Then Solomon built a permanent home for it on the temple mount. You can be sure those who have the device now have back engineered it and are using it to shape world events today. In fact the oil in the middle east may have been created with the machine. All of this information is readily available, you just have to connect the dots for the picture to emerge. It is so easy to get caught up in symbols and meanings and miss the great simplicity that enlightenment actually is. Personally I think the Baphomet does a fine job of simplifying entire libraries into one simple form. At first gland it may look like a cockroach monster from hell but of course it is nothing like that at all.

[@thewonderlandcompany]

And also, throughout my lessons and research the masculine is left and feminine, right. Again the pillars are meant to be taken as something to behold, no become.

[@theFury1111]

Have you a link for the book?

[@beyondtheveil3870]

Powells Book Store? Are from Portland Oregon too?

[@ryverstixx4746]

The other videos on this channel are different do you have any others??

[@fernandohernandezjr5696]

Great work sir

[@samihshehade2695]

can you explain please what is MAL ?

[@DisobedientSpaceWhale]

Trying to learn the 2nd degree tracing board hoped this was the ritual 😬

[@pharaohrameses6061]

Thank you

[@subrosa4792]

Thank you for watching! I’m glad you like the video! Lots more videos coming soon!

[@Holistic-Healthcare]

Are you SRIA Brother?

[@alexchavez3244]

Johns vision of him being a sleep in his dream revelation is his revelation of Christ and seeing his spiritual body the bronze feet are the aura that we have around our spiritual self.

[@jessicarangel3436]

and who is Christ? I had a dream about the spiral staircase and seeing god like people dressed in white ascending and descending.

[@alexchavez3244]

@@jessicarangel3436 god is the sun 😂

[@jessicarangel3436]

@@alexchavez3244 I don’t think it is

[@alexchavez3244]

@@jessicarangel3436 it is that’s why Jesus has a sun in back of his head and the zodiac signs are the apostles with him the 12 and he rises and the sun is the light of the world 😂💀💀🙄

[@alexchavez3244]

@@jessicarangel3436 go learn allegory and esoteric.

[@aaronbuster5665]

It’s about the earth.

[@frank_calvert]

Solomon's name has nothing to do with the sun or moon, since the word "Sol" is from Latin, which originated thousands of years after Solomon allegedly lived. Solomon is derived from "Shalom", meaning peace in Hebrew

[@ironempath7261]

Oh wow. Well done. But aren't these secret teachings, forbidden to be shared?

[@xuper5289]

What is so secret about it.?

[@iam2975]

Maybe only forbidden to share for those who are initiated🤷‍♂️

[@jorgemontana75]

Let him. More than half of his information was wrong anyway

[@jorgemontana75]

Obviously not a mason

[@rxk128]

The eye on I see pillar ionic

[@fdfjyjgkljkl-wi8se]

8:50

[@NoNeck-w9n]

If you knew anything at all then you would know this information is not for the uninitiated. WAKE UP...

[@subrosa4792]

I learned this information from Manly P Hall’s books. Those books are public knowledge. I don’t know why Manly P Hall would be given the honorary 33rd degree if he was disseminating secret information that should not have been shared publicly. Lots of people cite Manly P Hall. His entire library of Masonic, Rosicrucian, and alchemical texts is either uploaded or will be uploaded, that’s an amazing resource! Anyone can Google “Manly P Hall library” and get access to a giant trove of incredible books, check it out if you haven’t already! I especially like his rare alchemy books and magical grimoires. Thank you for watching!

[@dbdent8245]

Please remember that the name Solomon is an English derivative of the ORIGINAL Hebrew SHLOMO which derives from the Hebrew for PEACE. Its source language is the 3 letters S L M which you will also find in the capital city of Israel > JERUSALEM and also as indicated below by Ryver with the Arabic SALAAM . It does NOT have any connection with 'soul of man' = TOTAL wishful thinking and TOTALLY INCORRECT. Please always check original sources especially from OT which is written in HEBREW!!!

[@dawnsinay1464]

Sun worship ... self self self .... Gods coming back time to repent or all ur masonic sins.

[@judsonmontemagno]

Three paths Severity is fire side Beauty is water Wisdom is a combination of (new) earth and (new) air The center path, the gate perhaps. Three crosses at golgotha (sorry if I misspelled this)

[@h2oquality2010]

I really like your book. Looks old. Where did you buy it? You'd be an excellent teacher. Great explanation and clear enunciation.

[@subrosa4792]

Hey, thank you! I appreciate that! I think this video came out pretty good too, one of my better videos. The book came from Powell’s books downtown Portland, Oregon. It was in their journal area, the only one they had left. They might have one on their website. Thank you for watching!

[@h2oquality2010]

@@subrosa4792 Ah, you're way up there. Ok. Thank you. I'll check their website and bookstores around me. There are many bookstores around me maybe I'll find one too.

[@subrosa4792]

There is no title. It’s a blank journal. The pages were hand drawn by me. I’m unsure of the company that makes the blank journal.

[@alchemysticgoldmind4164]

Soul of Man... sol(sun) in man Son of Man (Jesus)

[@SteveM-m7r]

What is it that people are ignorant or enlightened about? If it's self, what about self.

[@subrosa4792]

I think it’s much more complicated than that. Some people learn about self through books and videos, others learn about self through intuition. Alan Watts has some great books about getting to know yourself. Best wishes on your journey!

[@erikmeyer2323]

Not regular Masonry.

[@vestland3877]

how come?

[@subrosa4792]

This might be on the esoteric side of things and some people are only aware of the exoteric aspects of Masonry.

[@lvxleather]

These teachings aren't exclusive to Masonry, as any spiritual wisdom is not exclusive to any religion, system, or dogma. People can get what they will out of it.

[@alexchavez3244]

The three men of Hiram abith or three wise men.

[@subrosa4792]

I’m not sure if the 3 initiates correspond to the Hiram Abiff story or to the three Magi of the New Testament. I think they are 3 initiates at different places on their spiritual journey. I find it curious that the book “The Kyballion” is written by “Three Initiates” and I think that’s a reference to this tracing board. Thank you for your comments! I appreciate your input and thank you for watching!

[@alexchavez3244]

Sub Rosa you are right they are the three vices of us that kill our higher self man.

[@westlisbon6307]

Kris

[@subrosa4792]

I’m not sure what your comment means. I thank you for watching, I hope you enjoyed the video! I enjoy getting feedback, feel free to let me know what you thought about the video!

[@westlisbon6307]

@@subrosa4792 good video. Relaxing

[@westlisbon6307]

@@subrosa4792 how do you identify spirituality? As some identify with religion? Are you rosecrucian?

[@Aldrnari]

Are you a Mason yourself? Your interpretation isn't wrong or bad, but a lot of it is very much not Masonic. Bringing the Kybalion, etc., into the interpretation is definitely far removed from ancient/Masonic philosophy. I actually resonate with a lot of the symbolism you're introducing (outside of the New Thought stuff), but just so your viewers know that these interpretations are very much your own, and not what you'd necessarily learn in an actual Masonic lodge.

[@andrmeda5567]

This video is exactly what it seems. Care is the last law of attraction. This is why the freemasons manifest thing's in life such as money. The G in freemason stands for Genere, which is the latin word for Create. Your heart is a generator. When you truly care for something you will generate, create, or manifest conditions you want in live. Humans want conditions. We say we want money, prosperity, peace, fame, health ect. In order to obtain these conditions there are requirements. Requirements exist in order for your conditions to manifest. They dont just magically manifest by themselves. So what are these requirements? Knowledge is required. You need to know certain things. And the freemasons have a lot of knowledge, which i think you interpret them as, people with knowledge. There's a lot more to this. Study the 7 laws of the universe and apply the lost principle which is care. What happens to a seed? It grows. The seed of life, turns into the flower of life. Plant your causes and you will have effects. ~ M.P.

[@thewonderlandcompany]

Isn’t the “board” actually order and disorder? And the pillars aren’t meant to be something that’s sought to achieve. The understanding is nuanced dependent on the features included. Homie, you’re reading an ingredient list and forgot that you gotta cook. Cook, my dude.

[@montestout1006]

As a Master Mason myself , I can assure all , this guy doesn't have a clue to what the secret meanings of our emblems are...hahaha !

[@jessicarangel3436]

what's the meaning? I had the same dream as Jacob story after meditation and Iv'e never read the story until I googled it. Please explain!

[@jessicarangel3436]

@@TruthHurts907 i just started to see the eye on 2 occasions i don’t feel any threat. It was pretty magical! But I forgot to ask who it was but it told me it will come talk to me again. On KZbin someone said it was Saturn and someone else said Jesus.

[@fernandohernandezjr5696]

Cutie at this point anyone could tell you anything. Be vigilant and careful who you take information from. There’s people who are Masterminds and will devour you if your foundation isn’t set straight. Just some friendly advice 🙏

[@vestland3877]

You sound a bit arrogant "brother".