February

FEBRUARY

The month of February, the third month of the winter season, is the second month of the year. 

Before the re-arrangement of the Roman Calendar by the Emperor Numa Pompilius, March was the first month of  the ten months of the year, and December was the last.  Our second month February receives its name from a Latin word which means “to Purify”, for in this month, people purified their homes and made sacrifices to the gods who loved order and cleanliness. 

The old tradition assigns the amethyst as the jewel and the primrose as the flower of this month.

Pisces – the fishes

The approach of the resumption of agricultural labors was commemorated by a mystical association with fishes as a sign of life after death.  The sun was then found among the stars of the fishes. 

Of the twelve tribes of Israel, it is probable that the tribe of Simeon and Levi bore the zodiacal sign of  Pisces as their tribal emblem, when they entered the promised land. 

The Number two:

In created things, it is the generative number.

The Duad:

Cain and Abel:

Good and Evil:

Right and Left:

Life and Death:

Day and Night:

Jachin and Boaz:

Man and Woman:

Earth and Heaven:

Surface and Center:

Light and Darkness:

Sunshine and Shadow:

The Symbol of Antagonism:

The Active and the Passive:

The Two Wardens of the Lodge:

The Female Principle in Nature:

Two Words of Two Syllables Each:

*** Excerpt from “The Master’s Lectures as delivered in Evans Lodge #524, Dec. 1923