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60 Amo Amass A-Muse - Lodge of the Nine Muses

Goddess of the Underworld, Peresephone, she represented Birth, Procreation and Death.

Euterpe was the patroness of Joy and Pleasure, and was supposed to have invented
Wind Instruments.
Erato presided over Lovers. She is supposed to have invented the Lyre and
String Instruments.
Melpomene was the mournful Muse but she seemed to have been the leader of Ladies
Fashions.
Polyhymnia presided over singing and rhetoric and was usually depicted as conducting
an Orchestra.
Thalia was the Comic Muse and presided over Country Festivals. Her dress was
shorter than the others.
Terpsichore presided over dancing which she is supposed to have invented. In those
days, dancing was a religious means of invoking the Gods.
Urania was the Astronomer and Geometrician. The latter is claimed in our
Ancient Charges to have been the same as Masonry.

So you can see that our Nine Muses and Apollo have many characteristics of the
Principles and ‘Tenets of the Craft.
And now, before I sit down, I said at our bicentenary celebrations that we had arrived
at the third Column of Beauty, having passed through those of Wisdom and Strength. We
have started well, thanks to my nephew who has provided us with a beautiful arrangement
for our Warrant and its attachments and replicas with a case for our Jewels. May I suggest
two further Beautifications of a physical nature which you may consider worth while.
The first is to take coloured photographs of the paintings by Cipriani on the four sides
of the bases of our Candlesticks before they are further damaged . Secondly, to obtain
a matched Colour Photograph of the Portrait of our Founder Ruspini, painted by the
Grand Portrait Painter, the Rev. W. Peters, Provincial Grand Master for Lincolnshire which
hangs in the Conference Room at the R.M.I.G., to match that of Cipriani our first
candidate. However it is the spiritual beautification which is far more important, to adorn
the Lodge with every moral and social virtue.

P.J.D. September 1982