Ladder thisAhour ang (3B direct your works and your Steps.) towards the glory of God, ¢ vwithan ardent Mie angelebring | them (your works) before God. ut above all.) A. Sucqut, Via Ancwore, 1625 (Orus Macnum: Ladder (Opus Macnum: Ladder Ladder the mysteries of Freemasonry it basedon the three Great Lights Bible, compass zon, The over The female fg ures Faith, Hope Degree Boar, 1819Ladder White the ascent onthe apprentice board leads srsight up alag er az an expres {on ofthe original ‘il, following a more advances level ofthe jour: reyman, who we nowhaveiea form ofa seven step spiral staie case, inwhich itis no longer clear were the begin hing and end ar. “This expresses the slow and organic cours of the process of pir itul maturity. ‘One image of his Istheearofcom ‘growing beside theendless river oflife 1. Bowring, Second Degree Boar, 1619 298 (Opus Macnum: Ladder BEE SSS = (Opus Macnum: Ladder Ladder ‘The two columns ‘of lachin and Boas indicate chat we sre now inside the temple of Solo: stepssymboize the seven phases ofthe process, the ‘even levels of consciousness and theseven liberal Mare everyting fide chambers of holyof holies a thecentre only scores itself wen One has come of Two" and ‘the portal of death and corruption hasbeen rose. (ehp.223) F Curtis, Work Chareforthe and Love, 801Ladder improvement makes sight roads; but the without improve: of Genius (wsike, Marriage af Heaven and Hel, 1793) Ph.0. Runge, Perspekiviche onstruction einer Wendshrepoe W. Blake, The Gates of Paracse, 1793 236 (Opus Macnum: Ladder ‘Onus Macnun: Ladder Ladder ‘ladder appeared tolacebina ‘dream, “and the top ofitreaches toheaven: and the angels of God were going up and ‘down onit (Genesis 28, 2) For Blake, thei age of Jacob's Udder asa gate soheaven wae eloselyalied to ‘theanstomy of the ear, whose passages he calls tne endlessly Heaven of Heavene (:)" According to Swedenborg, with winore writings Blake was familie, the “opening of| the ier ear” for aking contact with thehigher W.Bloe,Jcob’s Ladder 3800 297