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Is the symbolizing process still going on? If so, give examples. Repeat the
examples of the early use of the noose as a symbol given in the text. What is meant
by "A.Q.C."?

How did Operative Lodges use the cable tow and what is meant by "Operative
Lodges"?

How is the cable tow used in English lodges?

How used among us?
II.
How does Mackey define "cable tow"?
The Standard Dictionary?
What is said by the author of this last definition?
How is the term defined by Pike and by Lawrence?
III.
What did the cable tow mean to you during your initiation?
How would you now interpret it?
How does Pike interpret it?
Do you agree with him? If not, why not?
What is Waite's opinion? Paton's? Churchward's?
Give the "obedience theory" of the cable tow.
Give examples of "bad" obedience’s; of "good."
Why does a symbol always have many meanings?
In what sense is this an advantage?
Give a list of symbols, emblems, and symbolical acts in everyday use about you.
IV.
Repeat the author's interpretation. Do you agree with it?
Could you write out your own interpretation?
Give substance of Dr. Buck's interpretation. In what sense are you bound by law as
a candidate is bound by the cable tow?
Is law a thing that gives us liberty or does it take away liberty?
Give examples of other "cable tows" that bind us in everyday life?
How about the ties of friendship? marriage? business contracts?
Does the principle made clear by the interpretation of the cable tow enable you the
better to understand the meaning and use of all human ties?
V.
In actual Masonic practice how do you interpret "the length in your cable tow"?
What does Castello say?
Give Mackey's interpretation. What was the Baltimore Convention?
Would "the length of my cable tow" mean the scope of your ability to
ASSOCIATE with a brother as much as to ASSIST a brother?
should it be given that larger interpretation?