SOLOMON. The king of Israel, and the founder of the temple of Jerusalem and of the temple organization of Freemasonry.
That his mind was eminently symbolic in its propensities, is evident from all the writings that are attributed to him.
SPECULATIVE MASONRY. Freemasonry considered as a science which speculates on the character of God and man, and is engaged in philosophical investigations of the soul and a future existence, for which purpose it uses the terms of an operative art.
It is engaged symbolically in the construction of a spiritual temple.
There is in it always a progress—an advancement from a lower to a higher sphere.
SPIRITUAL TEMPLE. The body of man; that temple alluded to by Christ and St. Paul; the temple, in the construction of which the Speculative Mason is engaged, in contradistinction to that material temple which occupies the labors of the Operative Mason.
SPURIOUS FREEMASONRY OF ANTIQUITY. A term applied to the initiations in the Mysteries of the ancient pagan world, and to the doctrines taught in those Mysteries. See Mysteries.
SQUARE. A geometric figure consisting of four equal sides and equal angles. In Freemasonry it is a symbol of morality, or the strict performance of every duty. The Greeks deemed it a figure of perfection, and the "square man" was a man of unsullied integrity.
SQUARE, TRYING. One of the working-tools of a Fellow Craft, and a symbol of morality.
STONE OF FOUNDATION. A very important symbol in the masonic system. It is like the word, the symbol of divine truth.