The Fellow Craft degree emphasizes symbolism and allegorical understanding.

Among the allegories peculiar to it, the most striking and important one is that which symbolizes the approach to King Solomon’s Temple, the two pillars, the winding stair and the Middle Chamber.

In this, you received important instructions and learned the wages of a Fellow Craft freemason.

Symbolically, a Fellow Craft is a man in the prime of his life - experienced, strong, resourceful, able to bear, eager to learn, refined and participatory. It is he upon whom a family depends for support. He is the Atlas on whose shoulders rest the main burdens of business. By his skill and support, the arts and society are improved.