Here is the Tree of Life turned into a ladder and the bottom 3 rungs relate fairly well to the 3 degrees of craft Masonry, and rather more closely to the first 3 inner initiations that deal with the physical, emotional and mental planes.
>Has anyone felt like these different forces were invoked upon them through the journey of progress through the degrees?
We had a candidate for initiation a few months ago who said she felt bigger after the ceremony and that was true as I had observed the Light from on high flowing into her during the obligation and it made her light body noticeably larger
I have not had any reports I recall from the passing, but I recall my own 3rd during which I had an apparent memory of being carried out of a church in a coffin. I have never been keen on coffins. I am just too claustrophobic to be comfortable when the lid is closed.
I do recall an elderly Mason who told me that one time during a ceremony she was given the working tools at the JW pedestal and the energy in them nearly knocked her over. She was rather small.