Past Master, or Fifth Degree | Chapter 5
p. 184 THIS degree in Masonry was instituted to try the qualifications of a Master Mason before becoming Master of a Lodge, and no Mason can constitutionally preside over a Lodge of Master Masons unless he has been admitted to this Degree. A Mason usually takes this...Most Excellent Master, or Sixth Degree | Chapter 6
p. 200 No Mason can receive the Degree of Most Excellent Master until after he has become a Past Master, and presided in a Lodge, or, in other words, been inducted into the Oriental Chair of King Solomon. When the Temple of Jerusalem was finished,1 those who had...Royal Arch, or Seventh Degree | Chapter 7
p. 217 THE Royal Arch Degree seems not to have been known to what are called modern Masons as late as about 1750. That portion of the old Freemasons who met at the famous Apple-Tree Tavern, in 1717, and formed the society upon somewhat new principles, that is, so far...Extracts from “A Dictionary of Symbolical Masonry, including the Royal Arch Degree,” by the Rev. G. Oliver, D. D | Chapter 8
p. 266 ACHILLES.–Perhaps some worthy people may stare when we point out Achilles as a Freemason. What! we hear them ex-claim, is it possible that that fierce and ferocious man-slayer, nay, man-eater at heart, for he exhibited a strong propensity to cannibalism...Appendix
p. 271 NOTE A, page 12.–In some Lodges the Tyler takes the sword from the altar. NOTE B, page 18.–Some Masters repeat the words, “O Lord my God,” three times. NOTE C, page 19–Masters differ about the proper manner of placing the three...About the Gnostic Warrior
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