1. Bro. S. W. are you a F. C.
So taken and accepted among
F. Cs.
2. Where was you passed as such,
In a L. of F. Cs.
3. Consisting of how many,
F . . . e.
4. Under what denomination,
The Master, and Wardens, and
two F. Cs.
5. What enabled you to be
passed,
By taking a F. Cs. O.
6. After that great and solemn O.
what was then demanded of you,
To confirm the same in the
usual manner among Brethren in a L. of F. Cs.
7. What did the Master then do,
Friendly took me by the r .
. . h . . . and said, rise,
newly O., F. C.
8. Why the r . . . h . . .
To make a proper distinction
between that and the first degree.
9. Was you entrusted with
anything,
Certainly was.
10.
What was it,
The S., T. and W. of a F. C.
[Browne].
11. Give the S. in due form,
It’s complied with in due form.
12. The T. the same,
In nearly the same manner.
13. The W. with discretion,
With discretion.
14. In what part of the L. was you
then placed,
In the S. E.
15. Why so,
To convince me that Masonry
is a progressive Science, and that that was the p - - - p - - - [proper place?]
for the newly initiated F. Cs.
16. What did you there receive,
That excellent charge
peculiar to such a situation.
17. Please to repeat the charge,
Here follows the particulars relating to such situation and
circumstance.
18. What was you farther [sic]
exhorted to,
Representing at that time an
emblem of integrity, strongly enforced a due observance to its moral
precepts [sic].
1. Bro. S. W. for why was you made a
F. C.
For the letter G.
2. What does that denote,
Geometry.
3. What is Geometry.
A science which finds out
the contents of bodies unmeasured, by comparing them to those already
measured. [?]
4. What are its proper subjects,
Magnitude and
extension.
5. Where was Geometry first
founded.
At Alexandria in
Egypt.
6. Why there,
The River Nile having
overflowed its banks, caused the inhabitants to retire into the interior
part of the country;
when
the waters had subsided, they returned to their native homes, but the fury
of the waves having washed away most of their landmarks, caused many
disputes amongst them, which often terminated in war. At length, hearing
there was a Lodge of Masons held at Alexandria, in
Egypt, over which Euclid presided, they therefore went and
laid their complaints before him;
he,
with the assistance of his Wardens and Brethren, gathered together the
scattered fragments of Geometry, and brought them into a regular system,
by which means he taught them how to ascertain their different tracks
[sic]
of land, which put an end to their
disputes, and terminated their wars.
7. Did you ever travel,
My forefathers have.
8. Where did they travel, and what
for,
Those who went E, were for
instruction, and when W, to propagate the same to various parts of the
world.
9. Did you ever work as a Mason,
My antient Brethren
have.
10. Where did they work,
t the building of K. S. T.,
and many other stately edifices.
11. How long did they work,
Six days.
12. Why not on the seventh,
Because the Almighty has
strictly commanded that day to be kept holy.
13. Being by their work entitled to
receive wages where did they go to receive them,
Into the M. C. of K. S.
T.
14. How did they get there,
By the entrance of a P.
15. Did they see anything at the
entrance of that P. that particularly struck their attention,
They did: two g . . . t
Ps.
16. What called,
- - - -, - - - -, or - - - -. and - - - -.
17. What was that on the . . . .
.
- - - -.
18. What does it denote,
To establish.
19. What was that on the . . . .
- - - -.
20. What denote,
Strength.
21. When united what,
Stability, for God said in
my strength I establish this my House to stand firm.
22. How high were they,
35 Cubits.
23. How much in circumference,
12.
24. How much in Diameter,
4.
25. Where [were] they hollow or
solid,
Hollow.
26. Why so,
The better to serve as
Archives to Masonry, and to hold the Constitutional Rolls.
27. What substance [thickness?] was
the outer rim,
4 Inches, or a hand’s
breadth.
28. What made of,
Molten or cast brass.
29. Where Cast,
In the clayey ground, between Succoth
[and]
Zeredathah, where K. S. ordered
them and all his holy Vessels to be cast.
30. Who had the superintendance of
their Casting,
H. A. B. the widow’s son, of
the tribe of Nephtali.
31. What adorned with,
Two Chappiters, one on
each.
32. How high where [were] those
Chappiters,
5 Cubits.
33. What enriched them,
Lily-work, Net-work, and
Pomegranates.
34. How many rows of pomegranates were
there,
Two Rows.
35. How many upon each row,
100 on each.
36. Were they further adorned with any
thing.
Two spherical, or round
balls.
37. What was delineated thereon,
Maps of the Celestial and
Terrestrial Globes.
38. What do they point out to us,
Universal Masonry.
39. When were they finished,
When the Net Work was thrown
over.
40. Why were they place at the
entrance of the P., and what do they further represent,
The first represents that
remarkable cloud of fire, which proved a light and guide to the
Israelites in their
escape from their Egyptian
oppression;
the
other represents that cloud which proved the destruction of Pharoah
[sic]
and his host, in their attempt
to follow them. Our noble and illustrious G. M. thought he could not place
them in a more conspicuous place, whereby the Jews might ever have
that memorable event in recollection, both in going in and coming
out from divine worship.
41. After having passed them where did
they next arrive,
At the foot of a winding stair
case.
42. Did they meet with any farther
[sic] obstruction,
They did.
43. What was it,
The antient J. W., who
guarded the same.
44. What did he demand of them,
The secrets of a F. C.
45. After giving that wished for
satisfaction, what answer did they receive,
Pass Brother F. C.
46. Where did they then [pass]
to,
Up this winding stair
case.
47. Consisting of how many S . . .
s,
[Three, five, seven or eleven. -- Vancouver].
48. Why three,
Because that number R . . .
s a L.
49. Why five,
H . . . s a L.
50. Why seven,
Makes it perfect.
51. Why eleven,
In allusion to our Saviour’s
Aposles [sic], for when
Judas betrayed his Lord and Master, there were only eleven
remaining - - - [ The Vancouver MS. here adds: “and they held
their Lodge without him.” -- A. H.]
likewise a second reason, in allusion
to the antient Patriarchs, for when Joseph was sold by his brethren
to the Ishmaelites, there were only eleven remaining.
52. Who are the three that r . .
e a L.,
The Master and Wardens.
53. Why does three r . . . e a L.
In allusion to the three
grand Masters which bore sway at the building of K. S. T., which were
SKI HKT
HAB.
54. Who are five that h . . . d it,
[ Answer omitted, through a typographical error in numbering the
questions and answers. Emulation, Browne, and ,
Vancouver has: “The W.
M., two Ws., and two F. Cs.” ]
55. Why do five h . . . d a L.,
In allusion to the five
noble orders in Architecture.
56. Name them,
Architecture
is the art of building edifices proper for habitation or defence, etc. -
-
Architecture
is scarce inferior to any of the arts in point of antiquity;
nature
and necessity taught the first inhabitants of the earth to build
themselves huts, tents and cottages, from which, in stately habitations,
with a variety of ornaments, proportions, etc. --
Antient
writers represent the Tyrians as the first among whom
architecture was carried to any tolerable pitch, and hence it was
that our Grand Master, King Solomon, had recourse to them for
workmen to build his Temple. - -
The
three branches of architecture are denominated Civil,
Military, and Naval. --
Every
Freemason well knows the great utility of Naval
Architecture
at the building of King Solomon’s
Temple, in building Ships to traffic to Ophir for
gold, ivory, and jewels, to beautify and adorn the
Temple.
57. Explain the Tuscan,
The Tuscan, the first of the five orders in
Architecture, is the most simple and massive, and is seven
diameters high;
it
is called by Vitruvius the Rustic Order, to be used properly in
country houses and palaces;
in
Viagnola’s manner of composition it is a beauty even in its
simplicity, and as such should find place not only in private edifices,
but likewise in public ones, as in the piazzas of squares and markets, in
the magazines and granaries of cities, and even in the offices and lower
apartments of palaces.
The
Tuscan Order takes its name from an antient people of takes its name from an antient
people of Lydia, who coming out of Asia to people
Tuscany first executed it in some Temples which they built in their
new plantations.
58. The Doric,
The Doric is the
second of the five orders, and is that between the Tuscan and
Ionic. As for the invention of the Doric Order the tradition
is, the Dorus, king of Achaia, having first built a temple
of this order at Argos, which he dedicated to Juno,
occasioned it to be called Doric; though others derive its name
from its being invented or used by the Dorians.
It
is the most natural and best proportioned of all the orders, all its parts
being founded on the natural position of solid bodies:
at
the first invention it was more simple than at present, and when in
process of time they came to adorn and enrich it more, the appellation
Doric was restrained to its richer Manner, and the primitive simple
manner they called by a new name, the Tuscan Order. Some time after
its invention, they reduced it to the proportion, strength,
and beauty, of the body of a man;
hence
as the foot of a man was judged the sixth part of his height, they made
the Doric column, including the capital, six diameters high;
afterwards
they added another diameter to the height, and made it seven
diameters, with which augmentation it might be said to be near the
proportion of a man, the human foot, at least in our days, not being a
sixth, but nearly a seventh part of the body.
The
characters of the Doric Order, as now managed, are the height of
its column, which is eight diameters. The moderns, on account of
its solidity, use it in large strong buildings, as in the gates of cities
and citadels, the outsides of churches, and other massy work, where
delicacy of ornament would be unsuitable.
59. The Ionic,
The Ionic is the
third in order, and is distinguished from the Composite, in that it
has none of the leaves of the Acanthus in its capital;
from
the Tuscan, Doric, and Corinthian, by the volutes or
rams horns, which adorn its capital; and from the Tuscan too, by
the channels or flutings in its shaft.
The
Ionic Order owes its origin to Ionia, a province of
Asia; and, it is said, the Temple of Diana at Ephesus, the most
celebrated edifice of all antiquity, was of this order. The Ionic
has an advantage above any of the rest, and consists in this, that the
fore and hind parts of its capital are different from its sides;
but
this is attended with an inconvenience when the ordonnance [?] is to turn
from the front of the building to its sides; to obviate which, the capital
may be made angular, as is done in the Temple of Fortune Virilis.
This
column is a medium between the massive and delicate orders, the simple and
the rich. Its height is eighteen modules, and nine diameters of the
Column, taken at the bottom. Then it was first invented its height was
sixteen modules, but the ancients, to render it still more beautiful than
the Doric, augmented its height by adding a base to it, which was
unknown in the Doric. --
At
present the Ionic Order is properly used in churches and religious
houses, in courts of justice, and other places of supposed tranquility and
devotion, as well as Freemasons’ properly erected, well-formed,
regular constituted Lodges.
60. The Corinthian,
The Corinthian is the
noblest, richest, and most delicate of them all, and is ten diameters
high. This order is said to be invented by the antients, but
Callimachus, a Corinthian Sculptor, is thought by most of
the modern writers to have been the inventor of this order of
Architecture, and that passing by the tomb of a young lady,
over which her nurse had placed a basket with some of her toys, and
covered it up from the weather with a tile;
the
whole having been placed over a root of Acanthus, as the root
sprung up it encompassed the basket, till arriving at the tile it met with
an obstruction and bent downwards under the tile, forming a kind of
volutes, and the tile in the abachus of his order. --
Villanmandus
supposes the Corinthian capital to have taken its origin from an
order in Solomon’s Temple, the leaves whereof were those of the
palm tree.
61. The Composite, or roman
order,
The Composite (so
called from its capital being composed out of the other orders) is the
last of the five orders of Architecture;
it
borrows a quarter round from the Tuscan and Doric, a double
row of leaves from the Corinthian, and volutes from the
Ionic; its cornice has simple modillons or dentils.
The
Composite is also called the Roman and Italic Order,
as having been invented by the Romans conformable to the rest,
which are denominated from the people among whom they had their rise.
62. Explain the rise of the
Orders,
The antient and original
order of Architecture were no more than three. To these orders the
Romans added two others, the Tuscan, which they made plainer
that the Doric, and the Composite, which was more
ornamental, if not more beautiful, than the Corinthian.
We
have still, properly speaking, only three orders in Architecture
that shew invention and particular characters, and these are particularly
revered by Freemasons. They essentially differ from each other, the
other two having nothing but what is borro
