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masonry dissected
FELLOW-CRAFT'S DEGREE
chapter II
Samuel Prichard
Q. Are you a
Fellow-Craft?
A. I am.
Q. Why was you made a
Fellow-Craft?
A. For the sake of the Letter G.
Q. What does
the G denote?
A. Geometry, or the fifth Science.
Q. Did you
ever travel?
A. Yes. East and West.
Q. Did you ever
work?
A. Yes, in the Building of the Temple.
Q. Where did you
receive your Wages?
A. In the middle Chamber.
Q. How came you
to the middle Chamber?
A. Through the Porch.
Q. When you came
through the Porch, what did you see?
A. Two great Pillars.
Q.
What are they called?
A. J. B. Jachim and Boaz.
Q. How high
are they?
A. Eighteen Cubits.
Q. How much in
Circumference?
A. Twelve Cubits.
Q. What were they adorn'd
with?
A. Two Chapiters.
Q. How high were the Chapiters?
A.
Five Cubits.
Q. What were they adorn'd with?
A. Net-Work and
Pomegranates.
Q. How came you to the middle Chamber?
A. By a
winding Pair of Stairs.
Q. How many?
A. Seven or more.
Q.
Why Seven or more?
A. Because Seven or more makes a Just and
Perfect Lodge.
Q. When you came to the door of the middle
Chamber, who did you see?
A. A Warden.
Q. What did he demand
of you?
A. Three Things.
Q. What were they?
A. Sign, Token
and a Word.
N.B. The Sign is placing the Right Hand on the Left
Breast, the Token is by joining you Right Hand to the Person that
demands it, and squeezing him with the Ball of your Thumb on the
first Knuckle of the middle Finger, and the Word is Jachin.
Q.
How high was the Door of the middle Chamber?
A. So high that a
Cowan could not reach to stick a Pin in.
Q. When you came into
the middle, what did you see?
A. The Resemblance of the Letter
G.
Q. Who doth that G denote?
A. Vide I Kings, Chap. 7.One
that's greater than you.
Q. Who's greater than I, That am a Free
and Accepted Mason, the Master of a Lodge.
A. The Grand
Architect and Contriver of the Universe, or He that was taken up
to the top of the Pinnacle of the Holy Temple.
Q. Can you
repeat the Letter G?
A. I'll do my Endeavour.
THE REPEATING OF
THE LETTER G.
Resp. In the midst of Solomon's Temple there stands
a G, A Letter fair for all to read and see, But few there be
that understands What means that Letter G.
Ex. My Fiend, if
you pretend to be Of this Fraternity, You can forthwith and
rightly tell What means that Letter G.
Resp. By Sciences are
brought to Light Bodies of various Kinds, Which do appear to
perfect Sight; But none but Males shall know my Mind.
Ex. The
Right shall.
Resp. If Worshipful.
Ex. Both Right and Worshipful I
am, To Hail you I have Command, That you do forthwith let me
know, As I you may understand.
Resp. By Letters Four and
Science Five This G aright doth stand, In a due Art and
Proportion, You have your Answer, Friend.
N.B. Four Letters
are Boaz. Fifth Science Geometry.
Ex. My Friend, you answer
well, If Right and Free Principles you discover, I'll change
your Name from Friend, And henceforth call you Brother.
Resp.
The Sciences are well compos'd Of noble Structure's Verse, A
Point, a Line, and an Outside; But a Solid is the last.
Ex.
God's good Greeting be to this our happy Meeting.
Resp. And all
the Right Worshipful Brothers and Fellows.
Ex. Of the Right
Worshipful and Holy Lodge of St. John's.
Resp. From whence I
came.
Ex. Greet you, greet you, greet you thrice, heartily well,
craving your Name.
Resp. Timothy Ridicule.
Exam. Welcome,
Brother, by the Grace of God.
N.B. The Reason why they Denominate
Themselves of the Holy Lodge of St. John's, is, Because he was
the Fore-runner of our Saviour, and laid the first Parallel Line
to the Gospel (others do assert, that our Saviour himself was
accepted a Free-Mason whilst he was in the Flesh) but how
ridiculous and prophane it seems, I leave to judicious Readers to
consider.
The End of the Fellow-Craft Part.
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