Duncan's Ritual of Freemasonry.pdf - FatimaMovement

The traditional account of the death, several
burials, and resurrections of one of the craft,
Hiram Abiff, the widow's son, as developed in
conferring this Degree, is very interesting.
We read in the Bible, that Hiram Abiff was one
of the head workmen employed at the building of
King Solomon's Temple, and other ancient
writings inform us that he was an arbiter between
King Solomon and Hiram, king of Tyre; but his
tragical death is nowhere recorded, except in the
archives of Freemasonry. Not even the Bible, the
writings of Josephus, nor any other writings,
however ancient, of which we have any
knowledge, furnish any information respecting
his death. It is very singular, that
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a man so celebrated as Hiram Abiff was,
universally acknowledged as the third most
distinguished man then living, and, in many
respects, the greatest man in the world, should
pass from off the stage of action, in the presence
of King Solomon, three thousand three hundred
grand overseers, and one hundred and fifty
thousand workmen, with whom he had spent a
number of years, and with King Solomon, his
bosom friend, without any of his numerous
confrères even recording his death, or any thing
about
it.
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