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meaning."--The Freemason's Treasury, p. 301.
124:1 Can any living Mason be simple enough to
believe that Dr. Anderson, in his "Defence of
Masonry," intended to prove a real historical fact
when he explained the exhumation of the body of
H. A. B.? Why, it is well known that the
celebrated artist was living at Tyre many years
after the Temple was completed.--The
Freemason's Treasury, p. 291.
126:1 Among such a vast concourse of people as
were assembled together at the construction of
this edifice, it is natural to expect every variety of
propensities, both good and evil. Accordingly our
traditions furnish in stances, both among the
Apprentices and Craftsmen, of treachery-violation
of sacred pledges--and the commission
of actual crime. . . These instances, some of
which have been thought worthy of preservation
in the ineffable Degrees, were not numerous. . .
From the above causes. however, the connection
of the widow's son with the building of the
Temple was endeared to the two monarchs; and,
to preserve and consecrate his memory, a new
arrangement of discipline was adopted; and a
legend incorporated into the system, which
served to promote a similar object with the
fabulous narrative used in the spurious initiations,
viz., to inculcate and impress on the candidate's
mind the doctrine of a resurrection and a future
state--Theo. Phil., p. 232.
None but he who has visited the Holy of Holies,
and travelled the road of peril, can have any
conception of the mysteries unfolded in this
degree. . The MASTER MASON represents a
man under the doctrine of love, saved from the
grave of iniquity, and raised to the faith of
salvation. p. 127 It testifies our faith in the