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GRAND MASTER ARCHITECT.
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T.\ P.: Such are the instruments of a Grand
Master Architect, and such the lessons which they
teach us.
Forget not that you have solemnly sworn
to practise all the virtues which they symbolically
teach ; for thus only can you deserve, how proudly
soever you may wear the title of a Grand Master
Architect.
HISTORY.
The history of this degree is brief, as its ceremonies
are simple. After the murderers of the Master
Khurum Abai had been discovered, apprehended,
tried, and punished, his monument and mausoleum
completed, and the matters which concerned the
revenue of the realm provided for, King Solomon, to
assure uniformity of work and vigor in its prosecu-
tion, and to reward the superior and eminent science
and skill of Adoniram, the son of Abda, appointed
him to be chief Architect of the Temple, with the
title of Grand Master Architect, and invested him
with that office, as sole successor and representative
of the deceased Master Khurum Abai, and at the
same time made him Grand Master of Masons and
the Masonic peer of himself and King Khurum of
Tsfir.
Afterward the title was conferred upon other
Princes of the Jewish court as an honorarium, and
thus the degree became established. You have
heard what are the lessons taught by the working
instruments of a Grand Master Architect, and I shall
not now enlarge upon those lessons. The great du-