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328 BOOK OF THE A. AND A. RITE.
haps at an earlier day by Joshua, or even Moses, tc
suit the genius and manners of the Jewish people,
became Masonry, such as it was practised at the
building of the Temple, and such as it has in part
come down to us. Khfirum, King of Tsui", in Phoe-
nicia, and Khfirum Abai, also a Phoenician and not
a Jew, were likewise initiates ; and hence the inti-
mate connection between them and Solomon, as
Masons. The people of Tsidun, a city of Phoenicia,
were employed by Noah to cut cedars on Mount
Libanus, of which to build the ark, under the super-
intendence of Japhet. His descendants repeopled
Tsidun and Phoenicia, and procured and furnished
the cedar from Lebanon to build the Ark of the
Covenant ; and at a later day his posterity, under
Adon Khurunn, cut in the same forests cedars for
King Solomon ; and at a time still later, they felled
timber on the same mountains to construct the
second temple.
Upon the same mountain the}' established Col-
leges of Artificers, like those in Etruria, and after-
ward at Piome ; from which latter many deduce
Masonry. But the Etrurians, who emigrated from
Assyria to Egypt and afterward to Etruria—better
known as the Hyksos, from Rosen on the Tigris, or
as the Shepherd Kings carried with them the same
mysteries, which went also with them into Phoenicia
and the Etrurian and Eoman CoDeges were in all
respects like those of Mount Libanus. These artifi-
cers everywhere adored the Grand Architect of the
;